This is my “now” page¹. Last update: Early August 2025. [versión en español]

Open Science 🌱

Since July 2025, I have been spending most of my time as a Research Fellow at OLS, a non-profit organization that provides training and practical support to promote the adoption of open, inclusive, and collaborative research practices. Since 2023, I have also participated as a mentor in Open Seeds, their mentoring and training program for open science ambassadors.

Research Software 💾

Since 2022, I have been a Software Sustainability Institute Fellow. As part of my Fellowship, I established an RSE Community in Chile. Check out our past and upcoming events!

• I will be at RSECon in September, where I will give the talk “From open science goals to technical implementation: Enabling sustainable data sharing for a research team”. I will also be presenting at the RSE Worldwide session.

Digital Humanities + Open Scholarship + Open Publishing 📓

I’m an editor at Programming Historian. We publish multilingual, peer-reviewed tutorials that help humanists learn a wide range of open computational tools, techniques, and workflows to support research and teaching. I’m also part of the Board of Trustees of ProgHist Ltd., the non-profit that oversees Programming Historian activities.

• 📄 Together with Anisa Hawes, Anna-Maria Sichani and Charlotte Chevrie, we recently wrote the article “Sustainable growth of multilingual open publishing projects: the case of Programming Historian” for the special issue on Multilingual Publishing & Scholarship of the Journal of Electronic Publishing.

• 📚 Last year, I co-authored a book chapter (led by Jennifer Isasi) about our open project: “A Model for Multilingual and Multicultural Digital Scholarship Methods Publishing: The Case of Programming Historian.” The chapter is included in the book “Multilingual Digital Humanities”, edited by Lorella Viola and Paul Spence, and published by Routledge.

Programming/Open Source Communities of Practice 💻

• I’m part of R-Ladies’ Global Leadership Team. 🌈 R-Ladies is a worldwide organization whose mission is to promote gender diversity in the R community.
  • I gave a talk at posit::conf(2023) on how applying programming principles—such as modularity, refactoring, and testing—can support the sustainable growth of global communities like R-Ladies.
• I’m the co-founder and co-organizer of R-Ladies Santiago, R-Ladies Valparaíso, PyLadies Valparaíso.
• I’m one of the co-founders and chairs of LatinR, the Latin American Conference about the use of R in Research and Development. You still have time to propose a tutorial!
• I’m the maintainer of an R package called {datos}. 📦 The package translates on the fly the datasets used in the Spanish version of the book “R for Data Science”. I also maintain the Portuguese version of the package: {dados}
• In May, I attended PyCon US 2025 🐍, where I gave a talk in Spanish on the PyCon Charlas track about creating slides with Python and Quarto. In 2024, I presented a talk on computational reproducibility. At PyCon Chile 2024, I gave a talk on creating tables with Polars and Great Tables.

Teaching 🔧

• I teach the web scraping and text mining modules in the Data Science Specialization at the Faculty of Mathematics, Universidad Católica de Chile.

• I’m a member of the academic committee for the Professional Certification in Data Science at the Faculty of Economics and Administration, Universidad de la República, Uruguay, where I teach a module on communicating results and creating reproducible reports with Quarto.

• I teach R for data analysis and data visualization in the Master’s program in Social Research and Development at Universidad de Concepción. In 2024, I also taught a new course about using AI-based tools for social research.

• Last January, I participated in Datapalooza UC, a Data Science open event organized by the Faculty of Mathematics at Universidad Católica de Chile, where I led a workshop on web scraping with Python.

• I have also participated as a guest lecturer in the PhD program in Social Sciences at Universidad Católica del Maule. In 2024, I conducted a workshop on using R for qualitative research, and this past June, I taught a couple of classes on web scraping and using APIs.

I recently finish a PhD in Linguistics 🐌

My dissertation was titled “Presidential State of the Nation Addresses in Chile (1832–2024): Corpus Compilation and Analysis of its Diachronic Variation.”. It was a project on corpus linguistics, but also on working with archives and developing software for research.

If you want to know what my dissertation was about, here are some random pieces of evidence:

• Prehistory: My PhD topic started as a side project. Here is a talk I gave in Spanish in 2018 at the First Data Visualization Seminar (VISDatos), organized by the School of Design at Universidad Católica de Chile. Soon after presenting this first exploration on the topic, I realized it was a good idea to turn it into a Linguistics dissertation.
• A couple of years later: Here is a talk I gave in 2021 at the first edition of Outlier, the conference organized by the Data Visualization Society. Just some thoughts on why word clouds are useless for certain topics (like the speeches I analyzed in my dissertation).
• A product: I like building things, so one of the outputs of my thesis is this Shiny application (still in beta) that allows you to explore the full corpus of Chilean State of the Nation Addresses.
• A by-product: Since I always find an excuse to build something, a by-product of my thesis is this other Shiny app that converts texts written in what is sometimes called “Bello’s orthography” (e.g., jeolojía instead of geología, estranjero instead of extranjero, etc.) into the current standard spelling, as set by the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language (RAE).

(I’ll add publications later. I don’t believe they are the only valid research outputs, so I want to highlight other contributions first.)