LA NACION DATA website is not just a website, it´s a strategy, a project and a team. The strategy has to do with the commitment of using data to tell stories and expand the use of data, preferably open data, to activate demand of public information, in a country that just passed a FOIA law.
The internal strategy is to work in teams with journalists, tv producers and infographers so we just facilitate the data and help in the investigation or analysis, but they are the ones who domain the topic and know how to tell the stories. Seguir leyendo →
As a way to reach the community and focus our strategy vision we partnered with Stanford University, as a local host for Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference.
The Global Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference aims to inspire and educate data scientists worldwide, regardless of gender, and support women in the field.
LA NACION & the Engineering Faculty at Universidad de Buenos Aires hosted the 2nd edition in Argentina.
Since 2011 when LA NACION Data was launched as an open data journalism initiative, its strategy has been the same: to do data journalism AND to open data.
The vision we have is that each set of data that is published means that more knowledge is released.
The first step to make datasets famous is to become open data USERS. And if there is no open data, no problem, we need to become PRODUCERS and transform from closed formats to open data. We have to find and convert public information, so we file FOIA requests, we use more than 8 OCR engines combined with processes that automatize the feed from that closed PDF to a database adding rows in a database per month or daily, and we even type from handwritten data files.
and this year, during a civic marathon at LA NACION we got the visit of the new appointed Director of Senate Transparency. Take a look at our Facebook Album!
