Hi! I’m Xavi Guardiola ^[1]. I was born and still live in El Vendrell, Catalonia.

On my CV it says I’m a Data Scientist. However, I see myself more as a Polymath. I love learning about all kinds of things despite not being good at any.

As a kid my dream was to create video-games. However, I ended up being a scientist. Blame Carl Sagan for that. I got my Ph.D in Physics back in 2001 working on Complex Systems ^[2]. Since then, I’ve been working on what nowadays people call Data Science at 3 start-up companies I cofounded (Simpple, Woices and Ilustrum) and now at King (Activision-Blizzard). So, guess what, I ended up working in video-games.

For all the gory details, check my linked in profile.

This site is a multilingual assembly of random stuff. Do not expect much consistency or coherence. Actually, this is my third attempt at keeping a blog alive, after Tocant al Panoràmic (2004-05) and L’illa del logaritme (2007-09). You’ve been warned.

X.

[1]: I totally suck at remembering names. So here’s a fun fact to remember mine:

[2]: I love books! Few things bring me more joy than recommending them. So I will seize this opportunity to illustrate the things I worked on while I was still in the academia with these wonderful popular science books. All of them are a pleasure to read!

• Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick.
• Sync: How Order Emerges from Chaos in the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life by Steven Strogatz.
• How Nature Works: the science of self-organized criticality by Per Bak.
• Games of Life: Explorations in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior by Karl Sigmund