Rafael La Buonora
Economist, Coder, Teacher.
Currently
Head of Policy Monitoring and Evaluation at Transforma Uruguay
Skills
Web
Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS
Data Analysis
R, Shiny, ggplot
Education
Formal
2012
Licenciatura en Economía Universidad de la República (Uruguay)
1999
Certificate of Proficiency in English University of Cambridge
Online
2015
CS169.1x: Engineering Software as a Servicee Edx
2014
Principles of Computing Coursera (Rice University)
2012
Machine Learning Coursera (Stanford University)
Employment
Data Analysis & Project Management
2017-Now
Head of Policy Monitoring and Evaluation Unit
- Plan and implement policy monitoring and evaluation for Development Programs.
- Develop data products to understand competitiveness policy.
2012-2016
Product Manager & Data Analyst
Ministry of Economy and Finance of Uruguay
- Managed team that developed an application for collecting and visualizing price data from 300 supermarkets.
- Produced monthly reports on the collected data using R.
2015
Research Assistant
Universidad de la República - Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - DECON
- Multiple Imputation of missing data for Household Wealth Survey (EFHU)
2008-2011
Business Analyst Ministry of Energy, Mining and Industry, Uruguay.
- Analyzed SMEs business models and operations.
- Developed and mantained a databases of SMEs
Teaching
2019 Instructor at Datacamp.com
- Developed interactive project to use PCA to analyze economic data (requires subscription).
2019 Automatic Reports with R at URSEC
- In company course on visualization and reporting using R.
2016-Now Economics at St Brendan’s School
- Introductory level Microeconomics and Macroeconomics.
2012-2014 Econometrics I and II at Facultad de Ciencas Económicas y Administración
- Linear Regression, Binary Classification, Time Series.
2008-2012 Computer Science at Facultad de Ciencas Económicas y Administración
- MS Word, MS Excel, SQL, R.
Projects
2016Calculator
- React App for Freecodecamp.org
References
Available upon request.