It´s a new functionality that allows the users follow and fav the authors, tags and topics of their interest.
While following an author or tag, a page is built with all the articles from the last 30 days with chronological order where you can see if there is new content that hasn´t been read, or content that has already been read. Seguir leyendo
The Industrial and Financial activity data ready series, are new series of datasets that include a dataViz ready. We prepared each of these series manually, to be ready to illustrate many stories that reuse data or that are monitoring industries, financial activities or employment.
To do this this we developed “LNViz”, a tool that takes our data from dgocs and builds a chart, keeping it updated as we update the data series. Developed once by our interactive team it allows us to build charts from data with the journalists without the need of a developer or a designer. Then these charts are embedded in the articles and allows the users to download the data series.
Example of cars patented in Argentina 2012-2015
All of these series are updated manually from PDFs, but automatically shown in the front end, and the data is opened in Csv or XML. Seguir leyendo
In a conjunction of efforts done to transform the newsroom into a data aware one, we worked hard to make a special coverage of the World Cup using data. In most of the visualizations, the information was analyzed and checked on the FIFA webpage. In the case of goals data, the information was manually updated each day.
A team integrated by a journalist, a Data Miner and two visualizations experts were able to create 5 different articles that included data pieces. These were:
“Only 11 of the 736 football players play in Brazil”
The article provided information about the tendency there is of football players preferring to play in Europe (76% of them) rather than in other continents. The article included a Tableau that showed where each of the players actually played during the year. Seguir leyendo
The candidates for president in Argentina are already immersed in the complex electoral race with focus on arriving to the Casa Rosada by the end of 2015. A good exercise for voters is to explore as a wayback machine and review the political past of each candidate, and get more background beyond their promises or public statements.
LA NACION launched by the end of 2014 “The Political Maze 2015”, an interactive tool for visualizing the political path made by the major candidates and crosses between them in different political parties during previous elections. Seguir leyendo
To follow the behavior of legislators in Congress at Argentina is not a simple task, so an interdisciplinary team of journalists, designers and developers at LA NACION, created a news app called Congresoscopio that allows all citizens to explore in detail the parliamentary performance of individual MPs.
Until now, this information was inaccessible or published in no particular order and/or closed formats, so, from now on, citizens may use this application as a new source to learn more about the behaviour of those that represent us.
For topical reporting on Congress, we have an aggregated tag to monitor parlamentary action and when each law is passed (often during the night), we report about the particularities regarding the new legislation and make a process to convert a PDF with each vote to an interactive data visualisation that will be embeded in the reporting. An example of how this work can be seen in this example of a law passed recently regarding trains in Argentina.
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1. “START” page
With an interactive graph that simulates a chamber with the current layout in Congress, you can browse position to position in order to access information from each of the MP’s.
2. “LAWS” page Seguir leyendo
As a way to enrich stories, Lanacion.com adapted it´s CMS to integrate data as context in our content topical tags. Every news application or data platform we develop must be structured with this in mind so data as context can be distributed in topical or persons tags.
To do this, we first normalize names and then cross them with our TAGS database, and those that are in both datasets are automatically augmented by data or direct urls to our news applications.
For example: in a Legislator´s tag: her Statement of Asset, her path in politics, and even her profile can be presented, together with all the reporting.
Example 1) Person´s TAG: this is Elisa Carrio´s TAG – home page in Lanacion.com
This is the link to our Statements of Assets news application – Elisa Carrió statements of assets page
Elisa Carrio´s Political path from another of our news application “Laberinto Político”
We partnered an NGO that monitors legislative transparency Fundación Directorio Legislativo, and they make every year the Book “Directorio Legislativo” and a web site with structured profile data from Congressmen and Senators. So other link that serves to learn more of that legislator is the “Ficha en Directorio Legislativo”, and it looks like this:
In Argentina, where we don´t have an access to information law yet, LA NACION and other three NGO´s that work towards transparency (Poder Ciudadano, ACIJ and Fundación Directorio Legislativo) worked together to develop the first site concerning the heritage of public servants, making the information accessible to anyone with a computer and an Internet connection.
The work included more than 30 volunteers manually entering data and generating a structured and searchable dataset from scanned PDFs. The project included all of LA NACION DATA team, using collaborative tools, coordinating cross checking procesess and 6 full day check-a-thons that included the volunteers.
As they assume their public duties, public officials in Argentina, are required to fill out a statement declaring their assets and then they are asked to update that information every year, while they’re in office. Even though the records are public, the information was not easily accessible to ordinary citizens, and of course when asked, it were given in print copies.
Declaraciones Juradas Abiertas was born in a unique political scenario. A new law regulating public officials’ affidavits was passed, which omits asset information of the children and spouses of public officials in future affidavits, reducing the amount of information previously available. The family asset situation is vital to create a chart of the current patrimony of a public servant for an illicit gain investigation. The application, which was launched on Sept. 28 (International Right To Know Day) includes 1540 affidavits from more than 800 public officials (the members of President Cristina Fernández’s cabinet of ministers, legislators and judges, among others). It contains detailed information about their financial assets and properties over the years.
The interactive application that allows users to read a large volume of information and do comparisons, with an easy visual interface, includes the possibility to explore every original PDF document in detail, using DocumentCloud.
After the requests of the statements of assets was made to the Anticorruption Office (OA) and other offices, all the information came in print and in boxes. Each file was around 5/7 pages long.
The priority was given to the affidavits of the most relevant seats of each power and to the candidates for october 2013 legislative elections.
In March 2012 we launched our “Data Dashboard” or Data Store.
This site hosts the datasets Lanacion.com is opening and is powered by “Junar” an open data platform. We integrated this platform that helps our readers download data, embed datastreams or share them in social media.
The platform has an API so than any user can download all data in a single action.
As a way to ease navigation and serve our users we are offering special catalogs for inflation in Argentina from different sources as this is a very controversial and sensitive information in Argentina. Seguir leyendo