Not just a buzzword — The architecture of data is not just a technical architecture but is also an organizational structure, therefore, making it a key factor for building any data empire. Over time there have been introduced different types of architectures, always with the aim of covering the gaps with the ideal solution: we…

The real deal — In an ideal world, the gap between theory and practice is not big or at least not of big impact on the lifecycle of a project. However, in the real world, in particular when working with data, one knows that is not true. Data storage, especially for data stored over…

a tale of silliness: the Christmas movies marathon 🎄🎅🎄 — I like to think there are two types of people on this earth: those who have the Christmas spirit and those who pretend to be Grinch. From the date of this post, it’s quite easy to deduce in which category I belong. We could blame it on the second lockdown…

It is about coding too — If we were to bring Data Science (DS) down to three components we would get algorithms, programming and domain knowledge. The importance of these three components might not be equal; take domain knowledge for example, while it is fundamental to build something useful it is also tightly related to the…

There is a scene in Call me by your name almost at the start of the movie where everyone is having breakfast and when Mafalda notices how much Oliver likes the soft-boiled egg prepared for him and offers him another one. His answer to that is “I know myself too…

My experience with Power BI and Spotfire — Data visualization is, in some sense, the field of visual research, where the information that lies on the data like patterns, trends and correlations is rendered visible to the viewer by looking at the charts in a dashboard. It is known that the human ability to absorb and memorize information…

The most unexpected realizations — Whenever I am on a boat I have this habit of spending the first moments looking back at land as it looks more distant with the time that passes and then at some point, when I feel satisfied with that, I look the other way, where usually the sea and…

Tips on working from home The above picture is my current working space; the map hanging on the wall is now nothing other than a reminder of the current situation and how all other countries might go down the same road as Italy, the plant on the left is one…

It’s going to be a bumpy ride — The year is 2020, there are no flying cars (just ugly looking ones most probably designed using paint by a 5 years old toddler or someone whose names rhymes with Melon Tusk), robots haven’t taken over our planet, and climate change hasn’t finished its course (yet). However, the first signs…