2 citations · 3 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for
4 papers
A Weight-Dependent 1RM Prediction Equation Optimized on 303,494 Near-Failure Sets Across 388 Exercises
Thiago Marzagao
Classical equations for predicting one-repetition maximum (1RM) from submaximal performance were derived from small samples performing a single exercise, yet are routinely applied…
Putting a price on tenure
Thiago Marzagao
Government employees in Brazil are granted tenure after three years on the job. Firing a tenured government employee is all but impossible, so tenure is a big employee benefit. But…
Using SVM to pre-classify government purchases
Thiago Marzagão
The Brazilian government often misclassifies the goods it buys. That makes it hard to audit government expenditures. We cannot know whether the price paid for a ballpoint pen (code…
Using NLP to measure democracy
Thiago Marzagão
This paper uses natural language processing to create the first machine-coded democracy index, which I call Automated Democracy Scores (ADS). The ADS are based on 42 million news a…