🚨 New Medium article on AI and expertise.
We talk a lot about what AI can do for researchers, but much less about the precarious human labor quietly training these systems in the background.
I wrote a short reflection on that tension here: medium.com/@alfredo-hs/...
#AI #Inequality #FutureOfWork
Now do the scam LIS jobs popping up on sites like Indeed that claim to be hiring for librarians but are just AI training.
✊For International Women's Day, I built an interactive map tracking attitudes like "a man earns, a woman stays home." The east-west divide is stark. And as an Italian… yeah, Italy is not doing great 🙁 Built with Claude Code 🤯 → gender-attitudes.netlify.app
#IWD2026 #GenderEquality #DataViz
Doing god's work 😅
https://alfredohs.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-costs-of-doing-social
🚨 New substack post
AI and the future of social science research
Will AI's speed "break" academia?
What if AI changes what counts as research output in the first place?
Link below:
🔗 substack.com/home/post/p-...
#AI #SocialScience #ResearchMethods #AcademicTwitter
🔴 Los objetivos atacados por Israel y Estados Unidos, la respuesta de Terherán y el resto de mapas del ataque lanzado este sábado contra Irán
💰 Is Bitcoin money or myth?
📢 Presenting this Saturday at the 6th Money View Symposium hosted by @ineteconomics.bsky.social
Register here:
🔗 fs8.formsite.com/CNZLjX/0acgs...
📍 Online event, free attendance
📅 Saturday, February 28
⏰ 12:30 New York
#PoliticalEconomy #Monetarytheory #Bitcoin
FinTech isn’t upending global finance as much as it’s being harnessed by central bankers to serve a controlled narrative. This paper presents a unified stance among regulators: innovation is welcomed but must be balanced against financial stability.
By @alfredo-hs.bsky.social
buff.ly/UJly81U
🙏 Thanks for the thoughtful read and for sharing my preprint.
Still very much work in progress, so comments and critique are genuinely welcome!
Thank you! For now there is only SES, but I am happy to brainstorm useful additions, please feel free to play around with the repo and if you have any thoughts let me know!
github.com/alfredo-hs/e...
Let me know what you think if you get around to trying it out! If you forget the name, don't worry, it is easy XD
🚨 I just released easytable 2.1.0.
It is a small R package I built because I was tired of spending more time fixing regression tables than actually writing.
Still in early stages, feedback is much appreciated!
Tutorial
alfredohs.com/posts/easyta...
#RStats #openscience #datascience
They are always seeking deep.
Who owns crypto in Europe?
Join the FIRSA Academic Roundtable (link below) to learn more about research on FinTech (CBDCs, Crypto, Regulatory Sandboxes) from top scholars.
📣 20 Jan · 10:00 CST (Chicago) / 18:00 EET (Vilnius)
zoom.us/j/9443773243...
Passcode: 995511
🚨 Academic roundtable on fintech regulation.
Join the conversation with Colin Chia (University of Victoria), Ghita Chraibi (University of Virginia), and Vytautas Kuokštis (Vilnius University).
📣 (TUE) 20 Jan · 10:00 CST (Chicago) / 18:00 EET (Vilnius)
🔗: zoom.us/j/9443773243...
#fintech #finance
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
🇺🇸💔🇪🇺
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
One day, everyone will have always been against this.
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.
I just was not aware of it, seems like a great package though!
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...
Map and waffle charts displaying the number of valid resident permits by reason in the EU at the end of 2023
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
Amazing map!
