Kingmakers: Who Gains Power When Nobody Wins?
Game-theory analysis of coalition power across 308 municipalities.
Rui Barros
Data journalist at PÚBLICO. I build the scrapers, models and interactives behind the stories.
- Talks at CORRECTIV.Europe Network · MediaCon 2025, Goethe Institut · Oeiras Valley Science Festival
- 9 awards
Recent work
All projects →Which Course is Right for You?
A RIASEC model and machine learning match 60 answers to Portuguese degrees.
Electoral Dating
6,000+ policy measures matched to voters across 56 dimensions.
Writing
All posts →The Right to Break Things
Sometimes the price of tinkering is paying for your mistakes. And that's okay.
How to Find Hidden APIs Using AI
Discover how AI can find and document hidden APIs in government portals and data websites in minutes instead of hours. Step-by-step tutorial using Chrome DevTools MCP with real examples.
Fuzzy matching, but for concepts
There's a special kind of despair that comes with staring at two datasets that should obviously connect, but refuse to play nice. You know they belong together but no fuzzy matching technique can help you. It's a concept that you wanna match. Zero-shooting can be the solution.