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

CONGRESOSCOPIO, a news application to follow the legislative work of our congressmen.

To follow the behavior of legislators in Congress at Argentina is not a simple task, so an interdisciplinary team of journalists, designers and developers at LA NACION, created a news app called Congresoscopio that allows all citizens to explore in detail the parliamentary performance of individual MPs. Until now, this information was inaccessible or published… Seguir leyendo CONGRESOSCOPIO, a news application to follow the legislative work of our congressmen.

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