The Author

Angelica Lo Duca

Researcher, educator, and author.

Portrait of Angelica Lo Duca

Angelica Lo Duca is a researcher at the Institute of Informatics and Telematics of the National Research Council, Italy. She is also an adjunct professor of data journalism at the University of Pisa. Her research interests include data and AI applications to different domains, with a particular focus on data storytelling. She has published over 60 scientific papers at national and international conferences and journals. She often talks at international events, including ACM Tech Talks and the United Nations. She is the author of Comet for Data Science (Packt Publishing Ltd, 2022), coauthor of Learning and Operating Presto (O’Reilly Media, 2023), Data Storytelling with Altair and AI (Manning Publications, 2024), and Become a Great Data Storyteller (Wiley, 2025). When she is not working, she loves spending time with her husband, Andrea, and her two children, Giulia and Antonio.