Author: Ricardo Lezama

Covid-19 Variant

New B.1.1.529 Coronavirus Variant Poised To Be Deadlier Than Delta

Markets, medical experts and governments are raising concerns over the latest Coronavirus variant. As the public in the United States gathers in observance of Thanksgiving, South African experts and global governments are alarmed at the B.1.1.529 variant of the Coronavirus. Enough concern has been raised to shutdown air-traffic partially between UK/Europe and parts of Africa. The […]

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Boxing Mexican

After Success Unifying Super Middleweight Division, Canelo Calculates Legacy With Cruiserweight Challenge

Saul “Canelo” Alvarez is now contemplating challenging a much bigger man who is the champion at the Cruiserweight weight division in the WBC. The Canelo legacy keeps rising as the 31 year old Mexican enters his prime and relishes success compounded repeatedly after multiple successful defenses of titles. Most recently, the Mexican has unified the […]

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Computational Linguistics Data Linguistics Python Tokenization

Word2Vec Mexican Spanish Model: Lyrics, News Documents

A Corpus That Contains Colloquial Lyrics & News Documents For Mexican Spanish This experimental dataset was developed by 4 Social Science specialists and one industry expert, myself, with different samples from Mexico specific news texts and normalized song lyrics. The intent is to understand how small, phrase level constituents will interact with larger, editorialized style […]

Ricardo Lezama 
Boxing California Chicano Mexican

Mikey Garcia – A Manny Pacquiao Style Loss

The Sandor Martin upset is reminiscent of the great Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao upset against Jeff Horn. In Fresno, California, Mikey Garcia delivered a slow and methodical performance against Sandor Martin. For his part, Martin delivered on the expected southpaw style, consistent jab and constant lateral movement – this proved more valuable to the California judges […]

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California Chicano Demographics Hispanic Mexican

Survey: US Based Mexican Average Salary Between 47k to 67k Annually

From May 2nd to May 5th of 2020, I gathered data with an online survey administered with the help of Mexican based Data Analysts who helped me recruit participants and review the data. My goal was to understand how COVID-19 affected my community’s economic status and employment prospects. The descriptions here apply to 77 confirmed […]

Ricardo Lezama