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… Seguir leyendo Playing with World Cup Data
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Vozdata II: civic participation for investigative reporting, open data and educational platform
VozData is a collaborative tool to convert public documents trapped in closed formats into a structured database. Information proccessed is suitable for general audience understanding and for journalists to analyse and report. The application was inspired by The Guardian “MP´s Expenses” and Propublica´s “Free the files”. VozData´s first initiative was Senate Expenses (Argentina), divided in… Seguir leyendo Vozdata II: civic participation for investigative reporting, open data and educational platform
Subsidies to the Argentina´s movies industry 2008-2014
In Argentina, the local movie industry would not exist if it wasn´t for this public funds destined to support movies production. But until now the system to assign this funds was not used to be audited, to be transparent presenting its numbers. The PDFs published in the web site had just an administrative goal, and… Seguir leyendo Subsidies to the Argentina´s movies industry 2008-2014
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