Portfolio
For the past decade, I've transformed complex data into compelling narratives that inform and engage. My work spans interactive digital features, data-driven investigations, and impactful storytelling.
Featured projects
Electoral Dating
Swipe right for tax cuts? Left for climate action? This interactive tool gamifies political engagement by transforming 6,000+ policy measures into a dating app experience for Portuguese voters. Using AI and data analysis, we created a 56-dimensional matching algorithm that makes discovering your political match fun and accessible.
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GPS - The Great Poll Portal
Can data predict who will win the next election? This interactive forecast model for Portugal's 2025 legislative elections combines 200+ socioeconomic indicators with historical voting patterns to simulate 10,000+ electoral scenarios.
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Make Your Own School Ranking
We've transformed comprehensive Ministry of Education data into a customizable algorithm where users adjust six critical factors according to their personal priorities.
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Brain Waste
Cross-border investigation with Lighthouse Reports, El País, FT, and Unbias The News analyzing exclusive Eurostat microdata to expose the reality of qualified immigrants struggling with diploma recognition.
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What we know (and don't know) about immigration in Portugal
Innovative scrollytelling experience that cuts through immigration myths by presenting dual perspectives: one backed by solid data, the other highlighting critical knowledge gaps.
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Where Does Three-Quarters of European Party Funding Come From? No one knows
Cross-border investigation with 25 European newsrooms (including The Guardian, El País, and Papertrail Media) coordinated by Follow the Money that tracked private donations to EU political parties.
read moreAwards and recognition
- Data Journalism AwardPortuguese Statistical Society (SPE) 2024
- Awarded for the piece "1926-1974-2022. Como evoluiu o país da ditadura à democracia"
- Honorable mention for "Somos oito mil milhões"
- Journalism in Health AwardAPIFARMA/Journalists' Club 2022, 2024
- Digital Journalism category for “A Máquina de salvar vidas” (2022)
- “Enxaquecas: Viver com uma ‘bomba-relógio’ na cabeça” (2024)
- Sigma Awards - ShortlistedSigma Awards 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024
- Multiple nominations for innovative data journalism projects.
- Journalism for Sustainability AwardsFundação Mestre Casais and CEiiA 2022
- Second place for the digital project "Habitação: Do Protesto à Proposta"
- Cyberjornalism AwardsObciber (Universidade do Porto) 2015, 2022, 2023
- Multiple awards in Digital Infographics and Multimedia categories.
- European Newspaper AwardThe European Newspaper Awards 2021, 2022, 2023
- Award of Excellence for “Infographics Online/Data Journalism”
- Journalism Research GrantCalouste Gulbenkian Foundation 2021
- Certificate of Honor - News Corp Media Fellowship for Global JournalistsICFJ November 2019
- Excellence ScholarshipUniversity of Minho 2014, 2015, 2016
Training & Workshops
I'm always eager to share my knowledge and experience with others. Are you interested in learning more about data journalism, data visualization, or data storytelling? Let's talk!
🍰 Six AI recipes for the modern journalist
Session about agent design patterns for data journalism
From data to graphics: how to communicate research data
Session on how to communicate research data through visualization.
So, you wanna talk with your documents using AI?
Basics of Large Language Models (LLMs) and how to build a tool for interacting with documents using AI.
Presentations & Publications
- Máquinas que fazem perguntasOeiras Valley Science Festival · 2025
- Code like a journalistSvelte Meetup Portugal · 2024
- Hack the newsroom: How data-driven journalism is changing the newsDSPT #97 · 2021Read more
- Data Journalism: Much More Than Using Numbers to Tell StoriesRevista Jornalismo & Jornalistas · 2021Read more
- The Precise Algorithm, the Confusing Algorithm, and Media EducationWebinar GT Communication and Education, SOPCOM · 2021
- The Impact of Wikipedia on the World of Free CultureRoundtable - Wiki-Lusofonia Festival · 2021
- Generating Story Ideas from Data - Lessons from PortugalDataharvest · 2020
- Lusophone Data JournalismSchool of Data · 2020Read more