## Lucas Godoy

### University of Connecticut

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

• 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.

Extracting Information from Polygons to Points.

### Web Scraping, Web Services e API’s

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

# Accomplish­ments

Best Paper Award

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

Challenge winner.