Publications

Journal articles

Online obituaries as a complementary source of data for mortality in Canada
Demographic Research, 53(22), 661–704, 2025.
Pietro Violo and Nadine Ouellette

Research reports

Abordabilité de l’habitation chez les jeunes au Québec
Research report, Force Jeunesse, 2025.
Alexandre Petitclerc, Alexandrine Beauvais Lamoureux and Pietro Violo

Book chapters

Les aspects démographiques et épidémiologiques du vieillissement de la population du Québec
In Précis pratique de gériatrie, 4e édition (dir. Marcel Arcand et Réjean Hébert). Québec : Edisem, 2022.
Marie-Jeanne Kergoat, Jacques Légaré and Pietro Violo

Talks

2025

30th International Population Conference, Brisbane, Australia
The Last Social Network: Machine Learning Insights into Online Obituaries and Longevity
Pietro Violo, Marília Nepomuceno, Risto Conte Keivabu and Nadine Ouellette

BSPS Annual Conference, Swansea, United Kingdom
Online Obituaries for Mortality Monitoring
Pietro Violo, Marília Nepomuceno, Risto Conte Keivabu and Nadine Ouellette

Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Automating Data Extraction from Unstructured and Semi-Structured Texts (guest lecture)
Pietro Violo

2024

Population Association of America 2024, Columbus, United States
Generating Lifespan Indicators from Online Obituaries
Pietro Violo and Nadine Ouellette

Demystifying ML (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research), Rostock, Germany
Machine Learning in Mortality
Pietro Violo

2023

Population Association of America 2023, New Orleans, United States
The Usage of Obituaries as an Alternative Data Source for Mortality
Pietro Violo and Nadine Ouellette

Canadian Population Society 2023, Toronto, Canada
The Usage of Obituaries as an Alternative Data Source for Mortality
Pietro Violo and Nadine Ouellette

Colloque de l’Association des démographes du Québec 2023, Montreal, Canada
Les nécrologies comme source de données pour étudier la mortalité au Québec
Pietro Violo and Nadine Ouellette

2022

Colloque de l’Association des démographes du Québec 2022, Montreal, Canada
Modélisation des déterminants contextuels de l’accroissement de l’âge modal au décès
Nadine Ouellette, Marielle Côté-Gendreau and Pietro Violo

European Population Conference 2022, Groningen, Netherlands
Sex Differences in COVID-19 Mortality in the United States: A State-Level Analysis
Simona Bignami, Pietro Violo, Timothy Riffe, Enrique Acosta and Daniela Ghio

Population Association of America 2022, Atlanta, United States
Sex Differences in COVID-19 Mortality in the United States: A State-Level Analysis
Simona Bignami, Pietro Violo, Timothy Riffe, Enrique Acosta and Daniela Ghio

Population Association of America 2022, Atlanta, United States
Modeling Contextual Determinants of Rising Adult Modal Age at Death in High-Income Countries
Nadine Ouellette, Marielle Côté-Gendreau and Pietro Violo