Argentina´s Senate Expenses 2004-2013

Extracting stories from public DATA formerly unstructured and in PDFs. After finding out that Senate have published expenses since 2004 in raw PDFs, some of them as images and completely unstructured, LA NACION data team managed to scrape, transform, normalize and structure three datasets into one and began an interrogation process that included front page stories, replies from… Seguir leyendo Argentina´s Senate Expenses 2004-2013

Using DevExtreme, HTML5 and Javascript to connect reusable data visualizations with updated data

Since 2012 Lanacion.com keeps an open data catalog, with updated datasets. Besides, we report stories with open data published in Google Spreadsheets . Most of these datasets are manually updated and we use Tableau Public to illustrate most of our stories with interactives as we cannot afford to have developers, we have only one. Since… Seguir leyendo Using DevExtreme, HTML5 and Javascript to connect reusable data visualizations with updated data

CartoDB for Elections Mapping

The LNData team with Manuel Aristarán, Mozilla OpenNews fellow 2013, developed an interactive map that allowed visualization of the results of the 2013 parliamentary election  in the different voting centers of CABA and Buenos Aires province. Also there was access to the details of the telegrams from all tables for more information. The map in CartoDB combined the… Seguir leyendo CartoDB for Elections Mapping

Open Data Catalog using Junar Open Data Platform

  [UPDATED April, 2016] In  March 2012 we launched our “Data Dashboard” or Data Store and we keep updating the  database. 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… Seguir leyendo Open Data Catalog using Junar Open Data Platform