talks

Talks, workshops, and presentations given by Marcela Alfaro Córdoba.

2026

  1. Encuesta Intercensal 2025 · Colima: Brechas por sexo
    Panel · Invited
    Panel de la Facultad, Universidad de Colima, Colima, Mexico (virtual participation), Oct 2026
    Materials
  2. Open and Responsible Research
    Talk · Invited
    CODATA-RDA School of Research Data Science, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, Spring 2026
    Materials

2025

  1. Research Talk
    Talk
    Department of Statistics Seminar, UCSC, Santa Cruz, CA, Fall 2025
    Slides
  2. Building a Community Resource for Teaching Assistants: The UCSC Statistics TA Wiki
    Poster · Peer Reviewed
    USCOTS (with Antonio Aguirre and Andrew Le), Ames, IA, Jul 2025
    Poster
  3. Webinar Gestión de Datos de Investigación: ¿Por qué es fundamental para una ciencia producible y confiable?
    Talk · Invited
    Webinar, CEDIA, Ecuador, Oct 2025
    Slides
  4. OERs: From Theory to Practice
    Talk · Invited
    STEM TLC Group, UCSC (with Markus Eger and Sarah Hare), Santa Cruz, CA, Spring 2025
    Slides
  5. Open and Responsible Research
    Talk · Invited
    CODATA-RDA School of Research Data Science, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, Apr 2025
    Materials
  6. Introduction to R for Social Scientists
    Workshop · Invited
    CODATA-RDA School of Research Data Science, University of Pretoria, Virtual (Pretoria, South Africa), Winter 2025
    Course Materials

2024

  1. State, Challenges, and Future of Teaching Intensive Positions at R1 Universities
    Panel · Peer Reviewed
    JSM, Portland, OR, Aug 2024
    Slides
  2. Comparative Study on Downscaling Methods for Regional Climate Models
    Talk · Invited
    Latin American Conference on Statistical Computing (LACSC), San José, Costa Rica, Jul 2024
    Slides
  3. Introduction to Reproducible Data Analysis
    Workshop · Invited
    Latin American Conference on Statistical Computing (LACSC) — Tutorial, San José, Costa Rica, Jul 2024
  4. Open and Responsible Research, Introduction to R, and Author Carpentry
    Talk · Invited
    CODATA-RDA School of Research Data Science, National University of Costa Rica, Heredia, Costa Rica, Nov 2024
    Materials
  5. Teaching as a Journey: How I Shaped My Teaching Position
    Talk · Invited
    UC Riverside, Department of Statistics, Riverside, CA, Feb 2024
    Slides
  6. Statistical Literacy on Campus: Innovations and Future Directions for STAT 5
    Poster · Peer Reviewed
    TLC Teaching Symposium, UCSC, Santa Cruz, CA, Feb 2024
    Poster
  7. Introduction to Reproducible Data Analysis
    Talk · Invited
    XXIV SIMMAC, Liberia, Costa Rica, Feb 2024
    Slides

2023

  1. Open and Responsible Research
    Talk · Invited
    CODATA-RDA School of Research Data Science, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, Oct 2023
    Materials

2022

  1. Profesionales que Trabajan con Datos de Investigación en la Academia
    Talk · Invited
    Seminar CSUCA, Virtual, Oct 2022
    Slides
  2. Open and Responsible Research
    Talk · Invited
    CODATA-RDA School of Research Data Science, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, Oct 2022
    Materials
  3. Author Carpentry
    Workshop · Invited
    CODATA-RDA School of Research Data Science, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, Jul 2022
    Materials

2021

  1. What is a Teaching Assistant Professor?
    Talk
    UCSC Open House, Virtual, Mar 2021
    Slides
  2. Ciencia de Datos en la Academia
    Talk · Invited
    La Referencia Meeting, Virtual, Aug 2021
    Slides

2020

  1. Investigación Reproducible
    Talk · Invited
    Escuela de Big Data CeNAT, San José, Costa Rica, Dec 2020
  2. Datos Abiertos para la Investigación
    Talk · Invited
    Seminar CSUCA, Virtual, Jul 2020
    Slides

2019

  1. CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Schools
    Poster · Peer Reviewed
    Women in Statistics and Data Science, Bellevue, WA, Oct 2019
    Poster
  2. Spectral Measure of Color Variation of Black-Orange-Black (BOB) Pattern in Hymenoptera (Scelionidae): A Statistical Approach
    Poster · Peer Reviewed
    Women in Statistics and Data Science, Bellevue, WA, Oct 2019
    Poster
  3. Statistical Emulators for Regional Climate Models
    Talk · Invited, Peer Reviewed
    Mini Congreso CIGEFI, UCR, San José, Costa Rica, Apr 2019
    Slides
  4. Multidisciplinary Research
    Talk · Invited
    UCR - Universidad de San Carlos, Guatemala, Jul 2019
  5. Sexism in STEM, the Case of Women at the UCR
    Talk · Invited
    Seminar UCR, Facultad de Ciencias y Facultad de Ingeniería, San José, Costa Rica, May 2019
    Slides
  6. Estrategias didácticas para la enseñanza de la estadística a nivel universitario
    Talk
    XIV Jornadas de Análisis Estadístico de Datos (with Edwin Chaves), San José, Costa Rica, Mar 2019
    Slides
  7. Uso de Shiny apps como apoyo para la enseñanza de la estadística Bayesiana
    Talk
    XIV Jornadas de Análisis Estadístico de Datos (with Luis Diego Quirós and Andrés Arguedas), San José, Costa Rica, Feb 2019
    Slides
  8. Análisis y Visualización de Datos Usando R
    Workshop
    R-Ladies, San José, Costa Rica, Feb 2019
    Slides

2018

  1. Variable Selection Methods for Statistical Emulators
    Poster · Peer Reviewed
    Mini Congreso CIGEFI, UCR, San José, Costa Rica, Aug 2018
  2. International Network of Networks Data Experts Workshop
    Panel · Invited
    Research Data Alliance, 13th Plenary, Philadelphia, PA, Apr 2018
    Slides

2017

  1. Variable Selection Methods for Statistical Emulators
    Talk · Invited
    3er Seminario de Investigación CIMPA, University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica, Nov 2017
  2. Variable Selection Methods for Bayesian Models
    Talk · Invited
    Inaugural Talk, School of Statistics, University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica, Aug 2017
  3. Functional Data and Applications
    Talk · Invited
    University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica, Jun 2017

2016

  1. Statistical Emulator for NARCCAP Surface Precipitation and Temperature Using Spatially Varying Bayesian Model Averaging
    Poster · Peer Reviewed
    JSM, Chicago, IL, Aug 2016

2015

  1. Spatial Seasonal Forecasting of Tropical Cyclone Occurrences Using Sea Surface Temperature and Latent Heat Flux
    Poster · Peer Reviewed
    JSM, Seattle, WA, Aug 2015

2014

  1. Visualizating Spatial Analysis of Tropical Cyclones and Seasonal Cyclone Forecast
    Poster · Invited
    JSM, Boston, MA, Aug 2014
  2. Hierarchical Modeling of Spatial-Temporal Tropical Cyclone Occurrences with Application to Seasonal Cyclone Forecasting
    Talk · Peer Reviewed
    JSM, Boston, MA, Aug 2014

2010

  1. Choosing Bayes Priors for Estimating Values Near Zero: A Case Study with the Beta-Binomial and the Gamma-Poisson Distributions
    Poster · Peer Reviewed
    JSM, Vancouver, Canada, Aug 2010