Riva Quiroga
Research Fellow at Freelance
Valparaíso, Valparaiso Region, Chile
Summary
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Top SchoolRiva Quiroga is a research-focused data scientist and linguist with eight years of experience blending open research, teaching, and full-stack development. Based in Valparaíso, she serves as a Research Fellow at Open Life Science and a long-standing fellow at the Software Sustainability Institute while editing and governing Programming Historian, a widely used platform for computational humanities tutorials. She co-founded LatinR and helps lead multiple community initiatives (R-Ladies, PyLadies, LatinR), reflecting a strong commitment to inclusive technical education across Latin America. Her hands-on contributions include improving the Programming Historian Jekyll site—adding accessible UI enhancements and an interactive Jupyter Notebook lesson—alongside freelance work in web scraping, text mining, and reproducible data workflows. With a PhD in Linguistics and experience teaching communication and reproducibility to statisticians, she combines rigorous research training with practical tooling and pedagogy to make computational methods more accessible.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Linguistics at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Spanish, English
Github Skills (9)
html10
css10
jekyll10
javascript9
data-management8
webscraping7
python7
data-mining7
pandas7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
programminghistorian/jekyll
Mar 2019 - Jan 2023
Jekyll-based static site for The Programming Historian
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:125 reviews, 198 commits, 69 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Riva contributed to the project by implementing and updating various aspects of the website and its infrastructure. This includes modifying CSS and HTML to enhance the user interface and improve accessibility, as well as making changes to build scripts and lesson layouts. They also added a new lesson to the website and contributed to its content and functionality by incorporating an interactive Jupyter Notebook.
pythonstatic-sitedata-miningscrapingopenscience
rivaquiroga/programas-presidenciales-2021
Oct 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:7 commits, 2 pushes, 1 comment in 6 months
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