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VidalTinoco/README.md

Vidal Tinoco — Data Scientist

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👋 About Me

Data Scientist with over three years of experience designing and deploying predictive models, NLP systems, and interactive dashboards. Skilled in R, Python, and SQL, with expertise in econometric analysis, causal inference, and deep learning. My path from political science to data science reflects a human-centered perspective: I see data not just as numbers, but as stories and contexts that drive solutions. Experienced in leading cross-functional projects that generate actionable insights and measurable impact, from public finance to legal technology and applied research.


🛠 Top Skills

  • Programming: Python, R, SQL
  • Machine Learning & Deep Learning
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Data Visualization
  • Natural Language Processing (NLP)
  • End-to-end ML Pipelines

🚀 Featured Projects

elmiguelon (R Package)

An R package to track the latest news trends by gathering trending headlines and articles from multiple sources.
Features:

  • Built-in sentiment analysis
  • Keyword search
  • Data visualization
  • Translation tools
  • Streamlined news consumption to help users focus on what matters most

Research Question:
Did Michoacán’s 2011 access to the U.S. avocado market—often dubbed the green-gold boom—lower or widen wage inequality in producing municipalities?

  • Built monthly Gini coefficients (2003-2020) from Mexican Social Security wage registers
  • Two-way fixed-effects Difference-in-Differences (DiD) design, with event-study diagnostics
  • Found avocado-growing municipalities are consistently more unequal, but the boom itself had no statistically significant causal effect on formal-wage inequality after controlling for municipal and year fixed effects
  • Explored the impact of informal earnings caps, market power of <100 certified packers, and organized-crime shocks

An end-to-end machine learning pipeline that forecasts the number of prompts in a ChatGPT session using early conversational data.

  • Extracts linguistic features with spaCy
  • Generates semantic embeddings via Word2Vec and SentenceTransformer
  • Automates feature engineering, model training, evaluation, visualization, and reporting

⚽ Fun Facts

  • Interested in Sports Analytics
  • Chivahermano

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  1. DATA551_GreenGoldDashboard DATA551_GreenGoldDashboard Public

    Forked from TenTen-Teng/GreenGoldDashboard

    The dashboard provides an in-depth analysis of the relationship between agricultural expansion—particularly the avocado (“green gold”) boom—and wage inequality in Michoacán, Mexico, from 2003 to 2…

    Python

  2. elmiguelonR/elmiguelon elmiguelonR/elmiguelon Public

    Stay ahead of the headlines with elmiguelon, an R package that lets you fetch, analyze, and visualize trending news from around the world. It integrates with NewsAPI and OpenAI to support keyword-b…

    R 2

  3. GreenGold_Research GreenGold_Research Public

    Does Mexico’s avocado export boom reduce or widen rural wage inequality? This repository contains the data, code, and research “Green Gold Splashes: Effects of the avocado boom on wage inequality i…

    R

  4. NewsDejaVuProject NewsDejaVuProject Public

    Forked from ajayatil/NewsDejaVuProject

    Reproduces and extends “News Déjà Vu: Connecting Past and Present with Semantic Search” (Dell et al., 2024) by benchmarking a Custom Historical NER model against transformer baselines across corpus…

    Jupyter Notebook

  5. HousePricePredictionML HousePricePredictionML Public

    Forked from ajayatil/HousePricePredictionML

    Implements advanced regression techniques (linear, tree-based, and generalized) to predict home sale prices using the Kaggle “House Prices – Advanced Regression Techniques” dataset. Includes data c…

    Jupyter Notebook

  6. d542_group6 d542_group6 Public

    An end-to-end machine learning pipeline that forecasts the number of prompts in a ChatGPT session using early conversational data. The project extracts linguistic features with spaCy, generates sem…

    Jupyter Notebook