Shallow Work: Noncognitively demanding, logistical-style tasks, often performed while distracted. These efforts tend not to create much new value in the world and are easy to replicate.
Cal Newport gives this definition of how I spend part of my work-time in his Deep Work book. Checking emails, messaging on Teams …
read moreI celebrated 10 years since my graduation trying to giving back somthing I learned about our industry to students. I was invited by Prof. Francesco Calimeri from UniCal to hold a seminar to students at the last year of MSc. in Computer Science and AI. A couple of pictures from …
read moreI had a lot of fun (and work) over the last 6 months working or organizing a conference, Py4AI. The conference was held in Pavia, Italy, on March 16th 2024. The conference was a success, with over 200 attendees and 12 speakers. The conference was organized by a group of …
read moreWhy bothering reading a book about design of web APIs when working in data science like I do? I found this book called The Design of Web APIs by Arnaud Lauret and decided to give it a try.
Data science is shifting towards turning models and solutions …
read moreWhen 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 …
read moreI 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 moreThe 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 moreI 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 moreI 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.
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