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Lucas Godoy

PhD Candidate / TA /GA

University of Connecticut

About me

Hi, my name is Lucas. I’m a Brazilian P.h.D. student at the UConn Department of Statistics. My interests involve statistical computing, spatial statistics, Bayesian inference, and novel applications of statistical methods. In addition, I do like to learn about programming languages and new technologies.

In this website you may found some random blog posts (mainly about R or statistics), my CV, and ongoing projects.

Apart from work, my hobbies are mainly playing soccer, hiking and hanging out with my friends.

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

Blog

Using jupyter on an HPC cluster
All models are wrong
Detecting and installing blog posts dependencies on Github Actions using regex and base R
Estimating regression coefficients using a Neural Network (from scratch)
Maximum Likelihood Estimation
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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 …
Oct 9, 2021 12:00 AM Storrs

transpbrr

(In portuguese) Talk about the R package transpbrr.
Feb 6, 2019 12:00 AM Porto Alegre

Voronoi Data Linkage

Extracting Information from Polygons to Points.
Oct 16, 2018 12:00 AM Salvador

Web Scraping, Web Services e API’s

(In portuguese) Extracting data from the web using R.
Oct 1, 2018 12:00 AM Porto Alegre

Analyzing Brazilian Public Data

(In portuguese) Talk about Brazilian open data for undergraduate students.
Aug 1, 2018 1:00 PM Porto Alegre
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Accomplish­ments

Voronoys - Understanding voters’ profile in Brazilian elections.

1st Shiny Contest RStudio Mar 2019
Honorable mention.

Voronoi Data Linkage

1st Conference on Statistics and Data Science Nov 2018 – Nov 2018
Best Paper Award

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

1st CEPESP Data Challenge: Deciphering Brazilian Elections Dec 2017
Challenge winner.