Francesco Civardi

I’m an ante-litteram Data Scientist, having almost 30 year experience

in data management, data analysis and mathematical and statistical

modeling. I'm interested in Artificial Intelligence, Predictive Analytics,

Data Mining, Natural Language Processing, Statistics, Mathematical

Modeling, Business Intelligence, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Data

Warehousing. I've been providing consultancy and implementing

solutions for more than 10 years, using data science, data mining,

analytics, prediction models and OLAP, in order to help e-commerce

players, financial institutions and retailers raise and reach their

business goals.

I coauthored the "Bible" of MDX, the language used to query

multidimensional databases.

I've taught Data Science and Business Intelligence in Universities

and Enterprises.

I've worked both in the business and in the scientific sector (data

mining in oncology); this allows me to mix ideas coming from very

different areas - like, for instance, using Survival Analysis techniques

to analyze Customer Retention, or – vice versa – using Market

Basket and Social Network Analysis to analyze cancer predictors,

or to identify the factors contributing to adverse effects of cancer

therapies. Btw, I've been (fingers crossed) a cancer patient as well,

so I know what I'm talking about.

In my career, I've worked as a control engineer in chemical

plants, as a market analyst in a multinational company, as a

data warehouse developer for banks, as a BI specialist, as a BI

enterpreneur and as a Data Scientist in e-commerce and in clinical

research. I strongly believe in transdisciplinarity and in Bisociative

Thinking. According to Arthur Koestler, "The pattern underlying the

creative act is the perceiving of a situation or idea, L, in two self-

consistent but habitually incompatible frames of reference, M1 and

M2". (A. Koestler, "The act of creation", 1964)