LA NACION continued in 2014-2015 with its effort to use data as new raw material for journalism and to contribute to open data in Argentina while reporting or as a way to activate demand of more public information, in a country still without a FOI Law. After another year of training and consistency in the… Seguir leyendo LA NACION DATA: Open Data Journalism for Change
How community and open source code drive LNData
The web, or more than that, digital media consumed from any platform, is the richest place to express any form of communication, to enrich any content or message and reach a large audience. Journalism has the greatest opportunity ever to access to all these formats and platforms, to produce and reuse the best quality content… Seguir leyendo How community and open source code drive LNData
Playing with World Cup Data
In a conjunction of efforts done to transform the newsroom into a data aware one, we worked hard to make a special coverage of the World Cup using data. In most of the visualizations, the information was analyzed and checked on the FIFA webpage. In the case of goals data, the information was manually updated… Seguir leyendo Playing with World Cup Data
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