Fernando Meireles
Professor Adjunto at Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Top SchoolFernando Meireles is a political scientist and data-driven researcher with 12 years of experience bridging academia and applied public-opinion consulting in Brazil. As Professor Adjunto at IESP-UERJ and partner at Quaest, he blends machine learning, causal inference, and survey methods to study how institutions and elections shape representation, and previously led data science efforts as Quaest’s Chief Data Scientist. His career spans postdoctoral positions at CEBRAP and UFMG, a lecturership at FGV EESP, and a visiting scholarship at Essex, reflecting a rare mix of rigorous scholarship and practical electoral analytics. An open-source developer for social science tools, he brings reproducible research practices to empirical political inquiry and frequently translates complex methods into usable tools for policymakers and researchers.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Visiting Scholar, Political Science, Visiting Scholar, Political Science at University of EssexDoutorado, Ciência Política, Doutorado, Ciência Política at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Github Skills (10)
scrape10
meta9
r-package9
predict9
brazil8
datasets7
fetch6
deflate4
cran3
r2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
meirelesff/siconvr
Mar 2021 - Sep 2021
An R package to fetch data from Plataforma +Brasil (Siconv)
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 30 commits in 5 months
public-datar-packagefetch-datarstatsplataforma
meirelesff/rscielo
May 2017 - Apr 2020
An R package to scrape meta-data from scientific articles hosted on Scielo
Contributions:1 release, 34 commits, 43 pushes in 2 years 11 months
r-packagescrapescielohostedmeta
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