Tracking consumer price statistics in real-time with data from Walmart (part 1.1)With causes varying from the pandemic economic rebound to the war in Ukraine, inflation is soaring all over the world in 2022. From…May 25, 2022May 25, 2022
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and built a Walmart Consumer Price Index (CPI) (Part I)The intuit for this story can be dark, so let’s keep it short. I created this Python-Selenium crawler to assess whether data from Walmart…Jan 12, 2022Jan 12, 2022
Benford’s law and household survey’s reported income in Latin AmericaThis is an experiment to contrast labor income as reported in household surveys -for a rich set of Latin American countries- with…Aug 8, 2020Aug 8, 2020
Twitter sentiment analysis: what does people say about Brazil’s ongoing pension reform?This post presents a twitter sentiment analysis that aims at better understanding what Brazilian tweeter users have to say about the…Sep 19, 20191Sep 19, 20191
