This is my “now” page1. Last update: Mid-August 2023. [versión en español]

📓 Digital Humanities + Technical Writing + Open Publishing

I’m an editor at Programming Historian. We publish multilingual peer-reviewed tutorials that help humanists learn a wide range of open digital tools, techniques, and workflows to facilitate research and teaching. I’m also the Deputy Director of ProgHist Ltd., the charity that administers Programming Historian activities.

💾 Research Software

I’m a Software Sustainability Institute Fellow. As part of my fellowship, I’m developing resources and planning some training events to spread the word about Research Software Engineering (RSE) and reproducible research among people from the humanities (with a focus on Latin America). I’m also exploring how to include Jupyter notebooks as part of the supplemental materials of Programming Historian tutorials in a way that is sustainable in the long run.

💻 🐍 Programming Communities

  • 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.
    • 💬 We’ve got a talk accepted for posit::conf about the sustainable growth of global communities. We will be talking about automating tasks, documentation, and onboarding processes. Hope to see you there!
  • I’m the co-founder and co-organizer of R-Ladies Santiago and R-Ladies Valparaíso. 📺 Check our Meetup pages and social media to learn about our next events.
  • I’m one of the chairs of LatinR, the Latin American R Conference. This year the conference will be held in Montevideo, Uruguay, between October 18 and 20. I’ll be running a workshop about creating reproducible reports with Quarto.
  • I maintain 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}
  • I’m the co-founder and co-organizer of PyLadies Valparaíso 🌈 🐍.
  • I recently gave a talk at PyCon Chile about creating reproducible reports using Quarto.

✨ I just completed the Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals course run by CSCCE, thanks to the support of CZI ✨

🌱 Open Science

🔧 Teaching

  • I teach the web scraping and the text mining modules (with Python & R) at the Data Science Specialization from the Faculty of Mathematics at Universidad Católica de Chile. Materials from the web scraping with Python module are available in this repository. I’ll add the rest here once I teach those modules.
  • This semester I’m also teaching a short course about data management and visualization with R at the Master in Social Research and Development from Universidad de Concepción.

📚 Some linguistic research

I’m the co-investigator in a research project led by Soledad Aravena about lexical and syntactic complexity in school textbooks. We have a grant from the Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage 🎨. I am in charge of all things related to data management and research software. Python and R are our tools of choice.

🐌 I’m finishing a PhD in Linguistics

Soon! ☕

If you want to know what my dissertation is about, here are two random pieces of audiovisual 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 of Universidad Católica de Chile. Soon after this talk, I realized that it was a good idea to stick to this topic and 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 random thoughts about why wordclouds are useless for some topics.

Recently I have been talking about the challenges of building corpus of historical texts and how to visualize it:

  1. To learn more about “now” pages: https://nownownow.com/about ↩︎