Denisson Silva
Pesquisador at Fundação Getulio Vargas
Alagoas, Brazil
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Top SchoolDenisson Silva is a political scientist and data-driven researcher with 11 years of experience studying elections, campaign finance, state legislatures, party systems and administrative improbity. He holds a PhD in Political Science from UFMG, a master's in Sociology and a BA in Social Sciences from UFAL, and completed postdoctoral work in political science. Currently a researcher at Fundação Getulio Vargas, he combines quantitative methodology and data science to design, collect and analyze electoral and public-opinion datasets. He has led data teams in the private sector and taught numerous R courses on data collection, web scraping, visualization and manipulation across Brazilian universities and research centers. His work bridges academic publication and practical electoral intelligence, producing reproducible analyses for both scholarly and operational audiences. Based in Alagoas, he often draws on public socioeconomic data to create actionable reports that inform policy debates beyond academia.
11 years of coding experience
Mestrado Sociologia, Mestrado Sociologia at Universidade Federal de AlagoasPós-Doutorado Ciência Política, Pós-Doutorado Ciência Política at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Github Skills (13)
python9
science9
r-package9
scrape9
computational-social-science9
meta8
cran5
r4
r-language2
data-repository2
cnc1
scraper1
data-science1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
silvadenisson/summer-institute
Feb 2023 - Mar 2025
Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science
Contributions:4 PRs, 162 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years 1 month
silvadenisson/electionsBR
Aug 2016 - Dec 2022
Contributions:176 commits, 8 PRs, 192 pushes in 6 years 5 months
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