Data Science for Economic Analysis Lab
The DSEA Lab was created as part of the research project Ancestral Roots, Inequality, and Economic Development (PI: Miriam Artiles), funded by a Fondecyt Iniciación grant from the Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo (ANID, Chile) for the period 2023–2025.
The lab explores long-run processes of cultural change by combining archaeological, ethnographic, and administrative data with machine learning techniques. A key output of the project is the paper:
“Molded Culture: The Symbolic Content of Ceramics and Cultural Identity in Pre-Industrial Peru” (with Gonzalo González-Melo and Mateo Uribe-Castro), which examines material culture as a lens into group identity in pre-industrial contexts. The study uses a novel dataset of approximately 30,000 ceramic objects, documented through both images and texts.
Research Assistants:
Luciano Davico Larenas
(Master – Data Science, PUC-Chile)
Nicolás de Camino Pérez
(Master – Economics, PUC-Chile)
Cristián Díaz Herrera
(Master – Economics, PUC-Chile)
Gonzalo González Melo
(Master – Applied Economics, PUC-Chile)