Why investing in the financial market is important

It’s been a couple of years that I tried to become more proficient in investing. The basic assumption is that, unlike my father, I won’t have access to a comfortable state pension once I’m around my retirement age. Actually, nowadays retirement ages are keeping increasing, thus I believe there is a risk that I will have to continue working until 80 years old… This is something I’d like to avoid, if possible!

For this reason, I started with simple ETFs, using Dollar-Cost Averaging. This strategy is very simple and doesn’t... read more

COVID-19 is a great opportunity to reflect on ourselves and to dedicate time and effort to things we normally cannot do during our normal busy lives. Hence, I decided to start writing my first Data Science related blog post.

In my first post I will cover the following content:

1. Pull data from a website in the form of a csv and load it into Pandas
2. Evaluate the data, manipulate and clean the data
3. Visualize major trends in the data using matlpotlib, plotly and bokeh

Disclaimer and requirements

Everyone needs to start somewhere. Being my first post, I... read more

Everything starts for a reason…I was playing around with some messy data that I wanted to tame for a personal data science project. I automatically, without thinking, imported the data in Python.

I got bored. Python is not the elective language to clean and manage data. Personally, I have experience and I’m comfortable using SQL which is my go-to language to manage clean and wrangle data. SQL has the advantage of being extremely efficient in transforming operations and pre-exploratory data analysis.

What are the advantages of SQL ETL versus Python ETL? I recently came across an article that compared... read more

What would you do if you had tool that could decrease the time spent trying to understand the patterns and behaviors of currently active crypto coins? Imagine an app that supports your crypto coin analysis, that’s what I’m building.

This is my first article in a while. Checking in, my last piece was in 2020, during the first months of global lockdowns. A lot happened to me and to the rest of the world since then. However, my need and will to create content, improve my technical capabilities, and become financially independent never disappeared.

In 2022, I want to produce... read more

Everything starts for a reason…I was playing around with some messy data that I wanted to tame for a personal data science project. I automatically, without thinking, imported the data in Python.

I got bored. Python is not the elective language to clean and manage data. Personally, I have experience and I’m comfortable using SQL which is my go-to language to manage clean and wrangle data. SQL has the advantage of being extremely efficient in transforming operations and pre-exploratory data analysis.

What are the advantages of SQL ETL versus Python ETL? I recently came across an article that compared... read more

I’m personally bombarded by articles and videos revolving around Python. Based on my experience however, SQL is the most fundamental tool that you will need from day one in any data role.

In this article I make the point that, based on my experience, SQL is the most important language you can learn when changing career and approaching data science. I started a quest to find the data that confirmed my hypothesis.

To help others that are in the process of learning SQL to understand the language faster, I started a series of lessons to explain SQL in plain English.... read more

Everything starts for a reason…I was playing around with some messy data that I wanted to tame for a personal data science project. I automatically, without thinking, imported the data in Python.

I got bored. Python is not the elective language to clean and manage data. Personally, I have experience and I’m comfortable using SQL which is my go-to language to manage clean and wrangle data. SQL has the advantage of being extremely efficient in transforming operations and pre-exploratory data analysis.

What are the advantages of SQL ETL versus Python ETL? I recently came across an article that compared... read more

Why investing in the financial market is important

It’s been a couple of years that I tried to become more proficient in investing. The basic assumption is that, unlike my father, I won’t have access to a comfortable state pension once I’m around my retirement age. Actually, nowadays retirement ages are keeping increasing, thus I believe there is a risk that I will have to continue working until 80 years old… This is something I’d like to avoid, if possible!

For this reason, I started with simple ETFs, using Dollar-Cost Averaging. This strategy is very simple and doesn’t... read more

COVID-19 is a great opportunity to reflect on ourselves and to dedicate time and effort to things we normally cannot do during our normal busy lives. Hence, I decided to start writing my first Data Science related blog post.

In my first post I will cover the following content:

1. Pull data from a website in the form of a csv and load it into Pandas
2. Evaluate the data, manipulate and clean the data
3. Visualize major trends in the data using matlpotlib, plotly and bokeh

Disclaimer and requirements

Everyone needs to start somewhere. Being my first post, I... read more

Everything starts for a reason…I was playing around with some messy data that I wanted to tame for a personal data science project. I automatically, without thinking, imported the data in Python.

I got bored. Python is not the elective language to clean and manage data. Personally, I have experience and I’m comfortable using SQL which is my go-to language to manage clean and wrangle data. SQL has the advantage of being extremely efficient in transforming operations and pre-exploratory data analysis.

What are the advantages of SQL ETL versus Python ETL? I recently came across an article that compared... read more

I’m personally bombarded by articles and videos revolving around Python. Based on my experience however, SQL is the most fundamental tool that you will need from day one in any data role.

In this article I make the point that, based on my experience, SQL is the most important language you can learn when changing career and approaching data science. I started a quest to find the data that confirmed my hypothesis.

To help others that are in the process of learning SQL to understand the language faster, I started a series of lessons to explain SQL in plain English.... read more

Everything starts for a reason…I was playing around with some messy data that I wanted to tame for a personal data science project. I automatically, without thinking, imported the data in Python.

I got bored. Python is not the elective language to clean and manage data. Personally, I have experience and I’m comfortable using SQL which is my go-to language to manage clean and wrangle data. SQL has the advantage of being extremely efficient in transforming operations and pre-exploratory data analysis.

What are the advantages of SQL ETL versus Python ETL? I recently came across an article that compared... read more

What would you do if you had tool that could decrease the time spent trying to understand the patterns and behaviors of currently active crypto coins? Imagine an app that supports your crypto coin analysis, that’s what I’m building.

This is my first article in a while. Checking in, my last piece was in 2020, during the first months of global lockdowns. A lot happened to me and to the rest of the world since then. However, my need and will to create content, improve my technical capabilities, and become financially independent never disappeared.

In 2022, I want to produce... read more

What would you do if you had tool that could decrease the time spent trying to understand the patterns and behaviors of currently active crypto coins? Imagine an app that supports your crypto coin analysis, that’s what I’m building.

This is my first article in a while. Checking in, my last piece was in 2020, during the first months of global lockdowns. A lot happened to me and to the rest of the world since then. However, my need and will to create content, improve my technical capabilities, and become financially independent never disappeared.

In 2022, I want to produce... read more

Everything starts for a reason…I was playing around with some messy data that I wanted to tame for a personal data science project. I automatically, without thinking, imported the data in Python.

I got bored. Python is not the elective language to clean and manage data. Personally, I have experience and I’m comfortable using SQL which is my go-to language to manage clean and wrangle data. SQL has the advantage of being extremely efficient in transforming operations and pre-exploratory data analysis.

What are the advantages of SQL ETL versus Python ETL? I recently came across an article that compared... read more

I’m personally bombarded by articles and videos revolving around Python. Based on my experience however, SQL is the most fundamental tool that you will need from day one in any data role.

In this article I make the point that, based on my experience, SQL is the most important language you can learn when changing career and approaching data science. I started a quest to find the data that confirmed my hypothesis.

To help others that are in the process of learning SQL to understand the language faster, I started a series of lessons to explain SQL in plain English.... read more

COVID-19 is a great opportunity to reflect on ourselves and to dedicate time and effort to things we normally cannot do during our normal busy lives. Hence, I decided to start writing my first Data Science related blog post.

In my first post I will cover the following content:

1. Pull data from a website in the form of a csv and load it into Pandas
2. Evaluate the data, manipulate and clean the data
3. Visualize major trends in the data using matlpotlib, plotly and bokeh

Disclaimer and requirements

Everyone needs to start somewhere. Being my first post, I... read more

Only 0.45% of science PhDs that graduate every year will ever become professors. You better start looking for alternatives.

If you are attending a PhD programme, chances are you consider yourself quite smart. Most likely you are very dedicated and you possess the grit to go down an intense and challenging path… But do you really think you are part of the 0.45% 1?

The number of doctoral degrees awarded has more than doubled since between 2000 and 2018. In the academic job market that keeps shrinking and is becoming more and more competitive, the opportunities for the... read more

Only 0.45% of science PhDs that graduate every year will ever become professors. You better start looking for alternatives.

If you are attending a PhD programme, chances are you consider yourself quite smart. Most likely you are very dedicated and you possess the grit to go down an intense and challenging path… But do you really think you are part of the 0.45% 1?

The number of doctoral degrees awarded has more than doubled since between 2000 and 2018. In the academic job market that keeps shrinking and is becoming more and more competitive, the opportunities for the... read more

What would you do if you had tool that could decrease the time spent trying to understand the patterns and behaviors of currently active crypto coins? Imagine an app that supports your crypto coin analysis, that’s what I’m building.

This is my first article in a while. Checking in, my last piece was in 2020, during the first months of global lockdowns. A lot happened to me and to the rest of the world since then. However, my need and will to create content, improve my technical capabilities, and become financially independent never disappeared.

In 2022, I want to produce... read more

What would you do if you had tool that could decrease the time spent trying to understand the patterns and behaviors of currently active crypto coins? Imagine an app that supports your crypto coin analysis, that’s what I’m building.

This is my first article in a while. Checking in, my last piece was in 2020, during the first months of global lockdowns. A lot happened to me and to the rest of the world since then. However, my need and will to create content, improve my technical capabilities, and become financially independent never disappeared.

In 2022, I want to produce... read more

What would you do if you had tool that could decrease the time spent trying to understand the patterns and behaviors of currently active crypto coins? Imagine an app that supports your crypto coin analysis, that’s what I’m building.

This is my first article in a while. Checking in, my last piece was in 2020, during the first months of global lockdowns. A lot happened to me and to the rest of the world since then. However, my need and will to create content, improve my technical capabilities, and become financially independent never disappeared.

In 2022, I want to produce... read more

What would you do if you had tool that could decrease the time spent trying to understand the patterns and behaviors of currently active crypto coins? Imagine an app that supports your crypto coin analysis, that’s what I’m building.

This is my first article in a while. Checking in, my last piece was in 2020, during the first months of global lockdowns. A lot happened to me and to the rest of the world since then. However, my need and will to create content, improve my technical capabilities, and become financially independent never disappeared.

In 2022, I want to produce... read more

Everything starts for a reason…I was playing around with some messy data that I wanted to tame for a personal data science project. I automatically, without thinking, imported the data in Python.

I got bored. Python is not the elective language to clean and manage data. Personally, I have experience and I’m comfortable using SQL which is my go-to language to manage clean and wrangle data. SQL has the advantage of being extremely efficient in transforming operations and pre-exploratory data analysis.

What are the advantages of SQL ETL versus Python ETL? I recently came across an article that compared... read more

I’m personally bombarded by articles and videos revolving around Python. Based on my experience however, SQL is the most fundamental tool that you will need from day one in any data role.

In this article I make the point that, based on my experience, SQL is the most important language you can learn when changing career and approaching data science. I started a quest to find the data that confirmed my hypothesis.

To help others that are in the process of learning SQL to understand the language faster, I started a series of lessons to explain SQL in plain English.... read more

Why investing in the financial market is important

It’s been a couple of years that I tried to become more proficient in investing. The basic assumption is that, unlike my father, I won’t have access to a comfortable state pension once I’m around my retirement age. Actually, nowadays retirement ages are keeping increasing, thus I believe there is a risk that I will have to continue working until 80 years old… This is something I’d like to avoid, if possible!

For this reason, I started with simple ETFs, using Dollar-Cost Averaging. This strategy is very simple and doesn’t... read more

COVID-19 is a great opportunity to reflect on ourselves and to dedicate time and effort to things we normally cannot do during our normal busy lives. Hence, I decided to start writing my first Data Science related blog post.

In my first post I will cover the following content:

1. Pull data from a website in the form of a csv and load it into Pandas
2. Evaluate the data, manipulate and clean the data
3. Visualize major trends in the data using matlpotlib, plotly and bokeh

Disclaimer and requirements

Everyone needs to start somewhere. Being my first post, I... read more

Everything starts for a reason…I was playing around with some messy data that I wanted to tame for a personal data science project. I automatically, without thinking, imported the data in Python.

I got bored. Python is not the elective language to clean and manage data. Personally, I have experience and I’m comfortable using SQL which is my go-to language to manage clean and wrangle data. SQL has the advantage of being extremely efficient in transforming operations and pre-exploratory data analysis.

What are the advantages of SQL ETL versus Python ETL? I recently came across an article that compared... read more

Everything starts for a reason…I was playing around with some messy data that I wanted to tame for a personal data science project. I automatically, without thinking, imported the data in Python.

I got bored. Python is not the elective language to clean and manage data. Personally, I have experience and I’m comfortable using SQL which is my go-to language to manage clean and wrangle data. SQL has the advantage of being extremely efficient in transforming operations and pre-exploratory data analysis.

What are the advantages of SQL ETL versus Python ETL? I recently came across an article that compared... read more

What would you do if you had tool that could decrease the time spent trying to understand the patterns and behaviors of currently active crypto coins? Imagine an app that supports your crypto coin analysis, that’s what I’m building.

This is my first article in a while. Checking in, my last piece was in 2020, during the first months of global lockdowns. A lot happened to me and to the rest of the world since then. However, my need and will to create content, improve my technical capabilities, and become financially independent never disappeared.

In 2022, I want to produce... read more

Everything starts for a reason…I was playing around with some messy data that I wanted to tame for a personal data science project. I automatically, without thinking, imported the data in Python.

I got bored. Python is not the elective language to clean and manage data. Personally, I have experience and I’m comfortable using SQL which is my go-to language to manage clean and wrangle data. SQL has the advantage of being extremely efficient in transforming operations and pre-exploratory data analysis.

What are the advantages of SQL ETL versus Python ETL? I recently came across an article that compared... read more

Why investing in the financial market is important

It’s been a couple of years that I tried to become more proficient in investing. The basic assumption is that, unlike my father, I won’t have access to a comfortable state pension once I’m around my retirement age. Actually, nowadays retirement ages are keeping increasing, thus I believe there is a risk that I will have to continue working until 80 years old… This is something I’d like to avoid, if possible!

For this reason, I started with simple ETFs, using Dollar-Cost Averaging. This strategy is very simple and doesn’t... read more

I’ve imagined this tutorial as a series of posts, to share my experience in building a static website based on Jekyll. I hope this will be helpful to help you getting started in building your own website based on Jekyll.

In the first post I will cover the following content:

1. Brief Summary of what is Jekyll and what are the advantages of using it
2. Requirements and folder structure
3. Preliminary configuration of the config.yml file
4. Summary and next post

Disclaimer and requirements

This guide is based on MacOS.

What is Jekyll and what are the advantages of... read more

Yes, this is yet another Python installation guide. However, it is different from most as I verified the steps and it should run smoothly without errors when you have a clean OS installation. I’ve used MacOS Catalina freshly installed.

How this is going to work? I’m going to give you the sequence of steps that you need to run to install Python, the virtual environment manager, Jupyter notebook and Oh My Zsh. Starting from a basic terminal …

The Vanilla version of iTerm2

You will obtain a poweruser terminal similar to this

read more

What would you do if you had tool that could decrease the time spent trying to understand the patterns and behaviors of currently active crypto coins? Imagine an app that supports your crypto coin analysis, that’s what I’m building.

This is my first article in a while. Checking in, my last piece was in 2020, during the first months of global lockdowns. A lot happened to me and to the rest of the world since then. However, my need and will to create content, improve my technical capabilities, and become financially independent never disappeared.

In 2022, I want to produce... read more

Why investing in the financial market is important

It’s been a couple of years that I tried to become more proficient in investing. The basic assumption is that, unlike my father, I won’t have access to a comfortable state pension once I’m around my retirement age. Actually, nowadays retirement ages are keeping increasing, thus I believe there is a risk that I will have to continue working until 80 years old… This is something I’d like to avoid, if possible!

For this reason, I started with simple ETFs, using Dollar-Cost Averaging. This strategy is very simple and doesn’t... read more

COVID-19 is a great opportunity to reflect on ourselves and to dedicate time and effort to things we normally cannot do during our normal busy lives. Hence, I decided to start writing my first Data Science related blog post.

In my first post I will cover the following content:

1. Pull data from a website in the form of a csv and load it into Pandas
2. Evaluate the data, manipulate and clean the data
3. Visualize major trends in the data using matlpotlib, plotly and bokeh

Disclaimer and requirements

Everyone needs to start somewhere. Being my first post, I... read more

I’ve imagined this tutorial as a series of posts, to share my experience in building a static website based on Jekyll. I hope this will be helpful to help you getting started in building your own website based on Jekyll.

In the first post I will cover the following content:

1. Brief Summary of what is Jekyll and what are the advantages of using it
2. Requirements and folder structure
3. Preliminary configuration of the config.yml file
4. Summary and next post

Disclaimer and requirements

This guide is based on MacOS.

What is Jekyll and what are the advantages of... read more

Yes, this is yet another Python installation guide. However, it is different from most as I verified the steps and it should run smoothly without errors when you have a clean OS installation. I’ve used MacOS Catalina freshly installed.

How this is going to work? I’m going to give you the sequence of steps that you need to run to install Python, the virtual environment manager, Jupyter notebook and Oh My Zsh. Starting from a basic terminal …

The Vanilla version of iTerm2

You will obtain a poweruser terminal similar to this

read more

Why investing in the financial market is important

It’s been a couple of years that I tried to become more proficient in investing. The basic assumption is that, unlike my father, I won’t have access to a comfortable state pension once I’m around my retirement age. Actually, nowadays retirement ages are keeping increasing, thus I believe there is a risk that I will have to continue working until 80 years old… This is something I’d like to avoid, if possible!

For this reason, I started with simple ETFs, using Dollar-Cost Averaging. This strategy is very simple and doesn’t... read more

Only 0.45% of science PhDs that graduate every year will ever become professors. You better start looking for alternatives.

If you are attending a PhD programme, chances are you consider yourself quite smart. Most likely you are very dedicated and you possess the grit to go down an intense and challenging path… But do you really think you are part of the 0.45% 1?

The number of doctoral degrees awarded has more than doubled since between 2000 and 2018. In the academic job market that keeps shrinking and is becoming more and more competitive, the opportunities for the... read more

Only 0.45% of science PhDs that graduate every year will ever become professors. You better start looking for alternatives.

If you are attending a PhD programme, chances are you consider yourself quite smart. Most likely you are very dedicated and you possess the grit to go down an intense and challenging path… But do you really think you are part of the 0.45% 1?

The number of doctoral degrees awarded has more than doubled since between 2000 and 2018. In the academic job market that keeps shrinking and is becoming more and more competitive, the opportunities for the... read more

Make good use of a pandemic world lock down.

I'm currently in lock down mode. Ireland is not waiting for the Coronavirus pandemic to spread too broadly. Offices are closed (or closing), employees are asked to work from home and schools are closed. During my morning run I observed a city that is still very much active, nothing resembling the safe isolation of my home country (Italy).

However, this is a good compromise between waiting for the herd immunity to kick in and the full lock down mode applied... read more

What would you do if you had tool that could decrease the time spent trying to understand the patterns and behaviors of currently active crypto coins? Imagine an app that supports your crypto coin analysis, that’s what I’m building.

This is my first article in a while. Checking in, my last piece was in 2020, during the first months of global lockdowns. A lot happened to me and to the rest of the world since then. However, my need and will to create content, improve my technical capabilities, and become financially independent never disappeared.

In 2022, I want to produce... read more

Everything starts for a reason…I was playing around with some messy data that I wanted to tame for a personal data science project. I automatically, without thinking, imported the data in Python.

I got bored. Python is not the elective language to clean and manage data. Personally, I have experience and I’m comfortable using SQL which is my go-to language to manage clean and wrangle data. SQL has the advantage of being extremely efficient in transforming operations and pre-exploratory data analysis.

What are the advantages of SQL ETL versus Python ETL? I recently came across an article that compared... read more

I’m personally bombarded by articles and videos revolving around Python. Based on my experience however, SQL is the most fundamental tool that you will need from day one in any data role.

In this article I make the point that, based on my experience, SQL is the most important language you can learn when changing career and approaching data science. I started a quest to find the data that confirmed my hypothesis.

To help others that are in the process of learning SQL to understand the language faster, I started a series of lessons to explain SQL in plain English.... read more

COVID-19 is a great opportunity to reflect on ourselves and to dedicate time and effort to things we normally cannot do during our normal busy lives. Hence, I decided to start writing my first Data Science related blog post.

In my first post I will cover the following content:

1. Pull data from a website in the form of a csv and load it into Pandas
2. Evaluate the data, manipulate and clean the data
3. Visualize major trends in the data using matlpotlib, plotly and bokeh

Disclaimer and requirements

Everyone needs to start somewhere. Being my first post, I... read more

What would you do if you had tool that could decrease the time spent trying to understand the patterns and behaviors of currently active crypto coins? Imagine an app that supports your crypto coin analysis, that’s what I’m building.

This is my first article in a while. Checking in, my last piece was in 2020, during the first months of global lockdowns. A lot happened to me and to the rest of the world since then. However, my need and will to create content, improve my technical capabilities, and become financially independent never disappeared.

In 2022, I want to produce... read more

Everything starts for a reason…I was playing around with some messy data that I wanted to tame for a personal data science project. I automatically, without thinking, imported the data in Python.

I got bored. Python is not the elective language to clean and manage data. Personally, I have experience and I’m comfortable using SQL which is my go-to language to manage clean and wrangle data. SQL has the advantage of being extremely efficient in transforming operations and pre-exploratory data analysis.

What are the advantages of SQL ETL versus Python ETL? I recently came across an article that compared... read more

I’m personally bombarded by articles and videos revolving around Python. Based on my experience however, SQL is the most fundamental tool that you will need from day one in any data role.

In this article I make the point that, based on my experience, SQL is the most important language you can learn when changing career and approaching data science. I started a quest to find the data that confirmed my hypothesis.

To help others that are in the process of learning SQL to understand the language faster, I started a series of lessons to explain SQL in plain English.... read more

I’ve imagined this tutorial as a series of posts, to share my experience in building a static website based on Jekyll. I hope this will be helpful to help you getting started in building your own website based on Jekyll.

In the first post I will cover the following content:

1. Brief Summary of what is Jekyll and what are the advantages of using it
2. Requirements and folder structure
3. Preliminary configuration of the config.yml file
4. Summary and next post

Disclaimer and requirements

This guide is based on MacOS.

What is Jekyll and what are the advantages of... read more

Everything starts for a reason…I was playing around with some messy data that I wanted to tame for a personal data science project. I automatically, without thinking, imported the data in Python.

I got bored. Python is not the elective language to clean and manage data. Personally, I have experience and I’m comfortable using SQL which is my go-to language to manage clean and wrangle data. SQL has the advantage of being extremely efficient in transforming operations and pre-exploratory data analysis.

What are the advantages of SQL ETL versus Python ETL? I recently came across an article that compared... read more

I’m personally bombarded by articles and videos revolving around Python. Based on my experience however, SQL is the most fundamental tool that you will need from day one in any data role.

In this article I make the point that, based on my experience, SQL is the most important language you can learn when changing career and approaching data science. I started a quest to find the data that confirmed my hypothesis.

To help others that are in the process of learning SQL to understand the language faster, I started a series of lessons to explain SQL in plain English.... read more

What would you do if you had tool that could decrease the time spent trying to understand the patterns and behaviors of currently active crypto coins? Imagine an app that supports your crypto coin analysis, that’s what I’m building.

This is my first article in a while. Checking in, my last piece was in 2020, during the first months of global lockdowns. A lot happened to me and to the rest of the world since then. However, my need and will to create content, improve my technical capabilities, and become financially independent never disappeared.

In 2022, I want to produce... read more

Everything starts for a reason…I was playing around with some messy data that I wanted to tame for a personal data science project. I automatically, without thinking, imported the data in Python.

I got bored. Python is not the elective language to clean and manage data. Personally, I have experience and I’m comfortable using SQL which is my go-to language to manage clean and wrangle data. SQL has the advantage of being extremely efficient in transforming operations and pre-exploratory data analysis.

What are the advantages of SQL ETL versus Python ETL? I recently came across an article that compared... read more

I’m personally bombarded by articles and videos revolving around Python. Based on my experience however, SQL is the most fundamental tool that you will need from day one in any data role.

In this article I make the point that, based on my experience, SQL is the most important language you can learn when changing career and approaching data science. I started a quest to find the data that confirmed my hypothesis.

To help others that are in the process of learning SQL to understand the language faster, I started a series of lessons to explain SQL in plain English.... read more

Why investing in the financial market is important

It’s been a couple of years that I tried to become more proficient in investing. The basic assumption is that, unlike my father, I won’t have access to a comfortable state pension once I’m around my retirement age. Actually, nowadays retirement ages are keeping increasing, thus I believe there is a risk that I will have to continue working until 80 years old… This is something I’d like to avoid, if possible!

For this reason, I started with simple ETFs, using Dollar-Cost Averaging. This strategy is very simple and doesn’t... read more

COVID-19 is a great opportunity to reflect on ourselves and to dedicate time and effort to things we normally cannot do during our normal busy lives. Hence, I decided to start writing my first Data Science related blog post.

In my first post I will cover the following content:

1. Pull data from a website in the form of a csv and load it into Pandas
2. Evaluate the data, manipulate and clean the data
3. Visualize major trends in the data using matlpotlib, plotly and bokeh

Disclaimer and requirements

Everyone needs to start somewhere. Being my first post, I... read more

I’ve imagined this tutorial as a series of posts, to share my experience in building a static website based on Jekyll. I hope this will be helpful to help you getting started in building your own website based on Jekyll.

In the first post I will cover the following content:

1. Brief Summary of what is Jekyll and what are the advantages of using it
2. Requirements and folder structure
3. Preliminary configuration of the config.yml file
4. Summary and next post

Disclaimer and requirements

This guide is based on MacOS.

What is Jekyll and what are the advantages of... read more

Why investing in the financial market is important

It’s been a couple of years that I tried to become more proficient in investing. The basic assumption is that, unlike my father, I won’t have access to a comfortable state pension once I’m around my retirement age. Actually, nowadays retirement ages are keeping increasing, thus I believe there is a risk that I will have to continue working until 80 years old… This is something I’d like to avoid, if possible!

For this reason, I started with simple ETFs, using Dollar-Cost Averaging. This strategy is very simple and doesn’t... read more

Yes, this is yet another Python installation guide. However, it is different from most as I verified the steps and it should run smoothly without errors when you have a clean OS installation. I’ve used MacOS Catalina freshly installed.

How this is going to work? I’m going to give you the sequence of steps that you need to run to install Python, the virtual environment manager, Jupyter notebook and Oh My Zsh. Starting from a basic terminal …

The Vanilla version of iTerm2

You will obtain a poweruser terminal similar to this

read more

What would you do if you had tool that could decrease the time spent trying to understand the patterns and behaviors of currently active crypto coins? Imagine an app that supports your crypto coin analysis, that’s what I’m building.

This is my first article in a while. Checking in, my last piece was in 2020, during the first months of global lockdowns. A lot happened to me and to the rest of the world since then. However, my need and will to create content, improve my technical capabilities, and become financially independent never disappeared.

In 2022, I want to produce... read more

Why investing in the financial market is important

It’s been a couple of years that I tried to become more proficient in investing. The basic assumption is that, unlike my father, I won’t have access to a comfortable state pension once I’m around my retirement age. Actually, nowadays retirement ages are keeping increasing, thus I believe there is a risk that I will have to continue working until 80 years old… This is something I’d like to avoid, if possible!

For this reason, I started with simple ETFs, using Dollar-Cost Averaging. This strategy is very simple and doesn’t... read more

Everything starts for a reason…I was playing around with some messy data that I wanted to tame for a personal data science project. I automatically, without thinking, imported the data in Python.

I got bored. Python is not the elective language to clean and manage data. Personally, I have experience and I’m comfortable using SQL which is my go-to language to manage clean and wrangle data. SQL has the advantage of being extremely efficient in transforming operations and pre-exploratory data analysis.

What are the advantages of SQL ETL versus Python ETL? I recently came across an article that compared... read more

Everything starts for a reason…I was playing around with some messy data that I wanted to tame for a personal data science project. I automatically, without thinking, imported the data in Python.

I got bored. Python is not the elective language to clean and manage data. Personally, I have experience and I’m comfortable using SQL which is my go-to language to manage clean and wrangle data. SQL has the advantage of being extremely efficient in transforming operations and pre-exploratory data analysis.

What are the advantages of SQL ETL versus Python ETL? I recently came across an article that compared... read more

What would you do if you had tool that could decrease the time spent trying to understand the patterns and behaviors of currently active crypto coins? Imagine an app that supports your crypto coin analysis, that’s what I’m building.

This is my first article in a while. Checking in, my last piece was in 2020, during the first months of global lockdowns. A lot happened to me and to the rest of the world since then. However, my need and will to create content, improve my technical capabilities, and become financially independent never disappeared.

In 2022, I want to produce... read more

Why investing in the financial market is important

It’s been a couple of years that I tried to become more proficient in investing. The basic assumption is that, unlike my father, I won’t have access to a comfortable state pension once I’m around my retirement age. Actually, nowadays retirement ages are keeping increasing, thus I believe there is a risk that I will have to continue working until 80 years old… This is something I’d like to avoid, if possible!

For this reason, I started with simple ETFs, using Dollar-Cost Averaging. This strategy is very simple and doesn’t... read more

COVID-19 is a great opportunity to reflect on ourselves and to dedicate time and effort to things we normally cannot do during our normal busy lives. Hence, I decided to start writing my first Data Science related blog post.

In my first post I will cover the following content:

1. Pull data from a website in the form of a csv and load it into Pandas
2. Evaluate the data, manipulate and clean the data
3. Visualize major trends in the data using matlpotlib, plotly and bokeh

Disclaimer and requirements

Everyone needs to start somewhere. Being my first post, I... read more

I’ve imagined this tutorial as a series of posts, to share my experience in building a static website based on Jekyll. I hope this will be helpful to help you getting started in building your own website based on Jekyll.

In the first post I will cover the following content:

1. Brief Summary of what is Jekyll and what are the advantages of using it
2. Requirements and folder structure
3. Preliminary configuration of the config.yml file
4. Summary and next post

Disclaimer and requirements

This guide is based on MacOS.

What is Jekyll and what are the advantages of... read more