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Good Economics

learning
policy
books

My thoughts about reading Good Economics For Hard Times
Mar 31, 2024
5 min

Recoding America

learning
policy
books

A great dive into the inner workings of digital technology in the US government
Jan 12, 2024
7 min

Original Text

R

Checking how the use of verbatim quotes in books
Nov 7, 2023
9 min

The Power to Normalize

R
dataviz

A tidytuesday inspired foray into the YeoJohnson transformation
Aug 19, 2023
7 min

goodreads

R
books

My 2023 challenge to read more women authors
Aug 6, 2023
13 min

Inequality

Makeover of Pyramid Plot
I love Future Crunch. The idea of receiving positive…
Oct 10, 2022
8 min

Icebreaker

There are many managers I admire, some of whom I was lucky personally meet, others I “know” through reading their books/blogs.
Apr 25, 2021
3 min

Queen’s Gambit

A trip down the chess rabbit hole
chess
fun
design
I love…
Feb 7, 2021
26 min

Lifeviz

art
R
I have not made new year resolutions, I made art. I also finally got some time to explore one of the little Shiny projects that were dormant in my /Project folder…
Jan 16, 2021
2 min

Rotating perspectives

generative-art
R
I have been asked to unveil a bit of what’s under the hood on this post. I…
Jan 3, 2021
4 min

Art in a New Year

generative-art
R
I have not made resolutions for this year1. I have instead spent that time playing with patterns on a canvas. It’s been a while since I wanted to have some time to do generative art using geometric figures and I…
Jan 2, 2021
2 min

Russian roulette

random
investing
There are many traders and most of them blow up at some point in their careers1. Maybe that’s why we worship those who don’t. We find rational explanations for their success, which basically boil down to saying they are…
Nov 2, 2020
4 min

A calorie is a calorie

dataviz
The…
Sep 6, 2020
10 min

Unique

fun
python
R
I have experienced a few explosions here and there. Yes, it’s me not reading the docs. But it’s also me, assuming that verbs mean one thing and not another. Let’s do some u…
Jul 5, 2020
1 min

Birthday Problem

fun
python
R
We have all been there, classic math riddle:
Jun 13, 2020
1 min

Python Keylogger

fun
python
I have been struggling a lot with pain in my fingers and wrists1.
Jun 13, 2020
3 min

Complex Fun

art
fun
R
People say…
Apr 30, 2020
4 min

The power of compounding

Paying attention to the small details sounds like a waste of time. Where’s…
Jan 20, 2020
4 min

Escribiendo en pocas palabras

Lo bueno, si breve, dos veces bueno.
Jan 2, 2020
3 min

Writing Checklist

writing
learning
DocumentingLearning
R
I spent a good portion of the end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020 reading Paul Graham’s essays. Many caught my attention…
Jan 2, 2020
4 min

Fitbit Analysis

tracking
learning
R
It’s been a bit more than a year since I got a fitbit and I have been pretty excited about tracking my activity and heart rate.…
Nov 22, 2019
17 min

On pipelines

R
data
reproducibility
I have been thinking about different problems I have when writing code and the things that I…
Nov 14, 2019
7 min

Skype a Scientist part 2

research
outreach
I have been lucky to participate in the project lead by Sarah McAnulty called Skype a scientist. I recently did two more calls with 11th grade students who attend…
Sep 13, 2019
15 min

Los mismos de siempre

Hace rato que vengo viendo ciertas tendencias de gente que hace algo de análisis de datos con la actualidad Argentina. Por ejemplo, Daniel Schteingart comúnmente publica este tipo de análisis en diversos medios. Esto me llevó a buscar datos abiertos…
Sep 10, 2019
35 min

Birthday Meritocracy

ideas
Randomness
We believe in meritocracy as one of the cornerstones of Western civilization. This idea is so embedded in our culture that we seldom question it. We praise those driven…
May 9, 2019
19 min
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