Dickens’ “Pictures from Italy”, a Victorian travelogue
Going with Dickens on a tour of Italy, a data card.
Going with Dickens on a tour of Italy, a data card.
Looking at data about the share of low-emission buses in fleets from specific cities
Exploring the favourite keys used by composers of the Classical era, in data.
Analysing colours in Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s art.
A walkthrough example of gathering data and preparing it ahead of analysis and display, with detailed steps.
The world records in freestyle swimming, for men and women, a data card.
Helping others outside the data team to use data is a valuable thing to do, as a data scientist
What is the best way to perform a technical interview for a data science position?
And how to avoid them
Or how the data science advocacy unfolds
Building the landscape of viral families and species in a data viz
A list of easy command line commands to facilitate data work
Data Science has been around for a while now, but how has it evolved in time? Notes from a debate.
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.
Looking at the volume of candidate vaccines against COVID-19 and their progress in pre-clinical and clinical phases, in time
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.
PyDataEdinburgh, the first birthday
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...
How the word average is used in regular talk and how to interpret and calculate it best
The evolving field of data science, from the trench, and what is the sense of it all
Getting into #SoDS
The Heaps’ law in different languages from Wikipedia text data
Studying the Heaps’ law in different languages from NLTK Corpora
Data visualisation sulle parole usate dai presidenti della Repubblica nei discorsi di fine anno, continuazione su parole specifiche
Data visualisation sulle parole usate dai presidenti della Repubblica nei discorsi di fine anno
Data visualisation over the text of my PhD thesis on language evolution
Data visualisation sui dati del treno Roma-Tivoli e viceversa
Python’s antigravity package explored
PyDataEdinburgh, the first birthday
Stopwords in English and finding them in NLP libraries
Installing OpenCV3 with Python3 bindings on macOS, the ultimate guide
Learning to make the most of Jupyter notebooks
How to plot the real frequency of occurrence of text with NLTK
Python for querying a DynamoDB in AWS with boto3
Using Python for querying Elasticsearch
Exploring the difference between class and instance attributes in Python
Some basics on how to use matplotlib for plotting data
A tutorial on the Gradient Descent method, done from scratch
Helping others outside the data team to use data is a valuable thing to do, as a data scientist
What is the best way to perform a technical interview for a data science position?
And how to avoid them
Or how the data science advocacy unfolds
Data Science has been around for a while now, but how has it evolved in time? Notes from a debate.
The evolving field of data science, from the trench, and what is the sense of it all
Getting into #SoDS
How not to use machine learning: to make recipes
Make your terminal beautiful and efficient with Oh My ZSH!
Learning to make the most of Jupyter notebooks
How to plot the real frequency of occurrence of text with NLTK
Python for querying a DynamoDB in AWS with boto3
Using Python for querying Elasticsearch
Exploring the difference between class and instance attributes in Python
Some basics on how to use matplotlib for plotting data
A tutorial on the Gradient Descent method, done from scratch
Da autodidatta, costruire due band e arrangiare brani
Data visualisation sulle parole usate dai presidenti della Repubblica nei discorsi di fine anno, continuazione su parole specifiche
Data visualisation sulle parole usate dai presidenti della Repubblica nei discorsi di fine anno
Recensione de ‘Storia di una ladra di libri’
Un po’ di spirito sulle parole più usate a Natale
Data visualisation sui dati del treno Roma-Tivoli e viceversa
A review of the book “L’anello di re Salomone” (Italian)
Building the landscape of viral families and species in a data viz
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.
Looking at the volume of candidate vaccines against COVID-19 and their progress in pre-clinical and clinical phases, in time
Scientific publishing is broken and academia is doing very little to fix it
My first week of work in the industry after transitioning from academia
Data visualisation over the text of my PhD thesis on language evolution
My path through science and crossing disciplines boundaries
Going with Dickens on a tour of Italy, a data card.
Stopwords in English and finding them in NLP libraries
The Heaps’ law in different languages from Wikipedia text data
Studying the Heaps’ law in different languages from NLTK Corpora
How to plot the real frequency of occurrence of text with NLTK
Data visualisation sulle parole usate dai presidenti della Repubblica nei discorsi di fine anno, continuazione su parole specifiche
Data visualisation sulle parole usate dai presidenti della Repubblica nei discorsi di fine anno
Inspired by Derek Siver’s suggestion on keeping a “now page” updated, I have decided I will do one a month. The now page will stay in the navigation above an...
This is the page, updated once a month, where I list what I’m currently up to. This idea has been largely inspired by Derek Sivers and I decided to do a new ...
Inspired by Derek Siver’s suggestion on keeping a “now page” updated, I have decided I will do one a month. The now page will stay in the navigation above an...
Inspired by Derek Siver’s suggestion on keeping a “now page” updated, I have decided I will do one a month. The now page will stay in the navigation above an...
Inspired by Derek Siver’s suggestion on keeping a “now page” updated, I have decided I will do one a month. The now page will stay in the navigation above an...
Inspired by Derek Siver’s suggestion on keeping a “now page” updated, I have decided I will do one a month. The now page will stay in the navigation above an...
Inspired by Derek Siver’s suggestion on keeping a “now page” updated, I have decided I will do one a month. The now page will stay in the navigation above an...
The Heaps’ law in different languages from Wikipedia text data
Studying the Heaps’ law in different languages from NLTK Corpora
Data visualisation sulle parole usate dai presidenti della Repubblica nei discorsi di fine anno, continuazione su parole specifiche
Data visualisation sulle parole usate dai presidenti della Repubblica nei discorsi di fine anno
Un po’ di spirito sulle parole più usate a Natale
Data visualisation over the text of my PhD thesis on language evolution
A classic of the year-end, reviewing what’s done
Recensione de ‘Storia di una ladra di libri’
A review of the book “L’anello di re Salomone” (Italian)
A review of the movie Anna Karenina
Building the landscape of viral families and species in a data viz
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.
Looking at the volume of candidate vaccines against COVID-19 and their progress in pre-clinical and clinical phases, in time
My path through science and crossing disciplines boundaries
Stopwords in English and finding them in NLP libraries
The Heaps’ law in different languages from Wikipedia text data
Studying the Heaps’ law in different languages from NLTK Corpora
Data visualisation over the text of my PhD thesis on language evolution
Creating files for training object detection models in TensorFlow
Looking at YOLO and Darknet as neural network frameworks for object detection
A tutorial on the Gradient Descent method, done from scratch
How not to use machine learning: to make recipes
Helping others outside the data team to use data is a valuable thing to do, as a data scientist
What is the best way to perform a technical interview for a data science position?
And how to avoid them
Or how the data science advocacy unfolds
Going with Dickens on a tour of Italy, a data card.
Recensione de ‘Storia di una ladra di libri’
A review of the movie Anna Karenina
My first week of work in the industry after transitioning from academia
Data visualisation over the text of my PhD thesis on language evolution
My path through science and crossing disciplines boundaries
The world records in freestyle swimming, for men and women, a data card.
Running is an amazing activity for body and mind. It is hard work, but it feels so good. I started running more and more lately and have progressed quite well.
How I started running from the absolute zero
A walkthrough example of gathering data and preparing it ahead of analysis and display, with detailed steps.
Spreadsheets don’t enjoy much of a good reputation in the data science circles. But I’d argue they’re a great tool and deserve more respect.
In a Google Sheet, count the number of times a term appears in rows where one column has a comma-separated list
A classic of the year-end, reviewing what’s done
Some considerations on property-buying and the whole process
Framing projects and digesting content
Recensione de ‘Storia di una ladra di libri’
A review of the book “L’anello di re Salomone” (Italian)
The evolving field of data science, from the trench, and what is the sense of it all
My first week of work in the industry after transitioning from academia
The evolving field of data science, from the trench, and what is the sense of it all
My first week of work in the industry after transitioning from academia
How not to use machine learning: to make recipes
The British bureaucracy for a European immigrant
My (sad) moving from Glasgow to Edinburgh
The British bureaucracy for a European immigrant
Getting into #SoDS
Everyone grows and learns in time, no matter the age
Running is an amazing activity for body and mind. It is hard work, but it feels so good. I started running more and more lately and have progressed quite well.
How I started running from the absolute zero
Following a path to learn D3 for data visualisation
Some basics on how to use matplotlib for plotting data
Python for querying a DynamoDB in AWS with boto3
Using Python for querying Elasticsearch
The Heaps’ law in different languages from Wikipedia text data
Studying the Heaps’ law in different languages from NLTK Corpora
Exploring the favourite keys used by composers of the Classical era, in data.
Da autodidatta, costruire due band e arrangiare brani
Creating files for training object detection models in TensorFlow
Looking at YOLO and Darknet as neural network frameworks for object detection
Creating files for training object detection models in TensorFlow
Looking at YOLO and Darknet as neural network frameworks for object detection
Creating files for training object detection models in TensorFlow
Looking at YOLO and Darknet as neural network frameworks for object detection
A list of easy command line commands to facilitate data work
Make your terminal beautiful and efficient with Oh My ZSH!
Going with Dickens on a tour of Italy, a data card.
This March, I’ve been away for 3 weeks visiting some places along the USA East Coast. This post will give the overview of what I’ve done and seen!
Looking at data about the share of low-emission buses in fleets from specific cities
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.
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.
Looking at the volume of candidate vaccines against COVID-19 and their progress in pre-clinical and clinical phases, in time
What is the best way to perform a technical interview for a data science position?
And how to avoid them
A walkthrough example of gathering data and preparing it ahead of analysis and display, with detailed steps.
Spreadsheets don’t enjoy much of a good reputation in the data science circles. But I’d argue they’re a great tool and deserve more respect.
A review of the movie Anna Karenina
A review of the book “L’anello di re Salomone” (Italian)
The British bureaucracy for a European immigrant
My two cents on how to give quality public talks
My two cents on how to give quality public talks
A tutorial on the Gradient Descent method, done from scratch
A tutorial on the Gradient Descent method, done from scratch
Some basics on how to use matplotlib for plotting data
Using Python for querying Elasticsearch
Python for querying a DynamoDB in AWS with boto3
Python for querying a DynamoDB in AWS with boto3
Python for querying a DynamoDB in AWS with boto3
How to plot the real frequency of occurrence of text with NLTK
Learning to make the most of Jupyter notebooks
Learning to make the most of Jupyter notebooks
Women amaze, as does everyone else
Installing OpenCV3 with Python3 bindings on macOS, the ultimate guide
Installing OpenCV3 with Python3 bindings on macOS, the ultimate guide
Installing OpenCV3 with Python3 bindings on macOS, the ultimate guide
Scientific publishing is broken and academia is doing very little to fix it
Following a path to learn D3 for data visualisation
Following a path to learn D3 for data visualisation
How the word average is used in regular talk and how to interpret and calculate it best
Da autodidatta, costruire due band e arrangiare brani
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.
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.
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.
Not your usual roman place, the Babington’s tea rooms in Rome
Not your usual roman place, the Babington’s tea rooms in Rome
Not your usual roman place, the Babington’s tea rooms in Rome
Make your terminal beautiful and efficient with Oh My ZSH!
Creating files for training object detection models in TensorFlow
Creating files for training object detection models in TensorFlow
PyDataEdinburgh, the first birthday
PyDataEdinburgh, the first birthday
This March, I’ve been away for 3 weeks visiting some places along the USA East Coast. This post will give the overview of what I’ve done and seen!
Running is an amazing activity for body and mind. It is hard work, but it feels so good. I started running more and more lately and have progressed quite well.
Running is an amazing activity for body and mind. It is hard work, but it feels so good. I started running more and more lately and have progressed quite well.
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.
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.
In a Google Sheet, count the number of times a term appears in rows where one column has a comma-separated list
Talking about some shows I loved, with a feminist kick
Talking about some shows I loved, with a feminist kick
Talking about some shows I loved, with a feminist kick
Talking about some shows I loved, with a feminist kick
Talking about some shows I loved, with a feminist kick
Framing projects and digesting content
Framing projects and digesting content
Framing projects and digesting content
Building the landscape of viral families and species in a data viz
Building the landscape of viral families and species in a data viz
Building the landscape of viral families and species in a data viz
Python’s antigravity package explored
Python’s antigravity package explored
Some considerations on property-buying and the whole process
Some considerations on property-buying and the whole process
A classic of the year-end, reviewing what’s done
Or how the data science advocacy unfolds
And how to avoid them
And how to avoid them
What is the best way to perform a technical interview for a data science position?
Reflecting on the history of technology company Olivetti and what it can still mean today.
Reflecting on the history of technology company Olivetti and what it can still mean today.
Reflecting on the history of technology company Olivetti and what it can still mean today.
Reflecting on the history of technology company Olivetti and what it can still mean today.
Reflecting on the history of technology company Olivetti and what it can still mean today.
Reflecting on the history of technology company Olivetti and what it can still mean today.
The world records in freestyle swimming, for men and women, a data card.
The world records in freestyle swimming, for men and women, a data card.
Spreadsheets don’t enjoy much of a good reputation in the data science circles. But I’d argue they’re a great tool and deserve more respect.
A walkthrough example of gathering data and preparing it ahead of analysis and display, with detailed steps.
A walkthrough example of gathering data and preparing it ahead of analysis and display, with detailed steps.
A walkthrough example of gathering data and preparing it ahead of analysis and display, with detailed steps.
A walkthrough example of gathering data and preparing it ahead of analysis and display, with detailed steps.
A walkthrough example of gathering data and preparing it ahead of analysis and display, with detailed steps.
Analysing colours in Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s art.
Analysing colours in Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s art.
Analysing colours in Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s art.
Analysing colours in Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s art.
Analysing colours in Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s art.
Analysing colours in Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s art.
Exploring the favourite keys used by composers of the Classical era, in data.
Exploring the favourite keys used by composers of the Classical era, in data.
Looking at data about the share of low-emission buses in fleets from specific cities
Looking at data about the share of low-emission buses in fleets from specific cities
Looking at data about the share of low-emission buses in fleets from specific cities
Going with Dickens on a tour of Italy, a data card.
Going with Dickens on a tour of Italy, a data card.
And a reflection on science popularisation
And a reflection on science popularisation
social impact
Entrepreneurship, social impact, and Olivetti
June 08, 2021
8 minute read
Reflecting on the history of technology company Olivetti and what it can still mean today.