arrudafranco / data-analysis-samples

Some samples of data analysis projects I have done before. Includes computational textual analysis of religious responses to COVID in Brazil, and exploratory data analysis of support to democracy variables broken down by religion in the Latinobarometro survey.

Data Analysis Samples

These are some samples of data analysis projects I have done before:

• sample_COVID_religion_BR.md is a paper containing a probabilistic topical model of online religious responses to the pandemic, with a focus on Brazilian Evangelical groups during the first semester of 2020. It clarified to me some challenges in negotiating public policy decisions with multiple stakeholders. Additionally, I had to develop my own set of stop words in Portuguese specific to this topic in order to draw meaningful insights from the data.
• sample_religion_democracy_BR.md is a paper containing an exploratory analysis of the relationship between religious and democracy support variables in Brazil. I am especially proud of the function variable_selection in Appendix 1, which combines data from multiple years of the same survey using its codebook.