Initials of German verbs
An personal empirical measurement
data
OpenCoesione, progetti conclusi e costi
Looking at the differences between predicted and effective realisation
The EU Cohesion Policy projects in Italy - first card
Looking at the differences between predicted and effective realisation
Italian main dishes round 2 - combinations
A follow-up from the previous card
The ingredients of Italian main dishes
Looking at Italian recipes with a data lens.
A journey through Caravaggio’s colours, in data
Analysing colours in Caravaggio’s art.
The New Year’s concert in Vienna
Strauss galore, but there’s some more
Michelin restaurants & stars by country
Who has more stars, and what about the type of cuisine?
Wealth and inequality
A journey from country to country, in data.
Books I’ve read - in the ages
Simple counts on my list of reads - July 2023
Best of the ’80s (in music) again
This time, looking at musical careers
Oh the ’80s, we still love the music
The most popular 80s tracks from Spotify, in data
Italy and the shape of pasta
Much more variety than you may know of.
Do we know our cooking fats and oils?
A lipidic data journey.
The EU of working women
The 8th of March and where we’re at, some data.
Romance Languages, so near, so far
How far apart these languages are, in data.
Cocktails, spirits & data
Looking at the IBA cocktails, in data.
2022, annus horribilis
The year climate change went mainstream.
Christmas keeps upping the movies game
The choice of festive movies is larger and larger, in data
Not just Martinis
What did James Bond drink, in data.
New England Recipes, circa 1900
A lot of sugar and a data story.
Dickens’ “Pictures from Italy”, a Victorian travelogue
Going with Dickens on a tour of Italy, a data card.
Low-emission bus fleets in cities, a data card
Looking at data about the share of low-emission buses in fleets from specific cities
The most frequently used keys in Classical era music
Exploring the favourite keys used by composers of the Classical era, in data.
A journey through Renoir’s colours, in data
Analysing colours in Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s art.
The Svalbard seed vault, a data preparation example
A walkthrough example of gathering data and preparing it ahead of analysis and display, with detailed steps.
The world records in freestyle swimming, in data
The world records in freestyle swimming, for men and women, a data card.
Viral families and viral species, a data card
Building the landscape of viral families and species in a data viz
The various types of vaccines under work for COVID-19
Several of the candidates under work for a COVID-19 vaccine use methods and technologies which are novel and not used yet in existing vaccines.
Running for a COVID-19 vaccine - research at turbo speed
Looking at the volume of candidate vaccines against COVID-19 and their progress in pre-clinical and clinical phases, in time
How much has the media reported about climate change?
Looking at the volume of stories about climate change in the media to assess how this area has been discussed historically, a case from the New York Times.
Stories around the frequency of tags on Stack Overflow
We analysed how the frequency of tags on Stack Overflow behaves, what are the relevant distributions, whether the age of a tag has an effect and what part do...
The average meaning of average
How the word average is used in regular talk and how to interpret and calculate it best
English stopwords and Python libraries
Stopwords in English and finding them in NLP libraries
The growth of vocabulary in different languages, reloaded
The Heaps’ law in different languages from Wikipedia text data
The growth of vocabulary in different languages
Studying the Heaps’ law in different languages from NLTK Corpora
I messaggi di fine anno dei presidenti della Repubblica: alcune parole specifiche
Data visualisation sulle parole usate dai presidenti della Repubblica nei discorsi di fine anno, continuazione su parole specifiche
I messaggi di fine anno dei presidenti della Repubblica: divertissements sui testi
Data visualisation sulle parole usate dai presidenti della Repubblica nei discorsi di fine anno
My PhD thesis, some analytics
Data visualisation over the text of my PhD thesis on language evolution
tech
Building myself a tool to summarise AI papers with Gemini
And little learnings along the way.
A simple movie recommender based on similarity
Piggy-backing an idea from fast.ai
Using Claude to classify EU Cohesion Policy data
Passing long lists of texts to categorise
A brief look at the interact IPython widget!
Playing with maths with Jupyter interactivity.
Python & Antigravity
Python’s antigravity package explored
Some basic tips on using the command line for data work
A list of easy command line commands to facilitate data work
Counting the unique values in Sheets rows with comma-separated items
In a Google Sheet, count the number of times a term appears in rows where one column has a comma-separated list
TensorFlow, creating the training set for object detection
Creating files for training object detection models in TensorFlow
Customise your shell for speed with Oh My ZSH!
Make your terminal beautiful and efficient with Oh My ZSH!
A very shallow overview of YOLO and Darknet
Looking at YOLO and Darknet as neural network frameworks for object detection
Getting started with Google Cloud
I’ve learned a bit about Google Cloud by tinkering on it to run a little job, this post outlines the steps and an overview of the platform.
Rallying into D3
Following a path to learn D3 for data visualisation
English stopwords and Python libraries
Stopwords in English and finding them in NLP libraries
How I managed to install OpenCV3 with Python3 bindings on a macOS
Installing OpenCV3 with Python3 bindings on macOS, the ultimate guide
Jupyter goodness
Learning to make the most of Jupyter notebooks
Plotting the actual frequencies in a FreqDist in NLTK
How to plot the real frequency of occurrence of text with NLTK
Interacting with a DynamoDB via boto3
Python for querying a DynamoDB in AWS with boto3
Python for (some) Elasticsearch queries
Using Python for querying Elasticsearch
Break it to get it: class and instance attributes in Python
Exploring the difference between class and instance attributes in Python
Some Matplotlib idiosyncrasies
Some basics on how to use matplotlib for plotting data
excursus
Gambling, probability and Bernoulli trials
Exploring some of the simple concepts in the early theory of probability
Artificial neurons and logical tables
Looking at truth tables via the McCulloch-Pitts unit
Entropy, data and Machine Learning
The concept of entropy and how can it be useful in a classification problem.
Power laws, beautiful and damned
A quick overview of what they are and what they describe.
Dissecting the Gradient descent method
Digging into this foundational piece of machinery
meta
Bar charts, so popular, so abused
Exploring some ways to make better use of bar charts in data viz