Happy to see our most recent tutorial on RSelenium featured in RWeekly (2026-W16)!
The screencast below shows a minimal example of what can be done with automated browsers. Use responsibly!
Tutorial:
firsa.eu/posts/rselen...
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Want to an easy way to learn web scraping? 🤖
Check out this new tutorial on Selenium in R.
It covers how to automate web browsers to collect data from dynamic websites ➡️ firsa.eu/posts/rselen...
#RStats #RSelenium #WebScraping #DataScience
What are the odds you own crypto assets? 📉
How is financial literacy related to ownership? 📖
Our new dashboard lets you simulate the probability of recent crypto-asset ownership based on a statistical model.
🔗 dashboard.firsa.eu
#bitcoin #rstats #shiny #crypto #fintech #OpenScience
📄 New FIRSA working paper.
Are crypto holders really more overconfident? Using recent EU-wide data, I find the answer depends a lot on how overconfidence is measured.
Pre-print version, comments welcome.
🔗 firsa.eu/posts/crypto...
#FinTech #OpenScience #EUData #RStats
💰 Is Bitcoin money or myth?
📢 Presenting this Saturday at the 6th Money View Symposium hosted by @ineteconomics.bsky.social
Register here:
🔗 fs8.formsite.com/CNZLjX/0acgs...
📍 Online event, free attendance
📅 Saturday, February 28
⏰ 12:30 New York
#PoliticalEconomy #Monetarytheory #Bitcoin
Who owns crypto in Europe?
Join the FIRSA Academic Roundtable (link below) to learn more about research on FinTech (CBDCs, Crypto, Regulatory Sandboxes) from top scholars.
📣 20 Jan · 10:00 CST (Chicago) / 18:00 EET (Vilnius)
zoom.us/j/9443773243...
Passcode: 995511
🚨 Academic roundtable on fintech regulation.
Join the conversation with Colin Chia (University of Victoria), Ghita Chraibi (University of Virginia), and Vytautas Kuokštis (Vilnius University).
📣 (TUE) 20 Jan · 10:00 CST (Chicago) / 18:00 EET (Vilnius)
🔗: zoom.us/j/9443773243...
#fintech #finance
Shares of total NTF sales (2021). Source: EU Observatory and Forum on Blockchain
💡 What are NFTs?
NFTs are unique digital tokens on a blockchain that certify ownership of a specific item. Unlike crypto coins, they aren’t interchangeable.
🔗 Demystifying NFTs Report (2021): blockchain-observatory.ec.europa.eu/document/dow...
#FinTech #DigitalFinance #EU #NFT
💡 What is an Innovation Hub?
📌 A contact point where (fintech) firms can ask regulators about new tech
📌 Offers guidance — no live testing
📌 Helps clarify licensing pathways
🔗 ESAs Joint Report (2023):
www.esma.europa.eu/sites/defaul...
#FinTech #DigitalFinance #EU
💡 The EU’s AI Act sets the first global rules for artificial intelligence.
📌 Risk-based approach — from minimal to high risk
📌 Stricter rules for financial AI
📌 Promotes AI testing in supervised sandboxes
🔗 EU AI Act: digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/...
#FinTech #DigitalFinance #EU
Walmart-Backed Fintech Onepay to Launch Crypto Trading and Custody Services
Onepay, majority-owned by Walmart, plans to launch cryptocurrency trading and custody within its app later this year. Integrating Crypto Into the Retail Ecosystem The fintech firm Onepay, which is majority-o…
#crypto #news
💡 What is MiCA?
📌 The EU’s new framework for crypto-assets
📌 Sets common rules for issuers, exchanges & wallets
📌 Balances innovation with consumer protection
🔗 EU MiCA Regulation: www.esma.europa.eu/esmas-activi...
#FinTech #DigitalFinance #EU
💡 What is a regulatory sandbox?
A regulatory sandbox is a framework that allows firms to test innovative financial services in a controlled environment under the regulator’s supervision.
🔗 Read more on the FIRSA website: www.firsa.eu
#FinTech #DigitalFinance #EU
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Trump’s 2025 UN speech was the longest U.S. address on record and the most negative toward Europe.
This is the focus of my first Medium article, where I track how Europe appears in U.S. UNGA speeches from 1946–2025 and visualize the results.
📖 Read on Medium:
medium.com/@alfredo-hs/...
👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – PayPal’s paying attention to Africa
Image Source: Make A Meme Nigeria’s bank-owned fintech subsidiaries have been hunting for their breakout moment. For Guaranty Trust Holding Company (GTCO)’s fintech arm, HabariPay, that moment came in H1 2025, where it grew its profit…
💡 FinTech = financial technology.
✅ Cheaper, faster, more inclusive finance
❌ New risks for consumers & regulators
FinTech is central to the EU’s Digital Finance Strategy.
🔗 EU Digital Finance Strategy: finance.ec.europa.eu/digital-fina...
#FinTech #DigitalFinance #EU
Are you an R user tired of missing out on the LLM craze?
In my new tutorial I show how to use OpenAI’s GPT and Google’s Gemini models to classify political texts. I connect to the APIs directly from R using reticulate.
alhdzsz.net/posts/llms_r...
#rstats #dataviz #ai #python #textdata
Zero-shot classification and natural language inference (NLI) offer a powerful way to analyze political texts without labeled training data. This tutorial shows how to classify sentences using a pre-trained transformer model.
Google Colab Link: colab.research.google.com/drive/1gCZBy...
Here you can find a a hands-on tutorial on how to perform Named Entity Recognition (NER) using Python’s transformers library from within R via reticulate.
firsa.eu/posts/ner_re...
#NLP #rstats #Python #Quarto
