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In June 2016 we held the  Datafest 4th edition, an event of opening, mining and visualization of public data destined to journalists, communicators, data miners, designers, programmers and specialists from different areas. The agenda of the meeting included exhibitions of international referents of data journalism, workshops, open seminars and panels on Open Government issues at national,… Seguir leyendo A special event for Open Data

Once again we discover stories in large datasets, in this case, the new public bike system implemented by the City of Buenos Aires since 2010 has produced and now opened a dataset that lets us know the citizens behaviour, the evolution of user´s demand and if this service is valuable, well dimensioned, and useful for… Seguir leyendo Free public bikes are used 4 times more on weekdays that weekends

Background Argentina faces an energy crisis, a result of the politics played in the last 10 or 12 years; the Government kept frozen prices for users, but those prices were subsidized by the State. On this regard, distribution companies did not make the necessary investments to replace obsolete facilities or accompany urban changes: family residence… Seguir leyendo Monitoring electricity in a country facing severe energy crisis

Proving inflation when there are no official stats has been very hard during the last 6 years in Argentina. One of the problems we had was that as inflation increased but was not recognized in official stats, more and more pesos bills were printed, and the highest amount was the bill of 100 pesos. So… Seguir leyendo Tracking the monetary base in pesos 2003-2017, and how this speaks about inflation