[Filippo Galli]

#1417

@paolomarenco brilliant!

[Filippo Galli]

#1316

@pietromarenco Hi Pietro, I always had a hard time defining what Networking is and means, anyways, here is what I think of it.

Q1: Networking is in general the activity related to connecting different points. In this particular case, each point in the net is a person and each link is a relationship. In the context of jobs and work, a relationship is not necessarily associated with friendship, but surely involves amounts of emotional intelligence. Two steps are fundamental: 1) getting to know other people and environments; 2) let other people know you better.

Q2: Being a working student employed in centers with a huge number of interns, I usually network during 1) lunchtime in the canteens, 2) conferences and talks held in different auditoriums, 3) university-related events (e.g. hackatons). I also use LinkedIn, but for networking I prefer a face-to-face approach, as the emotional intelligence component is completely left out on social media. This is a step I want to underline, since I happened to meet a lot of people with awesome CV’s completely lacking of a friendly side being left behind because of their approach.
The end goal of networking is to improve the current (working, mostly) situation of an individual. An improvement is not necessarily related to revenues but also to the environment and the human realization in the job itself. It is hard to pursue an enhancement in one’s condition when he/she is not able to make feel comfortable everyone around them.

Q3: Often it is just a matter of starting a conversation: from there one can find common topics of interest and start building a relationship. In general, I would say that every skill associated with public speaking and self-confidence is key when networking, as by definition you will be talking with strangers. Attending conferences is, in particular, a good way to do so, as other people attending will be interested in the same topic as yours. Moreover, many times buffet/aperitifs are offered before/after talks, which help encouraging a laid back environment.

[Filippo Galli]

#1314

@paolomarenco Thanks for the advices. I find myself interested in AI. You already have my CV but if you’d like to send it to Skydreamer, please attach also my paper (you can find it here http://bit.ly/2o8fYwE) on AI and neural networks for robotic navigation.

[Filippo Galli]

#1049

I apologize for the awful formatting, I don’t know why I am having problems with the lists. I rewrite my comment here since I also can’t edit my post, apparently.

Wow @gabrielgatu, I think yours is one of the most interesting contributions in this thread. I was not aware of these concerns on a possible bubble popping anytime soon, although I also wandered how it is possible for this new kind of economy to be sustainable. If we think about it,

+ Airbnb is one of the biggest accommodation services and doesn’t own a single house
+ Uber is one of the biggest cab services, and doesn’t own a car
+ Facebook is one of the biggest sources of information, but doesn’t produce any of them
+ same applies for YouTube, and a huge number of web-based services

Clearly, their value is in the service they offer, but no goods are actually traded. This makes it a very volatile economy, and subject to governmental regulations (think about Uber and Airbnb which are the clearest examples) that can change at any time.

[Filippo Galli]

#1045

Wow @gabrielgatu, I think yours is one of the most interesting contributions in this thread. I was not aware of these concerns on a possible bubble popping anytime soon, although I also wandered how it is possible for this new kind of economy to be sustainable. If we think about it,

• Airbnb is one of the biggest accommodation services and doesn’t own a single house
• Uber is one of the biggest cab services, and doesn’t own a car
• Facebook is one of the biggest sources of information, but doesn’t produce any of them
• same applies for YouTube, and a huge number of web-based services

  Clearly, their value is in the service they offer, but no goods are actually traded. This makes it a very volatile economy, and subject to governmental regulations (think about Uber and Airbnb which are the clearest examples) that can change at any time.

[Filippo Galli]

#981

Well, just to clarify what I mean: behavioral data are way more reliable than questionnaires/surveys when it comes to profiling costumers. In this context, social acceptance has a more prominent role in how we judge (rating a movie) rather than how we act (binge watching a series), and Netflix’ success itself is a proof of this. I remember a seminar I attended in Pasadena, CA, in which some Data Analyst (whose name I don’t remember) considered this approach a standard in the field, while analysing questionnaires is nowadays obsolete – of course when you can actually access huge amount of behavioral information.

In other contexts, like social life, you are probably right.

[Filippo Galli]

#968

@leonardo I read the article you just posted, and I am also surprised by how easy it is to work around privacy issues by simply… changing the meaning of a term!

On a more lightweight note, I’d like to suggest you this reading about how Netflix has taken over the market of movie streaming services by an accurate analysis of their custumer data.  Especially, I want to underline the importance of paying more attention to what the customer does, rather than what the customer says. The information contained in one user letting pass a lot of time from one episode to the following, or a user quitting a series, is way more important than the rating the same user would give to the series itself.
We, as humans, are often biased in our judgements by many factors, but our actions reflect what we really think about something.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/amazing-ways-netflix-uses-big-data-drive-success-bernard-marr

 

[Filippo Galli]

#879

Being honest I do not fully agree with you because drones are still in an early stage of development. Three grounds to back my statement are:

1) drones fill up a lot of article papers and researches (for example the link you shared, or my master thesis ahah) but have a hard life when it comes to the industry, with the notable exception of the film industry

2) when they make it to reach the market/industry level, often the results are poor, even though they are often much fun (Parrot is one of the greatest drone companies, and their most performing machine flies for ~20 mins)

3) A less technical reason: flight legislation often makes it hard for an industry to satisfy costumer demand, especially in Italy, for safety reasons.

This is why I’d prefer ground mobile robotics for data harvesting. But I am trying to understand why there are not many companies already in the field, I am probably missing something.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by Filippo Galli. Reason: Terrible formatting

[Filippo Galli]

#877

These articles on the US president and his use of digital advertising (and hence big data for personalized ads) are really interesting, and sure are part of a broader discussion on how most of the american presidents that overturned the results of an election were those who were smarter in adopting new medias and using them properly: Lincoln with the telegraph, Roosevelt with the radio, Clinton with the TV and now Trump with social media.

Bringing the topic back to Big Data and the industry, being interested in the applications of IoT, big data and robotics in agriculture, I would like to hear from you if you are aware of any existing technology that exploits the pervasivity of computing of our days to build huge databases. Some clear examples of these applications are linked with personal data harvesting. But when it comes to environmental or biological data? One example that comes to my mind is meteorology (which in general is not an industry).

Do you know of others?

 

[Filippo Galli]

#838

Hi everyone,

I am Filippo Galli, and thank you all for the contributions you are making on the topic. As all of you, I am interested in the field of Big Data, IoT, and for what concerns myself, in robotics.

@leonardo there are indeed lots of laws regarding frones flying above a certain height and above some levels of mass. I think Fotokite went over the problem in a very smart way, look it up, I find it very interesting.

@foreversin I concur with you on the great possibilities offered by I4.0 in the agricultural field (no pun intended). An early stage development of drones applications in this regard is in the hands of the GdF: during grape harvesting in my region drones sometimes fly over vineyards to look for possible illegal workforce, overcoming useless money waste in flying helicopters.

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