This blog is a place for my thoughts. I’m usually interested in Data Science and Big Data, and how Business and Management should evolve to take advantage of them.

Sometimes, I have fun thinking to something else 🙂 That’s what “Homonovus“ is for (my melting pot of thoughts). Here I often write in Italian, apologies to my english speaking friends.

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Latest Posts

Covid-9 Evolution Model: Calibration results for Italy (4/23/2020) - Disclaimer: what follow is just a logic/math/coding personal exercise, it does not have any medical implications. I’m not a virologist, nor an expert of medical topics. What I’m sharing is just made for intellectual pleasure.
Covid-19 Evolutionary Model: study on Italy (3/29/2020) - Here is an attempt to describe the epidemic diffusion of Covid-19 and its effect on the population of a State. The evolution through time is described by a discrete time micro-founded model. The model is calibrated on Italian data, available thanks to the Dipartimento Protezione Civile, and available at this GitHub repository. After the calibration, […]
Things I like 2015-12 (12/6/2015) - Balkanization of Data Science Will Balkanization of Data Science lead to one Empire or many Republics?   R vs Python for Data Science Simple and clear, this is a good attempt to one of the classics of Data Science How to get startups ideas “Live in the future and then build what is missing & […]
Things in Data Science 2015-11 (11/22/2015) - Apache Spark Machine Learning Tutorial Informative tutorial that walks us through using Spark’s machine learning capabilities and Scala to train a logistic regression classifier on a larger-than-memory dataset. by Dmitry Petrov 60+ Free books on Bg Data, Data Science, Data Mining, … Here is a great collection of eBooks written on the topics of Data Science, […]
Lists of Things (11/22/2015) - For my memory (and hopefully somebody out there benefit). https://archive.org/ Archive.org is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, and more.  
Project: Advanced Analytics Framework (11/22/2015) - The main project I’m working on at the moment is the design and development of an advanced analytics framework for customer analytics (I will be generic on the concrete application, but rather describe general purposes and features).
Big Data Infrastructure: tools and applications (8/31/2015) - I felt the need to put some clarity in my mind on growing Big Data applications cosmology. I will update this post as my own framework of best practices evolves, and I’ll probably post new articles on single applications as they come along under the tag Frameworks and Big Data.
Emma Bonino, raccontiamola giusta (4/16/2013) - Originally posted on milzeinfuga:
Negli ultimi giorni, si è parlato molto della possibilità di eleggere Emma Bonino a Presidente della Repubblica. Insieme agli attestati di stima pervenutile da diverse aree politiche e della società civile, sono cominciate a girare voci poco rassicuranti sul suo conto. Primo tra i detrattori il nostro giornalista preferito, Marco Travaglio,…
Area Euro, effimero equilibrio di diversità (4/15/2013) - L’integrazione economica europea è una chimera a cui si è cercato di tendere, e che si sta rivelando un brutto incubo con l’acuirsi della crisi. Un sistema di economie eterogenee che competono tra loro e con l’estero ha bisogno di meccanismi di armonizzazione tali da evitare l’accumulo di squilibri e distorsioni, che normalmente si abbattono […]
Logiche Casiniane (4/8/2013) - Dopo più di 40 giorni di silenzio, Casini esprime il suo pensiero sulla debacle elettorale che ha coinvolto il suo partito e l’esperimento Scelta Civica. In molti hanno visto nell’intervista rilasciata al Corriere della Sera una riflessione profonda sugli errori commessi in campagna elettorale. Luca Sofri su Twitter ne elogia l’unicità della sua autocritica (). […]