Daniel Loiola
Research Scientist
Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Top SchoolDaniel Loiola is a research scientist and media researcher with eight years of experience studying how digital platforms shape information, misinformation, and sociotechnical imaginaries. He pairs rigorous academic training (PhD in Communication Science, visiting research at Politecnico di Milano) with hands-on engineering skills—building large-scale Python crawlers, FastAPI pipelines and Elasticsearch systems that have scaled data collection to millions of items for disinformation monitoring. His work blends digital methods, data visualization and platform studies, having developed novel bot-based experiments on YouTube recommendation bubbles and contributed to international data sprints analyzing political communications. Daniel has translated research into practical tools and workshops that make computational methods accessible to non-technical humanists and journalists. He is equally comfortable in academic publishing and operational deployments for newsrooms and NGOs, evidenced by collaborations with media partners like Rede Globo and Open Knowledge Brasil. A distinctive strength is his ability to move between theory and production: designing critical, STS-informed research while shipping reliable data infrastructure used in real-world investigations.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Visiting Scholar (PhD) Design, Visiting Scholar (PhD) Design at Politecnico di MilanoData Foundations Nanodegree, Data Foundations Nanodegree at UdacityPós-graduação em Comunicação Digital, Pós-graduação em Comunicação Digital at PUC MinasDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) - Communication Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) - Communication Science at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian
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Github Skills (15)
chromecast7
elm6
large-language-models5
typescript5
twitter-application4
twitter4
youtube-api4
youtube4
gpt3
javascript3
socket-io3
mobile3
flask3
ai3
bootstrap3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
danielfeloiola/tube_plotter
Oct 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:120 commits, 21 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
danielfeloiola/PuppyBot
Apr 2019 - Jul 2026
A bot that retweets images of puppies
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 3 months
puppiesretweetsbotdiscord-bot
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