Journalist Lucrecia Bullrich (Political section, paper edition) together with LNData team did research to evaluate how government and opposition legislators that were running for reelection in the 2013 Legislative Elections voted; and how was the debate on those bills between 2009 and the present.

The team selected 10 important laws voted between 2009 and 2013, and analyzed the vote of 26 national deputies (Voters under 18 ask for more training) that competed for reelection in the lower chamber or for a seat in the Senate.

Watch the following step by step video for the collection of data required for this project:

The story included a tableau visualization with a view of how the candidates voted on the 10 bills, filtered by bill and name of legislator. It is also possible to see the detail of the affirmative, negative and abstention votes on a particular bill.

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X-ray of 26 candidates according to their behavior relative to 10 key laws

Journalist Laura Serra (Political section, paper edition) and the LNData team worked together to study the attendance records of 74 national deputies (members of the lower chamber of Congress) that aspired to extend their mandate in the Parliamentary Elections of 2013.

The conclusion the team arrived at after studying the data is that, of the universe of 74 candidates, the opposition legislators were the ones presenting the highest indices of absenteeism in the last three and a half years.

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The story also includes a Tableau presentation that allows user to visualize a ranking of the 74 candidates with the best and worst attendance record for the 57 sessions studied.

The visualization also allowed filtering by name of deputy, year or party block (party), allowing users to do their own detailed searches and investigations.

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Opposition candidates that want to renew their mandates with the most absentee at the top