Teaching

Courses, lectures, and teaching materials

I teach and build educational resources around data science, causal inference, and social research methods — in Spanish and English. This page brings together selected video materials and a record of the courses I have taught.

University teaching

Universidad del Desarrollo (2020–2022)

  • Master in Engineering: Causal Inference for Data Science
  • Master in Data Science: Workshop in Time Series Analysis
  • Master in Data Science: Data Analysis

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (2014–2019)

  • Introduction to Economics
  • Microeconomics
  • Game Theory
  • Economic Analysis
  • Econometrics

Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (2014–2016)

  • Introduction to Economics
  • Econometrics

Thesis committees and examination boards

I served as a committee member in the following theses.

Master in Data Science, Universidad del Desarrollo

  • Julio Sotelo (2023)
  • Rodrigo Manríquez (2023)
  • Felipe Díaz (2022)
  • Sebastián Azócar (2021)

Commercial Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso

  • Fiamma Orlandi Santambrogio (2018)

YouTube channel

My YouTube channel brings together classes and tutorials on econometrics, causal inference, and applied quantitative methods for students and researchers in the social sciences. All videos on the channel are in Spanish.

One of the channel’s most-viewed methods videos is a class on fixed effects and panel data:

12,861 views on YouTube as of March 27, 2026

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Econometrics Tutorials

A practical collection of videos on instrumental variables, panel data, functional form, and applied work in Stata.

Competitive Markets in Microeconomics

Foundational videos on competition, firm behavior, short-run and long-run equilibrium, and market intuition.

Monopoly and Market Power

An introductory playlist on monopoly, regulation, price discrimination, and efficiency in imperfectly competitive markets.

Visit the channel → @MelanieOyarzun

Teaching materials

I am also beginning to organize additional materials from previous courses, including lecture notes, study guides, worked examples, and support documents developed for my students. For now, here is a course website with materials in Spanish that I have used in teaching.

General Data Analysis Course

A Spanish-language course site with notes, slides, workshops, and a final project guide covering research questions, data preparation, regression, and time series.

Open materials

I plan to continue turning these materials into more evergreen and reusable course resources over time.