Candichat, an interview to the candidates through WhatsApp

Date of publication 17-10-2017 >>> Live Link <<<   Description of the project This project was conceived to join citizens and candidates to legislator in view of the crucial legislative elections in Argentina in 2017. To achieve an attractive experience for any user, it was designed a platform which simulated a conversation with politicians through… Seguir leyendo Candichat, an interview to the candidates through WhatsApp

Malvinas

Project Description In 1982, the civilian military regime that ruled Argentina at that time sent conscripted soldiers who were not even 20 years old to fight in Malvinas against the British Army. Many of them died at the island and other 121 soldiers were buried in unnamed tombs and with heartbreaking words on it: Argentine… Seguir leyendo Malvinas

Argentina´s Senate Expenses 2004-2013

Extracting stories from public DATA formerly unstructured and in PDFs. After finding out that Senate have published expenses since 2004 in raw PDFs, some of them as images and completely unstructured, LA NACION data team managed to scrape, transform, normalize and structure three datasets into one and began an interrogation process that included front page stories, replies from… Seguir leyendo Argentina´s Senate Expenses 2004-2013