When you work as a data analyst or data scientist (I'll use the terms interchangeably) in a company, you may not be training predictive models every single day. A significant (and often interesting) part of your job is answering business questions via data mining regardless if you do it with …
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Guest at DaGrande podcast
I was recently guest at a new podcast called "DaGrande". The podcast was launched by Stefano Bosisio and aims at helping students that are near to conclude their studies. "DaGrande" consists of a series of interviews where professionals from a variety of industries share tips or insights abuot career that …
read moreLearning by teaching
The picture below was taken just at the beginning of the exam of the course called Apache Spark for Data Analysis at ITS Rizzoli in Milan on November 2022. I was the one taking the picture because I was actually the lecturer of this course. In this post, I'll tell …
read moreSpeaker at PyCon IT 2022
I went back to PyCon IT 2022 in Florence in June. I gave one talk called Why Is Our Project Late? where I introduces mental and statistical bias that lead us to make wrong estimates when making a plan.
Furthermore, we held a live session of Intervista Pythonista podcast interviewing …
read moreMy Webinar on Databricks and PySpark
I was invited by Python Biella community to hold a webinar introducing PySpark on Databricks (in Italian). You can find the video below and the code here.
read moreMy 6 Gems on Data Visualization
I have been working quite some time with charts and business intelligence in the last 5 years. When you spend time building business reports, you may perceive data visualization as a cold technical and business tool. However, there are 6 hidden gems in data visualization that I found by chance …
read moreHow I started podcasting
On May 2021, the first episode of my first podcast went live. The podcast is called Intervista Pythonista and is co-hosted with Cesare Placanica. Cesare and I are members of the Python Milano community that helped us to kick-off the idea.
Why podcasting?
I am a heavy podcast listener. I …
read moreGetting PSM I Scrum Certification
I've been working with Scrum framework over the last 18 months, and I thought it was time to test that what I was doing was real Scrum or kind-of-Scrum. I decided to take the Professional Scrum Master I certification exam to test my knowledge of the framework.
Which certification?
Where …
read moreNotes from Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann was not a quick-read. Let me be clear, it is not such a long book (the paper version is 400 pages), but it is so dense of information that takes some time to go through. The book covers indeed a broad spectrum of data …
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