LA NACION DATA TEAM (ARGENTINA)

Project Description Since 2011 LN Data has been a strategy, a content initiative and a team whose goals are to facilitate open data journalism in LA NACION and impact for change in Argentina. Our team has been formed by the same initial three members, Ricardo, data engineer for investigative reporting in LN Data, Flor, research… Seguir leyendo LA NACION DATA TEAM (ARGENTINA)

Energy cutoffs II – ENRE (National Electricity Regulatory Entity) :: Technical Details

Energy cutoffs – ENRE (National Electricity Regulatory Entity) Software is executed every hour and collects data from different sources, then it updates them on a file in an OneDrive folder which is shared by anyone who needs to access said information. To guarantee its operation, at least during the experimental stage, the software is executed… Seguir leyendo Energy cutoffs II – ENRE (National Electricity Regulatory Entity) :: Technical Details

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Letters to the Presidents

 How this project began At La Nación Data we are always aware of those areas of government which produce public interest information and, however, are not well known. If we look at the flow chart of the Government Administration, we found that there was an area named Dirección de Documentación Presidencial (Presidential Document Department). We… Seguir leyendo Letters to the Presidents

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