Anna Gottard

Thank you, 2025, for all the models that were perfect on training data and then failed spectacularly. Overfitting keeps us humble. Also, thank you for making “it depends” the correct answer more often than not. In 2026, may we at least know WHAT it depends on. 🥳 #datascience

On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, we are reminded of the work still ahead and the responsibility we share. We can help create a world where every woman feels safe, respected, and free to live, study, and work without fear #EndVAW

On 23 Oct 2025 we welcomed colleagues from @OsloMet to the Florence Center for Data Science. Many thanks for a stimulating day of discussion — we look forward to future collaboration. Photo: lunch with the FDS Think Tank. #AcademicCollab #DataScience

MD2SL — 2nd Level Master in Data Science & Statistical Learning • in English| 67 ECTS | 225-hr internship • Bootcamp, core & elective courses, practical training Start: 28/01/2026 — Apply by 14/11/2025 Info: md2sl.unifi.it #DataScience #Statistics #MachineLearning

Talk, contest, esperimenti e spettacoli, visite guidate e passeggiate. Presentato oggi il programma #Unifi di #BrightNight25, Notte europea delle ricercatrici e dei ricercatori. Dal 22 al 28 settembre più di 80 eventi realizzati da 300 scienziati Unifi. u.garr.it/zRhlP

The recordings from BNP 14— the 14th International Conference on Bayesian Nonparametrics—are now live on the ISBA YouTube channel! Workshops, keynotes, and plenaries are all available for anyone interested in nonparametric Bayesian methods. tiny.cc/ISBAYouTube

Few days left for Call for Applications: Italian National PhD in Artificial Intelligence – AI & Society (2025-2028) 🎓 𝟒𝟒 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝟑-𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫PhD positions 📷 𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼 at phd-ai-society.di.unipi.it/applications/ 🗓️ 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: 18 July 2025, 13:00 (Italian time)

This week, I explain how we measure the effectiveness of COVID boosters. Link in replies.

Many thanks to Mohammad Jafari Jozani for yesterday’s engaging talk on "Rethinking Support in SVMs: An Elite-Driven Approach to Classification." We truly enjoyed it and appreciated the insightful discussion!

Hermann Minkowski was born exactly 161 years ago today. He showed that space and time form a unified four-dimensional "spacetime", a key idea that inspired Einstein’s relativity theory

#DataAISummit starts tomorrow! 20,000 attendees, 700+ sessions, keynotes, meetups, and training—all at the world’s largest data, analytics, and AI conference It’s not too late to join us. Register to attend in San Francisco or virtually: databricks.com/dataaisummit?u…

We're excited to announce the conference: "Frontiers in Data Science: A Celebration of Bianca De Stavola’s Emerit Professorship"! Big thank you to @FondazioneCRF and DiSIA ReDS (Univ of Florence) for their generous support in making this event possible. datascience.unifi.it/index.php/work…

📊 Join us for next InterConnect Webinar! ⏰ 7th April 2025 at 2:30pm (CEST) Speaker: Tom Bartlett (UCL) Title: Using stochastic network theory to inform unsupervised learning from single-cell genomic count data. Register now: @af7fbb09-23f3-4aff-8e08-0e4bec0d9ee7" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">events.teams.microsoft.com/event/ef63d48a… #DataScience

The Statistical Science special issue on Bayesian predictive inference is now out! projecteuclid.org/journals/stati…

Plenary speaker at #ICSDS2024 Martin Wainwright.

Squali sulle colline Toscane, a “pesca” di denti fossili con l’Intelligenza Artificiale archaeoreporter.com/it/2024/12/10/… Video: youtu.be/83eFamLBQK0?si…

Squali ed Intelligenza Artificiale - Otto e Mezzo Puntata del 4:12:2024 youtu.be/j3LF_z-j-dI?si… via @YouTube @CNR_IFAC @CNRsocial_

#Unifi tra le top 100 università al mondo in tre discipline nel Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2024 di Shanghai Ranking 🔹Agricultural Sciences (29°) 🔹Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences (39°) 🔹Statistics (76-100) 👉u.garr.it/UhQa0