INCAA II – Step by step, how we built these datasets from scratch

>>> PREVIOUS: Subsidies to the Argentina´s movies industry 2008-2014 Scrapping and building this dataset from scratch by Ricardo Brom   We build this data set from 2008 , and today we keep it updated these are more than 70 PDF files some PDFs are monthly, some annual and some cover a whole semester Some challenges: PDF´s… Seguir leyendo INCAA II – Step by step, how we built these datasets from scratch

Publicada el
Categorizado como DATA, ENGLISH

Investigating Argentina’s prisons

Meanwhile insecurity is a main concern in Argentina, many myths are spread about delinquency and especially about jails and Argentine prison population. Among them, one of the common beliefs regarding inmates is that their time in jail is rather smooth when compared with their crime or prejudices that are connecting criminality with immigration. La Nación… Seguir leyendo Investigating Argentina’s prisons

DATAFEST 2014 – Opening Data for others to Mine

DATAFEST 2014 – Opening Data for others to Mine – LA NACION and Austral University (Data Mining Masters and Communications School) Introduction On October 31 and November 1st, 2014, La Nación and Austral University (Faculties of Communication and Engineering (Data Mining)  carried out the third edition of Datafest, the first event in the country for… Seguir leyendo DATAFEST 2014 – Opening Data for others to Mine

Opening data and Doing Data Journalism in a country without FOIA

After another year of training and consistency in the data project of LA NACION, many journaslists and oportunities of new projects appeared. We continued reporting from datasets built from scratch and then transformed, opened and shared by our team in print, online and social media. We gave our third internal training program of Data Journalism,… Seguir leyendo Opening data and Doing Data Journalism in a country without FOIA