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Reports or Newspapers – The Two Sides of Healthcare Priorities

Posted on9 May 20173 June 2017

  Both the World Health Organization‘s statistical profile of Qatar and the much more detailed Annual Health Report of the Department of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics of the Sate of Qatar show beyond the shadow of a doubt that cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, hypertension, obesity and other metabolic/noncommunicable diseases are the Read More …

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The Ramones. Punk is Data, Too

Posted on7 March 20173 June 2017

  The starting point of this post is a simple question: can we use R to analyze punk bands ? And, as a result: what can we learn from applying data analytics methods to punk music ?   Whether we like it or not “punk rock is arguably the most Read More …

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Venture Capital Deals in 2016 – An Overview (2/2)

Posted on13 February 20173 June 2017

In the previous post (mostly based on EDA principles) I highlighted the main features of 1,720 Venture Capital deals that took place in 2016 in 50 different countries. It is of a central importance to once again underline that the dataset that I used is not a representative sample of Read More …

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Venture Capital Deals in 2016 – An Overview (1/2)

Posted on3 February 20173 June 2017

Over the year 2016, I manually gathered press clippings announcing Venture Capital (VC) deals from various online or newsletters public sources each time I bumped into something that caught my attention. Early January, I then put together and cleaned the data and made it R-usable as a csv dataset of Read More …

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2016, the Earthquake Annus Horribilis of Italy

Posted on23 January 20173 June 2017

There is no exaggeration in stating that historic heritage is one of the most outstanding and valuable assets of Italy. The smallest villages or the largest cities, all boast hundred- (sometimes thousand-) year old buildings of great cultural, architectural, or artistic interest. Amazingly enough, a vast majority of these ancient Read More …

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