A quick scan of UNGA speeches shows a huge gender gap.

From 1946 to 2024 almost all pronoun mentions are he/his. The only real bumps in she/her appear in the few years with a woman as UNGA President 👇

GitHub 🔗: github.com/alfredo-hs/u...

#DataViz #TextAnalysis #GenderGap #DataForGood #RStats

New tutorial out! 🚀 Learn how to chat with ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini inside R using the {ellmer} package.

Covers safe API setup, workflow integration, and structured outputs for text + images.

👉 alfredohs.com/posts/ellmer...

#RStats #LLMs #DataScience

Vibes capitalism ♈ 💰 didn’t start with Musk, it started in 1995. In my new Medium article I argue that the mid-90s shift lines up with shareholder-value culture and the rise of the celebrity CEOs.

🔗 medium.com/@alfredo-hs/...

#SP500 #Markets #ShareholderValue #DataVisualization

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Trump’s 2025 UN speech was the longest U.S. address on record and the most negative toward Europe.

This is the focus of my first Medium article, where I track how Europe appears in U.S. UNGA speeches from 1946–2025 and visualize the results.

📖 Read on Medium:
medium.com/@alfredo-hs/...

💡 FinTech = financial technology.

✅ Cheaper, faster, more inclusive finance
❌ New risks for consumers & regulators

FinTech is central to the EU’s Digital Finance Strategy.

🔗 EU Digital Finance Strategy: finance.ec.europa.eu/digital-fina...

#FinTech #DigitalFinance #EU

Perhaps we're getting closer to that day. Can't help but think of those who said it was "too complicated", who cast doubt on the death tolls, who claimed the images from Gaza couldn't be trusted.

Are you an R user tired of missing out on the LLM craze?

In my new tutorial I show how to use OpenAI’s GPT and Google’s Gemini models to classify political texts. I connect to the APIs directly from R using reticulate.

alhdzsz.net/posts/llms_r...

#rstats #dataviz #ai #python #textdata

Zero-shot classification and natural language inference (NLI) offer a powerful way to analyze political texts without labeled training data. This tutorial shows how to classify sentences using a pre-trained transformer model.

Google Colab Link: colab.research.google.com/drive/1gCZBy...

I’ve just published a hands-on tutorial on how to perform Named Entity Recognition (NER) using Python’s transformers library from within R via reticulate as part of my @firsa-eu.bsky.social project.

#rstats #dataviz #python #ggplot2 #tidytuesday #nlp #ner

firsa.eu/posts/ner_re...

Total *number* of valid resident permits in the EU *by reason* (2023)

First post on Bluesky!

This map is art! Source: https://buff.ly/3V0rRSV

I had so much fun giving this vintage map of Europe a fresh twist by adding exaggerated relief! The original map comes from the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. Want to learn how to bring old maps back to life? Check out my tutorial here: youtu.be/0HFEQU-ELKk

If you recently found a romantic (heterosexual) partner in the US and you haven't met through an online platform you are part of a minority. Source: buff.ly/3NoN05y