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Insights on Psychology, Public Health and Finance

Tutorials and analyses on psychology, public health and financial markets, with a focus on data and R programming.

Welcome to my blog! Here I share insights, tutorials, and thoughts on psychology, public health, and financial markets, always with a focus on data analysis and R programming.

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healthbR or microdatasus? The two R packages for DATASUS, side by side on the same download

SIM, SINASC and SIH read by both packages: what each returns, how long it takes, where codes become labels — and one trap on each side

Querying SIDRA through MCP in Claude and ChatGPT — IBGE inside the assistant, with provenance

How to connect ibge-br-mcp in each client, and one real query end to end: from the question to the URL that reproduces it

ICD-10, ICD-11 and what changes for people working with Brazilian health data

The V2008 structure in numbers, and what WHO’s transition tables are — and are not

Central Bank of Brazil series: SGS, Focus and PTAX without the traps

Three API limits measured live, level series vs. rate series, and what the ODbL requires

Financial markets

Finding the right SIDRA table — and knowing that it is the right one

The three steps, the metadata that settles it, and the four traps that cost the most