Introduction Knowing that 2015 was going to be a strong election’s year in Argentina at La Nación we started early planning a strategy to tackle a long known problem that kept us from being able to show our readers the election results at a very fine-grained level. The geolocation of all the polling stations in… Seguir leyendo Argentina 2015 presidential elections Geolocating polling stations
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Using City of Buenos Aires Open Data to monitor citizen´s reports
The City of Buenos Aires publishes it´s citizens reports in a very structured nice way through their portal Buenos Aires “Data” in CSVs per year since 2011 . In 2015 it reached more than 840.000 rows, as every year it grows so we integrated all the years into a SQL server so we can make… Seguir leyendo Using City of Buenos Aires Open Data to monitor citizen´s reports
Argentina: Elections 2015
During 2015, Argentina had national and local elections including executive and legislative branches. It was a record for us citizens to vote in 6 opportunities the same year, for example in the City of Buenos Aires. In the national level, we had three elections: the Primaries, the General and the Ballotage elections in which president… Seguir leyendo Argentina: Elections 2015
Vozdata 2015: Unveiling Argentina´s elections system failures with impact.
Producing evidence data through Open data journalism and civic collaboration . I. Elections transparency impact after comparing digitized primary elections telegrams with manually completed forms using technology and citizen participation in Argentina. Our third Vozdata Project. In 2015, presidential elections were held in Argentina with massive protests and complaints in some provinces as regards… Seguir leyendo Vozdata 2015: Unveiling Argentina´s elections system failures with impact.