Resume (EN)

felipe.ruiz@ug.uchile.cl

Current positions

Project Manager – Half-time
Nodo XXI Foundation 2019 — present

  • Nongovernmental organization that provides political advice and research capabilities to social movements and political organizations.
  • Member of the executive management team and responsible for both the implementation of advocacy and research projects and the relationship with international partners.

Posgraduate Researcher – Half-time
University of Chile 2019 — present

  • Young academic researcher in charge of scientific projects in the economic and social fields.

Education

Professional

Data Science – Profesional Specialization
John Hopkins University 2024

Programming & Data Science Instructor – Profesional Specialization
The Carpentries 2023

Program of Advanced Studies on Latin American Economies – Profesional Specialization
UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean 2023

Summer School in Computational Social Sciences, Methods for Analysing Multimedia Data – Profesional Specialization
GESIS Leibniz Institute for The Social Sciences 2019

Academic

Master of Science – Social Sciences
University of Chile 2017 — 2019

Bachelor – Sociology
University of Chile 2012 — 2016

Work Experience

Data Scientist

Freelance
Multiple clients2017 – Present

Providing data collection, pre-processing, statistical analysis and data visualization services to different clients of the private, scientific and academic sector. The last projects I was involved were:

  • 2024-2023. Validation of administrative records and statistical analysis: occupational structure of Chile’s Central Government. Law Faculty, Alberto Hurtado University. National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development (grant 1231868).
  • 2021-2022. Validation and preparation of databases in reproducible format. Faculty of Social Sciences, Diego Portales University. National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development (grant 1171072).

Data Science Teaching

Lecturer & Teaching assistant
Different institutions2016 – Present

Teaching experience as data science instructor in different educational contexts: universities (grade and posgraduate courses), professional specializations and particular lessons. My experience as lecturer includes:

  • Foundations of the R programming language.
  • Introduction to data driven research projects.
  • Basic and advanced statistical methods in Social Sciences.
  • Open Science and Free Software Tools for Quantitative Social Research.

Ongoing studies

Doctor of Philosophy – Social Sciences
University of Chile March 2021 — Present

Recent publications