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We are excited to announce that our research associate, Carla Cisternas, has been awarded a Slicher van Bath de Jong research prize by the University of Amsterdam. This prestigious award is a testament to Carla’s excellent research project and trajectory.

Last July 15-19, our research associate Bastián González-Bustamante had the honour of presenting his research entitled “The Impact of Ministers’ Profiles on Cabinet Turnover during Presidential Crises” at the World Congress of Political Science, which took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This important conference brought together more than 2,995 participants from 98 countries to discuss the most relevant issues in political science.

In recent months, our research associate, Bastián González-Bustamante, had the honour of presenting his work at three major international conferences in the field of political science. These presentations gave Bastián the opportunity to share his findings with experts and colleagues from around the world and receive valuable feedback.

At Training Data Lab, we are committed to sharing our research and insights with a broader audience, and social media is an important part of that effort. However, managing social media can be time-consuming, and crafting engaging content that resonates with our followers can be challenging. That is why we have decided to use ChatGPT, a large language model trained by OpenAI, to help us create high-quality content for our social media channels.

Training Data Lab is excited to share a new addition to our research ecosystem: Vibrant Ink Flavoured Theme for RStudio, created by our research associate Bastián González-Bustamante. This innovative theme is designed to enhance your experience when coding with R, and is now available under an MIT No Attribution (MIT-0) license.

Experts highlight the need for a hierarchy in state action and the public-private link. What is the best scheme? Miguel Pelayo Serna, lawyer and expert in economic regulation and Master in Public Policy at the University of Oxford, talks to Portal Movilidad about a question: Which sectors of the State should intervene for the proper development of electromobility?

In recent weeks, our Training Data Lab research team had the privilege of presenting two papers at international conferences. Our researchers, Bastián González-Bustamante and Diego Aguilar, showed their research on territorial patterns of open e-government in Chilean municipalities, highlighting the importance of digital democracy in modern government.

We are excited to announce that our research associate, Bastián González-Bustamante, has successfully presented his research paper “Resignation Calls and Ministerial Turnover in Latin America: Notes on Data Gathering using Machine Learning” at the Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS) annual conference held in Bath, UK, on 21-22 April 2022.

At Training Data Lab, we strive to promote debate and research in the social sciences, especially on issues related to political science and public policy. To achieve this, we have created a series of working papers entitled Tufte Working Papers, which aims to foster the exchange of ideas and knowledge between researchers and academics worldwide.