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Talks and workshops

Slides from talks and seminars, workshop material and course sites from teaching. Each one links to the live page and, where the repo is public, the code behind it.

Talks

Featured

Messy biographies to clean data

Structuring text with LLMs and Pydantic. A talk at Foo Café in Malmö on turning entries from the Vem är Vem? biographical dictionary into a dataset, and what it shows about Swedish engineers who went to America and came back.

Oct 2025

CTL + ALT + DELISH

A Nexer Insight lunch and learn on MCP and agentic systems, framed around getting from "what shall we have for lunch?" to "order placed".

Apr 2026

Why not a pie chart?

A response to a LinkedIn critique of Nathan Yau's animated chart of how Americans spend their day, using the American Time Use Survey.

Nov 2024

Power for progress

The impact of electricity on individual labour market outcomes in early twentieth-century Sweden.

Apr 2024

The gift of moving

Intergenerational consequences of a mobility shock. A presentation of a published paper, from 2021.

Oct 2021

Workshops

Webscraping tutorial

A Python web scraping tutorial: virtual environments, scraping basics and tables, automating it, and a Streamlit app at the end.

Aug 2024

Teaching