Teaching

AI agents for social science research: an introduction to Claude Code

Methodological Training of MAPE · Graduate

From chat to agents: installing Claude Code, CLAUDE.md and skills, plan mode and context management, with live demos of a literature search through the OpenAlex API and of roll-call data from the Chamber of Deputies API.

Introduction to AI agents in academic research

LABIIA

AI agents for social science research: an introduction to Claude Code

CERES, IESP-UERJ

Deep Learning & Text-as-Data

10th Student Week of the Postgraduate Programs, IESP-UERJ · Graduate

Fundamentals of deep learning: what it is and how to train a neural network, and text-as-data with deep learning.

Machine Learning

Methodological Training of MAPE · Graduate

Fundamentals of machine learning, focusing on recognizing, training, interpreting, and evaluating simple predictive models applied to social research.

Automated Text Analysis

SICSS 2025

Python, data analysis, and machine learning for research

Research team of Plataforma CIPÓ

Four modules for the research team of an institute on climate and international governance, from data types and charts to classification models, a neural network built from scratch, and open models run locally. Co-taught with Matheus Cavalcanti Pestana.

Advanced Text-as-Data

IESP-UERJ Winter School · Graduate

Deep Learning, Transformers, Embeddings, and Large Language Models applied to political science research.

Instructors: Tiago Ventura and Sebastián Vallejo Vera.

Quantitative Methods II

FGV CPDOC · Undergraduate

Exploratory data analysis, basic statistical inference, and regression models.

Instructor: Jairo Nicolau.

Introduction to R

FGV CPDOC · Graduate

Introduction to programming for social sciences.

Instructor: Jimmy Medeiros.