# About me


- [Who I am](#who-i-am)
- [What I have built](#what-i-have-built)
- [Where I come from](#where-i-come-from)
- [How I work](#how-i-work)
- [Outside of work](#outside-of-work)
- [Contact](#contact)

## Who I am

I am a psychologist, with a master’s degree and training in
psychoanalysis, and I now work with Brazilian public data. I build tools
that deliver that data ready to check: every figure comes with its
source, and the way back to it.

That requirement is not technical fussiness. It comes from two
directions that met: from research, where a figure without provenance
cannot hold an argument; and from the clinic, where I learned that the
dangerous thing is not *not knowing* — it is believing you know.

## What I have built

**[MCP servers](./tools/)** — six servers that give AI assistants live
access to data from IBGE (Brazilian statistics), the Central Bank of
Brazil, the Federal Senate, DataSUS, and the international databases of
the ILO and UNESCO. Every response carries provenance; all six score
100% on protocol conformity, with automated checks that block
regression.

**[R packages](./packages/)** — five packages for accessing public data,
two of them published on CRAN: `educabR`, for education data from INEP,
and `healthbR`, for public health.

**Dashboards** (in preparation) — visualisations of epidemiological
indicators computed from official data published by the Brazilian
Ministry of Health and IBGE.

**A citable dataset** — the participation layer of the Federal Senate’s
e-Cidadania portal, versioned, with a DOI on Zenodo and a per-field
provenance envelope. It is the layer no existing legislative data
package covered.

## Where I come from

Before I wrote code, I wrote about psychoanalysis. My first published
article examines how the concept of transference appears in Breuer and
Freud’s *Studies on Hysteria* — and argues that what the later tradition
treated as “the whole relationship between patient and analyst” was, in
the original text, something far more specific and far stranger.

That sounds distant from downloading DATASUS microdata, and it is not.
In both cases the work is the same: read the source carefully, find
where it says less than it appears to say, and never let interpretation
pass itself off as description.

## How I work

Three things I always do, which explain most of my technical choices:

**Provenance before convenience.** A number that cannot be traced back
to its origin does not enter an analysis of mine. That is why every
server and every package hands back the source along with the data.

**Verification derived from the source.** A count written by hand next
to the thing it describes rots in silence. I would rather have a test
that confronts the claim with the origin — and fails loudly when they
diverge.

**A noisy error instead of a plausible answer.** When something cannot
be answered safely, the tool has to say so. Wrong data under a
good-looking label is worse than an error, because it looks like an
answer.

## Outside of work

I read philosophy and history, watch documentaries, and spend time with
my family. I think a balanced life makes for better thinking — and I am
wary of people with only one thing in their heads.

## Contact

Write to <sbissoli76@gmail.com>, or find me on
[GitHub](https://github.com/SidneyBissoli) and
[LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/sidneybissoli/).