Introducing the pizza statistician!

Hello everyone!

My name's Leonardo, and I'm an Italian statistician who lives in Toronto, but you can call me Leo.

I like working with statistics, and sometimes I perform statistical analyses on open data to practice with algorithms and R/Python coding.

Talking a bit about myself, I was born in 1994 in the most culinary advanced country, Italy. I got a Bachelor of Commerce at Ancona University, and then I achieved a Master's degree in Statistics at Turin University.

I love sports, and someday I hope to work for a football team (maybe the one I support, F.C. Inter Milan). In my opinion, statistics may help players grow, develop better strategies to face opponents. For my thesis, I analyzed Italian Serie A 2016/2017 (the most important Italian football competition, if you didn't know), trying to predict the last 100 matches by examining the first 280. To do this, I analyzed all Teams' passing networks, extracted features from them to represent strategy and finally applied and tuned machine learning algorithms to make predictions. The accuracy was pretty good, around 75%. Maybe someday I'll create a post about what I've done.

I think you got it at this point. This blog posts statistical analyses on data from the Web that I find interesting my main sources for datasets are Kaggle and cities' open data websites). I aim to practice with statistical computing while learning how to build easy-to-read and efficient reports.

Because statisticians are like pizza makers: everyone can make a pizza, but only a pizzaiolo knows that to make the best pizzas, you need to put a lot of experience, love, and passion in every single dough to master their skill. So it's statistics.

Leonardo,

The pizza statistician

Here it is a photo of me at my statistics graduation