Software

R Packages

pollingBR

pollingBR is a R package created to facilitate the extraction of date from the dataset of Brazilian electoral polls from the news website Poder360. The package extracts information from its’ open data API, developed by Volt Data Lab. The package was developed with contributions from Sérgio Spagnuolo, Denisson Silva and Fernando Meireles.

To download it and for further instructions, please check the pollingBR repository on GitHub.

crossfire

crossfire is a R package to extract data from Fogo Cruzado’s open data API, also developed by Volt Data Lab. Fogo Cruzado (Crossfire) is “a collaborative and digital platform to register gun shootings and gun violence on the metropolitan areas of Rio de Janeiro and Recife”. The package was developed with contributions from Sérgio Spagnuolo and Denisson Silva.

To download it and for further instructions, please check the crossfire repository on GitHub.

newsatlasbr

newsatlasbr is a R Package to extract data from News Atlas open data API. News Atlas is a project which maps Brazilian news outlets. I developed this package with contributions from Sérgio Spagnuolo and Renata Hirota.

To download it and for further instructions, please check the newsatlasbr repository on GitHub.