Blog posts

SALA 2026: AI in Latin America

Conference

Open-source

Last week, SALA — the Summit of AI in Latin America — wrapped up its 2026 edition, and I’m leaving thrilled to have been part of it.

Train the Trainer in Arecibo, Puerto Rico

Teaching

R

Python

In January, I had the chance to facilitate an in-person edition of Train the Trainer, a MetaDocencia course aimed at people who teach — or want to teach — programming and…

Gender biases and hate speech: : Promoters and targets in the Argentinean political context (PLoS ONE)

Publications

NLP

Our research explores how hate speech is disseminated and received by political figures, focusing on gender and political orientation. We used NLP and LLMs to analyze this…

Posit::Conf(2023)

Conference

R

Open-source

I had the amazing opportunity to participate in posit::conf() 2023 in Chicago, where I met many R contributors, developers, and educators in person and was able to attend…

Helping Out and Learning: TAing in Tidymodels workshop at LatinR 2023

Conference

Open-source

R

LatinR, the LatinAmerican Conference About the Use of R in R&D, held its 2023 edition in Montevideo, Uruguay. Although I had participated as an organizer or speaker in the…

C Book Club for R Contributors

Programming

Open-source

R

From May to August 2023 as people attending R Project Sprint 2023 we were offered the chance to participate in a C book club with the goal of gaining a basic understanding…

My experience at the Khipu 2023 conference

Conference

This year, at the Universidad de la República in Uruguay, Khipu, the Latin American conference on AI took place. Over three days in March, talks, workshops, and poster…