📢 Join us on 17 June for an online webinar on Quantitative Text Analysis in the Age of LLMs. With @seraphinemaerz.bsky.social and Bertrand De Longueville. 17:00 UK, 18:00 Brussels, 19:00 Vilnius Register here: tinyurl.com/2pkcjxsw #QTA #LLMs #TextAsData

📊 FIRSA webinar on building research dashboards with R and Shiny is now online. It covers the basic structure of a Shiny app and practical design choices for clearer dashboarding, using the FIRSA dashboard as an example. 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=FICw... #RStats #Shiny #OpenScience

📊 Free webinar on 12 May Building Research Dashboards with R and Shiny RShiny basics for researchers, students, analysts, and other R users interested in interactive dashboarding for research communication. 18:30 Vilnius time (EEST) Registration: forms.gle/f9t9dpYTT3Gc... #RStats #dataviz

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... Follow RWeekly rweekly.org #Rstats #OpenScience #DataVisualization

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

💡 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

💡 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

🇺🇸💔🇪🇺 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/...

💡 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

An insight on latest research from Vilnius University on Europe's FinTech regulatory sandbox development www.vu.lt/en/news-even...