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 could help build a CPI for countries where authoritarian regimes may be misrepresenting inflation statistics. The case study for this exercise is Nicaragua, but the code…

A Python-Dash app made for long-term investments — Let’s start with a Maxim: save as much as you can and invest periodically. Unless you are a professional trader, it’s best to focus on your career, art, passion; most people don’t achieve financial independence without hard work. …

This is an experiment to contrast labor income as reported in household surveys -for a rich set of Latin American countries- with Benford’s law. This ‘first digit law’ states that in a collection of numbers the first digits [a.k.a. ‘1’, ‘2’, ‘3’] concentrate most of the distribution. Benford’s law has…

This post presents a twitter sentiment analysis that aims at better understanding what Brazilian twitter users have to say about the ongoing process of pension reform (PEC 006–2019). Particularly, this blog covers i) data extraction and description, ii) Natural Language Processing (NLP) illustrations, and iii) Machine Learning (ML) classification models…