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lesflores/README.md

Hi, I'm Lesly Flores 🤠

Social scientist · Public policy evaluation · R for public policy · Computational social science


About me

I am a professor and evaluator working at the intersection of public policy evaluation, governance, citizen perception, and reproducible workflows in R.

My work focuses on:

  • public policy evaluation
  • local governance and public services
  • institutional integrity and democracy
  • organized crime and state capacity
  • survey analysis and public opinion
  • computational social science and agent-based modeling
  • open and reusable code under the spirit of #CódigoDeTodxs

Research and publications

Selected publications

Integridad institucional, democracia electoral y crimen organizado: un análisis mediante PCA y modelos multinivel (2026)
Published in América Latina Hoy. 🔗 Article

Conflictos de organizaciones criminales y el principio electoral de la democracia (2024)
Published in Política. Revista de Ciencia Política. 🔗 Article

Aproximación a la Evaluación desde la Fiscalización Superior Local: El caso de la Evaluación Complementaria “Cómo Andamos Guanajuato en la Calidad de los Servicios Públicos” en los años 2022 y 2023 (2024, co-authored)
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Nueva aproximación sobre la representación de la identidad nacional y su problemática en México (2021, co-authored)
Published in SOCIOTAM.
🔗 Article


Current work

  • Agent-based modeling for ex-ante evaluation of conditional cash transfer programs
  • Public services, local governance, and citizen perception in Guanajuato
  • Sentiment analysis for social science research
  • Reproducible methods and open resources in R for policy analysis
  • Teaching materials for statistics, evaluation, and computational methods

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Methods and tools

Typical tasks

  • survey analysis
  • data cleaning and transformation
  • PCA and index construction
  • multilevel models
  • impact evaluation
  • reproducible reports
  • data visualization for public policy audiences

GitHub activity

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Teaching and open knowledge

I use this space to share research, replication materials, teaching resources, and open tools for public policy analysis.

I care about making methods more understandable, reusable, and public-facing.


Connect with me


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