I've created a toy Lakehouse Monitoring in Databricks setup to explore its features and capabilities. The goal is to understand how it works and what benefits it can bring. Here's an overview of what I cover in this post:
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 …
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