Data is an essential part of data analytics, data security, and data science. That’s obvious. Sometimes, however, that data can get a little dirty. No, not like in a gangster film. More like where suddenly we are having to deal with ‘dirty data’ … Read more
Data Analysis
7 Key Differences Between Data Analytics and Data Mining
With every second we spend online, mountains of data is generated. For every social media post, Google search, and link clicked, there is a way in which our activity can be collected for data. Experts within the data science field can utilize this, … Read more
Start Building Your Own Cloud Native COVID-19 Data Analytics Model
Table Of ContentsWhat will you learn about COVID-19 data analytics?COVID-19 data analytics and cloud: topics summaryWhy Microservices? Containerization Orchestration When you read or watch the latest news on the spread of COVID-19 … Read more
5 Rules of Engagement When it Comes to Data Visualization
So you’ve been out, you’ve conducted the surveys, you’ve collected a giant pot of data that unequivocally demonstrates your position and now it’s time to present. How do you do it? Well you could just dump the raw spreadsheet at the desk of your … Read more
What Are the Main Areas of Development for a Data Analyst’s Career?
Data analysts manipulate data and use it to help organisations make wise business decisions. They gather information from the data regarding specific aspects, interpret, analyse and share their findings with other stakeholders in the organisation … Read more
Logging in Python: a broad, gentle introduction
Not all data scientists have a computer science background - I received my bachelor’s degree in Statistics, for example. As I moved into data, I noticed that I was good at scripting, but was not able to create a ‘production-quality’ code. A … Read more
Epidemic Intelligence, part 2: data, models and machine learning in the age of Coronavirus
In a previous article, we shared some reflections on machine learning models for data fitting and prediction, playing with a simple dataset related to the spread of the current coronavirus emergency. We looked at simple models and mentioned some … Read more
Epidemic Intelligence, part 1: data, models and machine learning in the age of Coronavirus
The current global emergency due to the spread of the coronavirus in several countries shows how fragile our society's equilibrium is when faced with 'interior' threats such as an epidemic. Treatments to relieve symptoms and a vaccine will eventually … Read more
Codemotion Rome 2020: an overview of the companies involved
Before the COVID-19 emergency, Codemotion was in the process of organising its next big conference. The Call for Papers for Codemotion Rome 2020 closed with staggering numbers: 646 proposals submitted! The conference was subsequently cancelled, … Read more
Codemotion Rome 2020: A Deep Dive into Talks and Topics
Codemotion Rome 2020: what data science can tell us Before the COVID-19 outbreak, Codemotion was organising its next big conference. The Call for Papers for Codemotion Rome 2020 closed with a staggering number of submissions received: 646 … Read more
Waiting for Codemotion Rome 2020
Before the COVID-19 outbreak, the call for papers for Codemotion Rome 2020 had closed with 646 proposals submitted. After all these months, there are still some important lessons that we can learn from those proposals. The following article … Read more