Rice and beans — a mix of different and sometimes opposite things. Random walk in action.https://www.carlos-toruno.com/https://www.carlos-toruno.com/blog/clustering-public-opinion/01-mice/https://www.carlos-toruno.com/blog/clustering-public-opinion/01-mice/>-Tue, 18 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.carlos-toruno.com/blog/clustering-public-opinion/00-intro/https://www.carlos-toruno.com/blog/clustering-public-opinion/00-intro/First post of 2025. Just a post talking about how this year started and what I will be showing you in the upcoming posts.Sun, 16 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.carlos-toruno.com/blog/classification-system/06-introducing-eu-rol-tracker/https://www.carlos-toruno.com/blog/classification-system/06-introducing-eu-rol-tracker/Introducing the EU Rule of Law Tracker pilot project I have been working on during the past months.Sun, 17 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.carlos-toruno.com/blog/svg-tooltips/https://www.carlos-toruno.com/blog/svg-tooltips/Joining R, Python, and JavaScript together into a single visualization.Mon, 22 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.carlos-toruno.com/blog/streamlit/02-dropbox/https://www.carlos-toruno.com/blog/streamlit/02-dropbox/In this blog post I go through a step-by-step on how to use the offical Dropbox SDK for Python to have your Streamlit apps have access to your Dropbox files.Sun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.carlos-toruno.com/blog/workflow/https://www.carlos-toruno.com/blog/workflow/I use the word workflow a lot when talking to people from other teams. And they are used to it by now, but they always aks me... what is the workflow?Mon, 15 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.carlos-toruno.com/blog/classification-system/05-langchain/https://www.carlos-toruno.com/blog/classification-system/05-langchain/Langchain is the most used framework when working with LLMs, in this post you will learn the basic functionalities that this library has to offerSun, 03 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.carlos-toruno.com/blog/classification-system/04-llm-api/https://www.carlos-toruno.com/blog/classification-system/04-llm-api/Accessing the power and capabilities of LLMs through their official APISun, 28 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.carlos-toruno.com/blog/classification-system/03-using-chat-gpt-as-classifier/https://www.carlos-toruno.com/blog/classification-system/03-using-chat-gpt-as-classifier/Large Language Models are extremely useful tools that can be used for specific tasks such as text classification. As long as you know what to ask and how to ask it.Mon, 08 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.carlos-toruno.com/blog/geosimplify/https://www.carlos-toruno.com/blog/geosimplify/Geometry Simplification is a very helpful way to optimize the storage, processing, and visualization of your geographic data.Thu, 14 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.carlos-toruno.com/blog/classification-system/02-labelling-data/https://www.carlos-toruno.com/blog/classification-system/02-labelling-data/Most people don't realize the massive effort behind training a machine learning algorithm. In this post, I talk about why you should be extra careful when labeling your data.Sat, 18 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.carlos-toruno.com/blog/classification-system/01-gathering-data/https://www.carlos-toruno.com/blog/classification-system/01-gathering-data/In this blog post I go through a step-by-step on how to use the python client from the Newsdata API to gather news data.Sun, 12 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.carlos-toruno.com/blog/string-encoding/https://www.carlos-toruno.com/blog/string-encoding/Working with text data can be fun, but also tricky. Always be careful of which encoding system you are using, specially if you are dealing with characters or graphemes unknown to the English alphabet.Sat, 09 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.carlos-toruno.com/blog/gis-exploding/https://www.carlos-toruno.com/blog/gis-exploding/Some geographical data sources include Taiwan as part of China. In this post, I show you how to split these territories without having to use other data source.Sat, 29 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.carlos-toruno.com/blog/streamlit/01-intro/https://www.carlos-toruno.com/blog/streamlit/01-intro/Streamlit is an increasingly popular framework for developing web applications. In this post, I will introduce the Streamlit library and show a step-by-step guide on how to build simple applications with it.Thu, 25 May 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.carlos-toruno.com/blog/data-viz-tutorials/01-bee-swarm/https://www.carlos-toruno.com/blog/data-viz-tutorials/01-bee-swarm/Visualizing data distributions is one of the most important steps in exploratory analysis. In this post, I'll be showing you how to incoporate bee swarm plots as one of your available options using real data from The World Justice Project.Sun, 05 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.carlos-toruno.com/blog/geocoding/https://www.carlos-toruno.com/blog/geocoding/When dealing with online data, we frequently encounter information about locations. In this post, I will be showing you how to transform this information into geographical coordinates using R programming language.Wed, 21 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.carlos-toruno.com/blog/webscrapping/03-selenium/https://www.carlos-toruno.com/blog/webscrapping/03-selenium/In the third part of this series, I use the Selenium library to locate web elements and extract information from dynamic web sites.Fri, 09 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.carlos-toruno.com/blog/data-viz-process/https://www.carlos-toruno.com/blog/data-viz-process/Coming up with the almost perfect visualization for your data is not easy task. In this post, I go through my Data Visualization process as part of my daily routine.Thu, 24 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.carlos-toruno.com/blog/webscrapping/02-requests/https://www.carlos-toruno.com/blog/webscrapping/02-requests/Web Scraping is an increasingly popular tool to gather information from the web. In the second part of this series, I use the requests and BeautifulSoup Python libraries to extract information from a website.Thu, 17 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.carlos-toruno.com/blog/webscrapping/01-intro/https://www.carlos-toruno.com/blog/webscrapping/01-intro/Web Scraping is a increasingly popular tool to gather information. In this article, I go through the very basics to understand what is it and how does it work.Thu, 10 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT