Building myself a tool to summarise AI papers with Gemini
And little learnings along the way.
- python 15
- data 13
- language 9
- italian 8
- meta 8
- coding 8
- italy 8
- research 7
- nlp 7
- now 7
- science 6
- linguistics 6
- machine learning 6
- food 6
- literature 5
- music 5
- movies 4
- review 4
- books 4
- spreadsheets 4
- data science 4
- eu 4
- GenAI 4
- llm 4
- phd 3
- work 3
- learning 3
- sport 3
- dataviz 3
- society 3
- statistics 3
- drink 3
- neural networks 3
- climate change 3
- biology 3
- life 3
- history 3
- christmas 3
- probability 3
- eu projects 3
- industry 2
- rant 2
- scotland 2
- running 2
- database 2
- jupyter 2
- deep learning 2
- object detection 2
- command line 2
- travel 2
- USA 2
- covid-19 2
- shows 2
- hiring 2
- colour 2
- painting 2
- art 2
- colour segmentation 2
- alcohol 2
- eighties 2
- ethology 1
- britain 1
- speaking 1
- communication 1
- maths 1
- optimisation 1
- matplotlib 1
- elasticsearch 1
- boto3 1
- dynamodb 1
- aws 1
- nltk 1
- notebook 1
- opencv 1
- macOS 1
- installs 1
- publishing 1
- d3 1
- javascript 1
- bass 1
- stack overflow 1
- cloud computing 1
- twitter 1
- google cloud 1
- rome 1
- shell 1
- tensorflow 1
- pydata 1
- meetup 1
- marathon 1
- time series 1
- media 1
- google sheets 1
- netflix 1
- amazon prime 1
- internet 1
- creativity 1
- virus 1
- ecology 1
- easter egg 1
- mortgage 1
- avocado 1
- writing 1
- interview 1
- entrepreneurship 1
- social impact 1
- innovation 1
- technology 1
- swimming 1
- sql 1
- plants 1
- taxonomy 1
- data preparation 1
- csv 1
- k-means 1
- classical music 1
- public transport 1
- dickens 1
- new england 1
- science popularisation 1
- cocktails 1
- women 1
- nutrition 1
- pasta 1
- bar chart 1
- wealth 1
- geography 1
- newsletter 1
- vienna 1
- new year 1
- concert 1
- interact 1
- widget 1
- mathematics 1
- scipy 1
- ChatGPT 1
- collaborative filtering 1
- recommender 1
- tools 1
- verbs 1
- german 1
- Gemini 1
python
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
Cheers to PyData Edinburgh for its first birthday
PyDataEdinburgh, the first birthday
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
Dissecting the Gradient descent method
Digging into this foundational piece of machinery
data
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.
Empowering non-technical people to use data at work
Helping others outside the data team to use data is a valuable thing to do, as a data scientist
Technical tasks for data science interviews
What is the best way to perform a technical interview for a data science position?
Bad data science job specs
And how to avoid them
Data Science & Avocados
Or how the data science advocacy unfolds
Some basic tips on using the command line for data work
A list of easy command line commands to facilitate data work
The value of education in Data Science, 2020 version
Data Science has been around for a while now, but how has it evolved in time? Notes from a debate.
Cheers to PyData Edinburgh for its first birthday
PyDataEdinburgh, the first birthday
Data Science and its relevance, some time down the line
The evolving field of data science, from the trench, and what is the sense of it all
My summer of data science
Getting into #SoDS
The growth of vocabulary in different languages
Studying the Heaps’ law in different languages from NLTK Corpora
Quanto tempo costa pendolare
Data visualisation sui dati del treno Roma-Tivoli e viceversa
language
Initials of German verbs
An personal empirical measurement
Notes on ChatGPT and learning a language
Some quick notes - it’s a tool, not a oracle
Romance Languages, so near, so far
How far apart these languages are, in data.
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
Il Natale restringe il vocabolario
Un po’ di spirito sulle parole più usate a Natale
My PhD thesis, some analytics
Data visualisation over the text of my PhD thesis on language evolution
italian
OpenCoesione, progetti conclusi e costi
Looking at the differences between predicted and effective realisation
Giovanni, musicista della domenica
Da autodidatta, costruire due band e arrangiare brani
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
Storia di una ladra di libri, di Markus Zusak
Recensione de ‘Storia di una ladra di libri’
Il Natale restringe il vocabolario
Un po’ di spirito sulle parole più usate a Natale
Quanto tempo costa pendolare
Data visualisation sui dati del treno Roma-Tivoli e viceversa
L’anello di re Salomone
A review of the book “L’anello di re Salomone” (Italian)
meta
Empowering non-technical people to use data at work
Helping others outside the data team to use data is a valuable thing to do, as a data scientist
Technical tasks for data science interviews
What is the best way to perform a technical interview for a data science position?
Bad data science job specs
And how to avoid them
Data Science & Avocados
Or how the data science advocacy unfolds
The value of education in Data Science, 2020 version
Data Science has been around for a while now, but how has it evolved in time? Notes from a debate.
Data Science and its relevance, some time down the line
The evolving field of data science, from the trench, and what is the sense of it all
My summer of data science
Getting into #SoDS
Don’t make recipes out of them
How not to use machine learning: to make recipes
coding
Customise your shell for speed with Oh My ZSH!
Make your terminal beautiful and efficient with Oh My ZSH!
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
Dissecting the Gradient descent method
Digging into this foundational piece of machinery
italy
Using Claude to classify EU Cohesion Policy data
Passing long lists of texts to categorise
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.
Italy and the shape of pasta
Much more variety than you may know of.
Dickens’ “Pictures from Italy”, a Victorian travelogue
Going with Dickens on a tour of Italy, a data card.
Entrepreneurship, social impact, and Olivetti
Reflecting on the history of technology company Olivetti and what it can still mean today.
research
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
Scientific publishing, the slow death of academic appeal and what to change
Scientific publishing is broken and academia is doing very little to fix it
A week in the life - how I survived the shift from a PhD to the industry
My first week of work in the industry after transitioning from academia
My PhD thesis, some analytics
Data visualisation over the text of my PhD thesis on language evolution
Crossing the barriers: my personal path through science
My path through science and crossing disciplines boundaries
nlp
Dickens’ “Pictures from Italy”, a Victorian travelogue
Going with Dickens on a tour of Italy, a data card.
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
Plotting the actual frequencies in a FreqDist in NLTK
How to plot the real frequency of occurrence of text with NLTK
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
now
My now page for June 2021
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...
My now page for June 2021
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 ...
My now page for May 2021
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...
My now page for April 2021
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...
My now page for March 2021
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...
My now page for February 2021
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...
My now page for January 2021
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...
science
Building myself a tool to summarise AI papers with Gemini
And little learnings along the way.
LLMs, reliability & the scientific process
Are we becoming too lenient?
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
Crossing the barriers: my personal path through science
My path through science and crossing disciplines boundaries
linguistics
Initials of German verbs
An personal empirical measurement
Romance Languages, so near, so far
How far apart these languages are, in data.
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
My PhD thesis, some analytics
Data visualisation over the text of my PhD thesis on language evolution
machine learning
A simple movie recommender based on similarity
Piggy-backing an idea from fast.ai
Artificial neurons and logical tables
Looking at truth tables via the McCulloch-Pitts unit
TensorFlow, creating the training set for object detection
Creating files for training object detection models in TensorFlow
A very shallow overview of YOLO and Darknet
Looking at YOLO and Darknet as neural network frameworks for object detection
Dissecting the Gradient descent method
Digging into this foundational piece of machinery
Don’t make recipes out of them
How not to use machine learning: to make recipes
food
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.
Michelin restaurants & stars by country
Who has more stars, and what about the type of cuisine?
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.
New England Recipes, circa 1900
A lot of sugar and a data story.
literature
Books I’ve read - in the ages
Simple counts on my list of reads - July 2023
Not just Martinis
What did James Bond drink, in data.
Dickens’ “Pictures from Italy”, a Victorian travelogue
Going with Dickens on a tour of Italy, a data card.
Storia di una ladra di libri, di Markus Zusak
Recensione de ‘Storia di una ladra di libri’
Anna Karenina, the movie
A review of the movie Anna Karenina
music
The New Year’s concert in Vienna
Strauss galore, but there’s some more
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
The most frequently used keys in Classical era music
Exploring the favourite keys used by composers of the Classical era, in data.
Giovanni, musicista della domenica
Da autodidatta, costruire due band e arrangiare brani
movies
The best things in 2024
Personal favourites, of course
A simple movie recommender based on similarity
Piggy-backing an idea from fast.ai
Christmas keeps upping the movies game
The choice of festive movies is larger and larger, in data
Anna Karenina, the movie
A review of the movie Anna Karenina
review
2020, the year in review
A classic of the year-end, reviewing what’s done
Storia di una ladra di libri, di Markus Zusak
Recensione de ‘Storia di una ladra di libri’
L’anello di re Salomone
A review of the book “L’anello di re Salomone” (Italian)
Anna Karenina, the movie
A review of the movie Anna Karenina
books
The best things in 2024
Personal favourites, of course
Not just Martinis
What did James Bond drink, in data.
Storia di una ladra di libri, di Markus Zusak
Recensione de ‘Storia di una ladra di libri’
L’anello di re Salomone
A review of the book “L’anello di re Salomone” (Italian)
spreadsheets
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 Svalbard seed vault, a data preparation example
A walkthrough example of gathering data and preparing it ahead of analysis and display, with detailed steps.
In praise of spreadsheets
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.
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
data science
Empowering non-technical people to use data at work
Helping others outside the data team to use data is a valuable thing to do, as a data scientist
Technical tasks for data science interviews
What is the best way to perform a technical interview for a data science position?
Bad data science job specs
And how to avoid them
Data Science & Avocados
Or how the data science advocacy unfolds
eu
Using Claude to classify EU Cohesion Policy data
Passing long lists of texts to categorise
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
The EU of working women
The 8th of March and where we’re at, some data.
GenAI
Building myself a tool to summarise AI papers with Gemini
And little learnings along the way.
LLMs, reliability & the scientific process
Are we becoming too lenient?
Using Claude to classify EU Cohesion Policy data
Passing long lists of texts to categorise
Notes on ChatGPT and learning a language
Some quick notes - it’s a tool, not a oracle
llm
Building myself a tool to summarise AI papers with Gemini
And little learnings along the way.
LLMs, reliability & the scientific process
Are we becoming too lenient?
Using Claude to classify EU Cohesion Policy data
Passing long lists of texts to categorise
Notes on ChatGPT and learning a language
Some quick notes - it’s a tool, not a oracle
phd
A week in the life - how I survived the shift from a PhD to the industry
My first week of work in the industry after transitioning from academia
My PhD thesis, some analytics
Data visualisation over the text of my PhD thesis on language evolution
Crossing the barriers: my personal path through science
My path through science and crossing disciplines boundaries
work
The EU of working women
The 8th of March and where we’re at, some data.
Data Science and its relevance, some time down the line
The evolving field of data science, from the trench, and what is the sense of it all
A week in the life - how I survived the shift from a PhD to the industry
My first week of work in the industry after transitioning from academia
learning
Notes on ChatGPT and learning a language
Some quick notes - it’s a tool, not a oracle
My summer of data science
Getting into #SoDS
You grow every day
Everyone grows and learns in time, no matter the age
sport
The world records in freestyle swimming, in data
The world records in freestyle swimming, for men and women, a data card.
Thoughts on the run
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.
From 0 to 15k
How I started running from the absolute zero
dataviz
Bar charts, so popular, so abused
Exploring some ways to make better use of bar charts in data viz
Rallying into D3
Following a path to learn D3 for data visualisation
Some Matplotlib idiosyncrasies
Some basics on how to use matplotlib for plotting data
society
Wealth and inequality
A journey from country to country, in data.
The EU of working women
The 8th of March and where we’re at, some data.
Women amaze
Women amaze, as does everyone else
statistics
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.
The average meaning of average
How the word average is used in regular talk and how to interpret and calculate it best
drink
Cocktails, spirits & data
Looking at the IBA cocktails, in data.
Not just Martinis
What did James Bond drink, in data.
Rome - The Babington’s Tea Rooms
Not your usual roman place, the Babington’s tea rooms in Rome
neural networks
Artificial neurons and logical tables
Looking at truth tables via the McCulloch-Pitts unit
TensorFlow, creating the training set for object detection
Creating files for training object detection models in TensorFlow
A very shallow overview of YOLO and Darknet
Looking at YOLO and Darknet as neural network frameworks for object detection
climate change
2022, annus horribilis
The year climate change went mainstream.
Low-emission bus fleets in cities, a data card
Looking at data about the share of low-emission buses in fleets from specific cities
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.
biology
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
life
2020, the year in review
A classic of the year-end, reviewing what’s done
I bought a flat
Some considerations on property-buying and the whole process
Content overload and new projects
Framing projects and digesting content
history
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
Entrepreneurship, social impact, and Olivetti
Reflecting on the history of technology company Olivetti and what it can still mean today.
christmas
The New Year’s concert in Vienna
Strauss galore, but there’s some more
Christmas keeps upping the movies game
The choice of festive movies is larger and larger, in data
The Christmas lectures from the Royal Institution
And a reflection on science popularisation
probability
Gambling, probability and Bernoulli trials
Exploring some of the simple concepts in the early theory of probability
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.
eu projects
Using Claude to classify EU Cohesion Policy data
Passing long lists of texts to categorise
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
industry
Data Science and its relevance, some time down the line
The evolving field of data science, from the trench, and what is the sense of it all
A week in the life - how I survived the shift from a PhD to the industry
My first week of work in the industry after transitioning from academia
rant
Don’t make recipes out of them
How not to use machine learning: to make recipes
An outsider perspective on the British bureaucratic machine
The British bureaucracy for a European immigrant
scotland
Glasgow, I’m leaving you!
My (sad) moving from Glasgow to Edinburgh
An outsider perspective on the British bureaucratic machine
The British bureaucracy for a European immigrant
running
Thoughts on the run
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.
From 0 to 15k
How I started running from the absolute zero
database
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
jupyter
A brief look at the interact IPython widget!
Playing with maths with Jupyter interactivity.
Jupyter goodness
Learning to make the most of Jupyter notebooks
deep learning
TensorFlow, creating the training set for object detection
Creating files for training object detection models in TensorFlow
A very shallow overview of YOLO and Darknet
Looking at YOLO and Darknet as neural network frameworks for object detection
object detection
TensorFlow, creating the training set for object detection
Creating files for training object detection models in TensorFlow
A very shallow overview of YOLO and Darknet
Looking at YOLO and Darknet as neural network frameworks for object detection
command line
Some basic tips on using the command line for data work
A list of easy command line commands to facilitate data work
Customise your shell for speed with Oh My ZSH!
Make your terminal beautiful and efficient with Oh My ZSH!
travel
Dickens’ “Pictures from Italy”, a Victorian travelogue
Going with Dickens on a tour of Italy, a data card.
My marvelous US East Coast trip
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!
USA
New England Recipes, circa 1900
A lot of sugar and a data story.
My marvelous US East Coast trip
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!
covid-19
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
shows
The best things in 2024
Personal favourites, of course
Great feminist shows I recently watched
Talking about some shows I loved, with a feminist kick
hiring
Technical tasks for data science interviews
What is the best way to perform a technical interview for a data science position?
Bad data science job specs
And how to avoid them
colour
A journey through Caravaggio’s colours, in data
Analysing colours in Caravaggio’s art.
A journey through Renoir’s colours, in data
Analysing colours in Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s art.
painting
A journey through Caravaggio’s colours, in data
Analysing colours in Caravaggio’s art.
A journey through Renoir’s colours, in data
Analysing colours in Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s art.
art
A journey through Caravaggio’s colours, in data
Analysing colours in Caravaggio’s art.
A journey through Renoir’s colours, in data
Analysing colours in Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s art.
colour segmentation
A journey through Caravaggio’s colours, in data
Analysing colours in Caravaggio’s art.
A journey through Renoir’s colours, in data
Analysing colours in Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s art.
alcohol
Cocktails, spirits & data
Looking at the IBA cocktails, in data.
Not just Martinis
What did James Bond drink, in data.
eighties
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
ethology
L’anello di re Salomone
A review of the book “L’anello di re Salomone” (Italian)
britain
An outsider perspective on the British bureaucratic machine
The British bureaucracy for a European immigrant
speaking
Delightful public talks
My two cents on how to give quality public talks
communication
Delightful public talks
My two cents on how to give quality public talks
maths
Dissecting the Gradient descent method
Digging into this foundational piece of machinery
optimisation
Dissecting the Gradient descent method
Digging into this foundational piece of machinery
matplotlib
Some Matplotlib idiosyncrasies
Some basics on how to use matplotlib for plotting data
elasticsearch
Python for (some) Elasticsearch queries
Using Python for querying Elasticsearch
boto3
Interacting with a DynamoDB via boto3
Python for querying a DynamoDB in AWS with boto3
dynamodb
Interacting with a DynamoDB via boto3
Python for querying a DynamoDB in AWS with boto3
aws
Interacting with a DynamoDB via boto3
Python for querying a DynamoDB in AWS with boto3
nltk
Plotting the actual frequencies in a FreqDist in NLTK
How to plot the real frequency of occurrence of text with NLTK
notebook
Jupyter goodness
Learning to make the most of Jupyter notebooks
opencv
How I managed to install OpenCV3 with Python3 bindings on a macOS
Installing OpenCV3 with Python3 bindings on macOS, the ultimate guide
macOS
How I managed to install OpenCV3 with Python3 bindings on a macOS
Installing OpenCV3 with Python3 bindings on macOS, the ultimate guide
installs
How I managed to install OpenCV3 with Python3 bindings on a macOS
Installing OpenCV3 with Python3 bindings on macOS, the ultimate guide
publishing
Scientific publishing, the slow death of academic appeal and what to change
Scientific publishing is broken and academia is doing very little to fix it
d3
Rallying into D3
Following a path to learn D3 for data visualisation
javascript
Rallying into D3
Following a path to learn D3 for data visualisation
bass
Giovanni, musicista della domenica
Da autodidatta, costruire due band e arrangiare brani
stack overflow
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...
cloud computing
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.
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.
google cloud
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.
rome
Rome - The Babington’s Tea Rooms
Not your usual roman place, the Babington’s tea rooms in Rome
shell
Customise your shell for speed with Oh My ZSH!
Make your terminal beautiful and efficient with Oh My ZSH!
tensorflow
TensorFlow, creating the training set for object detection
Creating files for training object detection models in TensorFlow
pydata
Cheers to PyData Edinburgh for its first birthday
PyDataEdinburgh, the first birthday
meetup
Cheers to PyData Edinburgh for its first birthday
PyDataEdinburgh, the first birthday
marathon
Thoughts on the run
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.
time series
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.
media
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.
google sheets
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
netflix
Great feminist shows I recently watched
Talking about some shows I loved, with a feminist kick
amazon prime
Great feminist shows I recently watched
Talking about some shows I loved, with a feminist kick
internet
Content overload and new projects
Framing projects and digesting content
creativity
Content overload and new projects
Framing projects and digesting content
virus
Viral families and viral species, a data card
Building the landscape of viral families and species in a data viz
ecology
Viral families and viral species, a data card
Building the landscape of viral families and species in a data viz
easter egg
Python & Antigravity
Python’s antigravity package explored
mortgage
I bought a flat
Some considerations on property-buying and the whole process
avocado
Data Science & Avocados
Or how the data science advocacy unfolds
writing
Bad data science job specs
And how to avoid them
interview
Technical tasks for data science interviews
What is the best way to perform a technical interview for a data science position?
entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship, social impact, and Olivetti
Reflecting on the history of technology company Olivetti and what it can still mean today.
innovation
Entrepreneurship, social impact, and Olivetti
Reflecting on the history of technology company Olivetti and what it can still mean today.
technology
Entrepreneurship, social impact, and Olivetti
Reflecting on the history of technology company Olivetti and what it can still mean today.
swimming
The world records in freestyle swimming, in data
The world records in freestyle swimming, for men and women, a data card.
sql
In praise of spreadsheets
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.
plants
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.
taxonomy
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.
data preparation
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.
csv
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.
k-means
A journey through Renoir’s colours, in data
Analysing colours in Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s art.
classical music
The most frequently used keys in Classical era music
Exploring the favourite keys used by composers of the Classical era, in data.
public transport
Low-emission bus fleets in cities, a data card
Looking at data about the share of low-emission buses in fleets from specific cities
dickens
Dickens’ “Pictures from Italy”, a Victorian travelogue
Going with Dickens on a tour of Italy, a data card.
new england
New England Recipes, circa 1900
A lot of sugar and a data story.
science popularisation
The Christmas lectures from the Royal Institution
And a reflection on science popularisation
cocktails
Cocktails, spirits & data
Looking at the IBA cocktails, in data.
women
The EU of working women
The 8th of March and where we’re at, some data.
nutrition
Do we know our cooking fats and oils?
A lipidic data journey.
pasta
Italy and the shape of pasta
Much more variety than you may know of.
bar chart
Bar charts, so popular, so abused
Exploring some ways to make better use of bar charts in data viz
wealth
Wealth and inequality
A journey from country to country, in data.
geography
Wealth and inequality
A journey from country to country, in data.
vienna
The New Year’s concert in Vienna
Strauss galore, but there’s some more
new year
The New Year’s concert in Vienna
Strauss galore, but there’s some more
concert
The New Year’s concert in Vienna
Strauss galore, but there’s some more
interact
A brief look at the interact IPython widget!
Playing with maths with Jupyter interactivity.
widget
A brief look at the interact IPython widget!
Playing with maths with Jupyter interactivity.
mathematics
A brief look at the interact IPython widget!
Playing with maths with Jupyter interactivity.
scipy
A brief look at the interact IPython widget!
Playing with maths with Jupyter interactivity.
ChatGPT
Notes on ChatGPT and learning a language
Some quick notes - it’s a tool, not a oracle
collaborative filtering
A simple movie recommender based on similarity
Piggy-backing an idea from fast.ai
recommender
A simple movie recommender based on similarity
Piggy-backing an idea from fast.ai
tools
The best things in 2024
Personal favourites, of course
verbs
Initials of German verbs
An personal empirical measurement
german
Initials of German verbs
An personal empirical measurement
Gemini
Building myself a tool to summarise AI papers with Gemini
And little learnings along the way.
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.