Last week I had the opportunity to present our work, "Investigating the Impact of Advertising on Smoking Cessation: The Role of Direct-to-Consumer Prescription Drug Advertising," co-authored with Ali Goli, at the Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS). It was a great experience engaging with a multidisciplinary audience and discussing …
If you're someone who works with data and runs computationally-intensive tasks, you know that multiprocessing can be a game changer. It can speed up your work significantly and save you precious time. I previously used the multiprocessing Python package for running my jobs concurrently, but that didn’t always go …
Abstract: Graphs are a common language in modeling several problems, from social and economic networks to interactions in cells and brain neurons. According to the availability of an enormous amount of data from graphs, Machine Learning algorithms gained lots of attention in this area. But …
Last week I had the chance to attend the ICTP workshop on science of data science.
From the very beginning of landing at Venice to the last moments of my visit, there was lots of learning for me. Not just from the lectures, but from all the people I've met …
A researcher may be evaluated based on several measures such as the total number of published papers, number of citations, and her/his h-index. These measures may not reflect the real quality of researchers as many self citations and citing …
