Mauricio "Pachá" Vargas Sepúlveda

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About me

I am a PhD student in Political Science at the University of Toronto. My research interests include International Relations, Canadian Politics and Public Policy, with a focus on the politics of trade agreements and sanctions. I have a Master of Arts in Political Science from the University of Toronto, a Master of Science in Statistics from the Catholic University of Chile, and an Engineering degree from the University of Chile. I can provide my CV (academic/professional) upon request. You can reach me at m.sepulveda+removethis@mail.utoronto.ca (please remove the +removethis).

Because of the quantitative nature of my research, I have developed a strong interest in data science and programming. You can check my GitHub profile, where I have organized my open source projects, most of them are related to gravity estimation besides data wrangling with R and data visualization with Shiny. This is detailed in the Open Source section.

I also have a blog where I organize different notes, such as Creating LaTeX figures with Inkscape, A Crash Course on PostgreSQL for R Users, and A step by step guide to write an R package that uses C++ code (Ubuntu).

Trivia: My blog Comparing SQLite, DuckDB and Arrow with UN Trade Data made it to the top ten on Hacker News.

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