Lauren is a political economist, data scientist, and public-facing researcher known for her work at the intersection of computational social science and urban inequality. She holds a PhD from the European University Institute and is currently a postdoctoral researcher and freelance data scientist. She is also the creator of CentralBankTalk, a platform analysing monetary policy communication across more than 100 central banks using large language models. Her Substack, which has grown to over 2,400 subscribers and 180,000 views, has broken through to mainstream audiences with investigations into pub closures, Google Maps’ algorithm, quantitative trading, and the spatial politics of urban regeneration.
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