Is a KPI good or bad?

How to create your own KPI and live happily ever after. When trying to derive insights from a dataset and defining KPI the causality bias is a common error. Often it goes together with another common error: attributing an insight […]

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The butterfly effect

How the Roman Empire influenced US rocket science (and why fact-checking is important!) The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches (143,51 cm). That’s an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Because […]

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Occam’s razor principle

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 […]

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Data Preparation

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 […]

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Data Visualization

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 […]

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Tetris (1984)

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 […]

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Dark Light

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.

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Ghouls’n Ghosts (1988)

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 […]

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Monkey Island – 1990 – Le Chuck’s Theme

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 […]

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Outrun (1986) – Magical Sound Shower

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 […]

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Childhood Sounds

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!

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Happy Rhapsody

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.

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Outrun (1986) – Passing Breeze

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 […]

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