In one of my previus posts about cognitive biases I mentioned the Occam’s razor principle. When it comes to data insights this is sometimes a very useful principle to keep in mind because data does’nt give insights itself but we are always asked to give our interpretation to the data, […]
“if you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything”. Ronald H. Coase, British Economist When working with a big dataset it’s easy to fall into the confirmation bias. We are looking for some insights, and usually what happens is that even before looking at the data we […]
In Turin there is an ancient church named Santuario della Consolata (its full name is “Chiesa di Santa Maria della Consolazione”), it’s origin dates back to the XVII century. The interior is very rich, with gold inlays everywhere on the walls and arches, and wonderful frescoes surrounded by pink carrara […]
So after reading the Bananas Diet post we are now familiar with the causality bias concept. Another example of causailty bias i came across a few years ago for the first time is the black car crashes one. Articles like this one show that based on data anyone can conduct […]
What does Bananas and Black cars have in common? why correlation does not imply causality?
What’s a data bias? Why one of the most common one is called “survivor bias”? what’s a romanic bridge? And what does it have to do with WWII allies planes?
In my previous post about data visualization I have focused on different ways to present a dataset, however a very important aspect that we always underestimate and do not consider as fundamental is the data preparation one. It is widely known that a data scientist spends most of his working […]
A few months ago (i just realized while typing it’s almost already a year ago) i took an R course to learn how it can help with data visualization, and i have to admit it has been quite useful even for my day to day where i am not specifically […]
1984 – I bet everyone has played at least once this game. I personally found it very addictive and i still play it from time to time, tho i preferred the arcade version and the original game boy porting. Here is my personal arrangement for a srtring quartet.
This track was entirly built starting from the acappella voice. Smooth and sweet, with a dreamy reathm.
It’s August 18th and it has been raining the entire morning and part of the afternoon. And the temperature dropped down to 19 degrees. What an autumn mood i had…
I just found this old track of mine in my “beats skatches” folder and figured out it could be a decent track to work on. Less then 1 hour later, here is the end result. I hope you like it.
1988 – Capcom. This was an arcade game i’ve played for a very long time, even today it’s one of my favourite ones to play with MAME. I know the stage1 music by heart, and i decided to remix it sticking as much as possible to the original mood. I […]
1990 – LucasArts. Ron Gilbert’s Point and click adventures have been a huge milestone in videogame industry, in my opinion also thanks to the great soundtrack that contributed to create a real masterpiece. Here is my tribute version to the famous “LeChuck’s Theme”.
1986 – Sega. Among other arcade games, OutRun has been the one where i believe i spent most of my youth pocket money on. I still remember the feeling of inserting the coin(s) and getting to choose the soundtrack as if i was about to drive that Ferrari Testarossa for […]
From Pong to Asteroids, from Defender to Gyruss… this track is a mix of all the sounds of my childhood! I hope you enjoy, I had a lot of fun making it!
This track was an experimental beat to test some Ableton Live 10 features. It turned out to be a very original crescendo track, hence the Rhapsody reference in the title.
1986 – Sega Among other arcade games, OutRun has been the one where i believe i spent most of my youth pocket money on. I still remember the feeling of inserting the coin(s) and getting to choose the soundtrack as if i was about to drive that Ferrari Testarossa for […]
When making a choice for virtually anything in your life you will have to ponderate the pros and cons, especially if you are the type of person like me that likes to create lists. Usually the choice between items to purchase, or services to subscribe to, gets down to feature […]
A great performance, so clean and classy: Jazz Aces, card in wallet, colori changing deck
My experience with Matomo Analytics is moving forward now and i’ve ditched the Cloud version to test the OnPremise version. Since there are two option i chose to opt for the WordPress version, as i thought it would be much easier to install. The installation process has been quite straight-forward, […]
L’uso dei dati di prima parte è un must per fare del buon marketing ma i numerosi cambiamenti previsti in merito all’uso di Google Analytics in Europa hanno scosso profondamente il mondo digital e gli addetti ai lavori (aka marketer). Infatti, le sentenze emanate in Francia e Austria hanno fatto […]
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Come convivere in uno scenario tecnologico sempre più complesso senza per questo sacrificare il ruolo dei dati nei processi decisionali? Durante il workshop tenuto in occasione di Netcomm Forum Extended 2021, ho risposto a questa domanda con un approfondimento sulle diverse metodologie di raccolta dati a disposizione dei marketer. La […]
This track was inspired by many songs from the king of Disco Music Giorgio Moroder. After listening to Daft Punk’s “Giorgio by Moroder” song i realized how much influence this man had in Disco Music creating his own way to composing music. He is basically the one that brought sinthetizers […]
This track is an experimental song where 80’s chipsound based techno beat evolves into a 90’s full-featured techno beat. I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as i did producing it!
This is a track i made to experiment with some Ableton Live 9 effects in conjunction with Max for Live. I’ve used Depeche Mode lead’s voice Dave Gahan sample from Enjoy the Silence. The rest of the song is completely original.
Inspired by Muse that used this same speach from JFK (in the omonimous track “JFK” of the albume “drones”) i came up with this darky track. I hope you enjoy it.
This track was originally made as soundtrack for a personal video project, still work in progress. I’ve enjoyed the end result so much that i’ve decided to publish it also on Soundcloud. Here it is, i hope you like it! Enjoy!
This track of mine was inspired by various movie soundtracks and i’ve produced it with no reference to any in particular. The mood is kind of spy-thiller and builds up nicely and smoothly. I hope you like it as much as i do. In case you wonder this picture was […]
This track is my renaissance because it’s the first one i’ve produced after 14 years of break from music. It represents my first attemp to produce something with new gear such as Ableton Live 9 and Ableton Push. After 18 months i still like to listen to it from time […]
1986 – Taito. Originally composed by Tadashi Kimijima, the main Bubble Bobble theme has accompained my childhood like no other videogame soundtrack. It’s been years since my last game with this arcade but as soon as i listen to it’s original soundtrak it immediately pops in my head and i […]
1992 – Psygnosis. I’ve loaded Agony’s disk on my old Amiga 500 literally a countless number of times, but I can’t recall the game itself. Why? because i didn’t load the game to play the it, but just to listen to the intro soundtrack over and over and over again, […]
1988 – Taito. This was one of the cutest games i’ve been playing as a child. Who wouldn’t love a little yellow kiwi (but i thought it was just a simple chick) that needs to defeat enemies in order to rescue all other kiwis that have been kidnapped. I also […]
1987 – Time Warp Productions – Rainbow Arts. This game was a perfect clone of Super Mario Bros videogame, but i remember it for it’s nice intro soundtrack by Chris Hülsbeck. This is my own remixed version where i’ve used the main theme and orchestrated it with a Cello and […]
1990 – Nintendo My favourite game on the Super Nintendo console, by one of my favourite videogames music composer, Kōji Kondō. This is my own “orchestral” version, where i’ve managed to change the whole sound mood while keeping all the original notes in place.
1991 – Capcom. This whole game had a distinct soundtrack for each character’s level. This particular one is the Vega character and is distinguishible from the others thanks to its westernish/spanishish sound and rithm.
1985 – Sega. The simple yet engaging soundtrack was accompaining the player while virtually riding the motorbike in 5 leverls of adrenalinic racing and breathtaking overtakes. I remember playing this game more for it’s engaging soundtrack then for the game itself.
1993 – IdSoftware. I’ve played Doom for days and days. I’ve created also my own mods. But i’ve lost all the files. Sometimes i wonder if i would have become a game programmer if i was born in a different place. Reading “masters of doom” made me think about it. […]
1987 – Technos Japan Corporation / Taito. This game was one of the first co-op games i’ve played. I still can feel the pain in my right-hand’s fingers that reminds me the thousend times i’ve pushed that kick red button on the arcade cabinet. I remember my favourite weapon was […]
Qui il mio workshop al “WAW – Web Analytics World” su come dare un valore strategico al business aziendale sfruttando i dati.
This video explains well what the EU cookie law means.
One page tagged, 6 Web Analytics tools configured… one table comparing results So, tagging is tagging, right? If i tag a page with multiple tags i expect the Analytics reports to be in-line, and if not that at least the delta between trends over time.. (every WA solution has its […]
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A “castell” is a human tower built traditionally in festivals at many locations within Catalonia. At these festivals, several colles castelleres or teams often succeed in building and dismantling a tower’s structure. On November 16, 2010, castells were declared by UNESCO to be amongst the Masterpieces of the Oral and […]
Here is an interesting infographic to visually see how Opera doesn’t grow nor shrink over time… will it be like in the Highlander movie? “There can be only one!” ??? 🙂
Eames Lounge Chair Manufacturing in the Vitra Atelier We have visited the Vitra Campus at the end of 2010 while being in Basel for New Year’s evening and it was worth the journey. Really worth it! But now that i’ve found this video I think it’s even better. Watch the video. Do […]