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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

How many data engineers should we hire? Are they too many compared to our data scientists?

One of the key decisions to take when building a data science team is the mix of roles. This means choosing the right mix of background and of activities that each member of the …

I'm now part of a data and AI team in a fintech spinoff. When I joined the company, it did not make sense to spend time in defining precise job titles because we were to build everything from scratch (both software, teams and organization). My job title was therefore a …

The first Covid case in Italy was found on February 21st 2020. A couple of weeks later we were entering the lockdown with this number of new daily cases.

The number of Covid-19 new cases was growing really fast every day. We had no clue about what was going to …