Projects - Volt Data Lab

As a data analyst at Volt Data Lab, I participate in some projects that involved data collection, analysis, and visualization, from many different sources.

• Science Pulse: an online tool to connect journalists to the scientific conversation in social media, by finding content from a list of trustworthy sources of experts/researchers who engage on social media (mainly on Twitter). This project involved working with R on remote servers and Shiny.

• Núcleo Jornalismo: data analysis and, eventually, write stories published at Núcleo Jornalismo. Recently, Núcleo has focused on the impacts of social media on society, but I also produced stories about other topics. My contributions were on stories on politics and social media.

• R Packages: three packages to extract data from APIs developed by Volt Data Lab: pollingBR, which gets data about electoral polls compiled by news website Poder360; crossfire, which gets data about gun shootings in Rio de Janeiro and Recife’s metropolitan areas, collected by the Fogo Cruzado initiative; and newsatlasbr, which extracts data from the Brazilian News Atlas.

• Data and statics on podcasts in Brazil, 2019 (in Portuguese): report produced by Sérgio Spagnuolo and I, in which we collected and analyzed data on Brazilian and International podcasts hosted on Pocket Casts. Data were collected in July and August 2019 and the code can be found on GitHub.

• Terra de Resistentes: a collaborative project which investigates threats to environmental leaders and their communities in seven countries in Latin America. I contributed with data analysis and visualization on threats to indigenous communities in Rondônia. This story involved data analysis from indigenous lands, deforestation, illegal roads, hydrography, mining, and rural lands.