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Lucas Godoy

PhD Candidate / TA /GA

University of Connecticut

About me

Hello there, I’m Lucas, a Ph.D. candidate studying Statistics at the UConn Department. My research interests primarily revolve around statistical computing, Bayesian inference, spatial statistics, and exploring innovative applications of statistical methodologies. Apart from that, I enjoy learning about programming languages and emerging technologies.

If you browse through this website, you’ll find some of my blog posts, mainly discussing R or statistical concepts, as well as my CV, publications, and ongoing projects.

Interests

  • Statistical Computing
  • Spatial Statistics
  • Bayesian Inference

Education

  • PhD in Statistics, in progress

    University of Connecticut

  • MSc in Statistics, 2019

    Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

  • BSc in Statistics, 2016

    Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Projects

smile - Spatial Misalignment: Interpolation, Linkage, and Estimation

An R package to analyze spatially misaligned data.

transpbrr - An R package

This is an independent project about the public expenses made by the Brazilian government.

Talks

Web Scraping for Sports Data with R

Various sports websites produce tons of data every day. How to collect them might be the first difficulty that people encounter when …

transpbrr

(In portuguese) Talk about the R package transpbrr.

Voronoi Data Linkage

Extracting Information from Polygons to Points.

Web Scraping, Web Services e API’s

(In portuguese) Extracting data from the web using R.

Analyzing Brazilian Public Data

(In portuguese) Talk about Brazilian open data for undergraduate students.

Accomplish­ments

Voronoi Data Linkage

Best Paper Award

An app to visualize and understand several aspects of the Brazilian elections.

Challenge winner.

Recent Publications