My name is Larissa Cury and I'm a bilingual Data Analyst from Brazil

✨ Creating bugs since 2021
📚 I'm interested in providing insights based on data
🎯 Goals: Work in a Data Analytics Team
🎲 Fun fact: I taught myself R and Stats during my Masters and feel in love with data analysis ever since!

• The project aims to demonstrate some of my skills with R, SQL and Power Bi along with my critical and analytical thinking skills. I broke it down into sections to improve organization and readability.
• I carefully wrote a README for the project's GitHub Repository, which you can find HERE

• I was responsible for the data analysis section of the following articles, which were published in well-known peer-review journals. All analysis were made in R with RSTUDIO IDE.
• For these articles, I was responsible for

  • Extracting and cleaning the data;

  • Performing exploratory data analysis;

  • Obtaining Descriptive Statistics;

  • Performing correlational analysis as well as partial correlations;

  • Performing multiple regression models with random slopes;

  • Data visualization with tables and diverse setting of plots, such as scatter and boxplots;

  • Reporting the data analysis procedures in the articles' Data Analysis Sections;

  • Describing and reporting both descriptive and inferential data analysis in the articles' Results sections

    • Finger, I., Lemke, C.E., Cury, L.S., Mota, N.B., & Weissheimer, J. (accepted for publication). When kids juggle it all: Biliteracy instruction and the development of connected discourse in L1 and L2 writing. Cognitive Development.

    • Lemke, C.E., Cury, L.S., Weissheimer, J., Mota, N.B., & Finger, I. (2023). Longitudinal investigation of connectedness and syntactic complexity in the written production of bilingual children during the COVID-19 pandemic. Letrônica, (16). ACCESS HERE

    • Costa, A.C., Cury, L.S., Finger, I., Mota, N.B., Weissheimer, J. (2023). Two languages in one mind: Biliteracy, speech connectedness and reading in 5th grade bilingual children. Ilha do Desterro, 76: 93-115. ACCESS HERE

MA THESIS

• Cury, L.S. Working memory/short-term memory and reading in bilingual children: a systematic review based on the PRISMA method. ACCESS HERE

BOOK CHAPTERS

• Brentano, L.S., Cury, L.S., Weissheimer, J., & Finger, I. (in press) Alfabetização de crianças bilíngues: ideias, mitos e equívocos na formação (ou falta dela) em contextos de escolarização bilíngue [Literacy of bilingual children: ideas, myths and misconceptions in training (or lack of it) in bilingual schooling contexts]. In U.K. Alves, & I. Finger (Eds.) Literacia e Alfabetização: Da teoria à prática. Campinas, SP: Pontes Editora.