Projects

Measuring the economy with unconventional data

Research

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The International Space Station in orbit over the Earth
Satellite data · Nowcasting

IAESAT: the economy measured from space

A monthly economic activity index with subnational detail, built from satellite night lights — useful where statistics arrive late or have stopped being published.

It replicates the official GDP cycle, even for Venezuela.

PythonGeospatialVIIRS
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Stacks of piled-up newspapers
NLP · Time series · 2015–2026

Economic Sentiment Index

The tone of thousands of news stories (GDELT) turned into a weekly and monthly sentiment indicator for 8 Latin American economies.

It tracks the cycle 1–2 quarters ahead.

NLPGDELTGranger
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Covers: public-domain and CC BY images — NASA (International Space Station), «Newspaper» by Ka23 13, CC BY 4.0 (press), and «Electronic stock board in Yaesu» by nappa, CC BY 2.0 (stock board).

Platforms

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Screenshot of the Deuda Colombia site: total government debt and a rising area chart, 2001–2026
Interactive site · Public debt

Colombia's Government Debt

An interactive site that tracks, month by month, all of Colombia's Central Government debt: composition, maturity profile, rates and currencies, with official data from 2001 to 2026.

The structural shift: domestic debt rose from 49% to 77% of the total.

ReactData-vizPublic debt
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More platforms in the works

Dashboards and tools are published here once they reach a stable public version, with verifiable data and clear documentation.

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