In Argentina, the local movie industry would not exist if it wasn´t for this public funds destined to support movies production. But until now the system to assign this funds was not used to be audited, to be transparent presenting its numbers. The PDFs published in the web site had just an administrative goal, and… Seguir leyendo Subsidies to the Argentina´s movies industry 2008-2014
INCAA II – Step by step, how we built these datasets from scratch
>>> PREVIOUS: Subsidies to the Argentina´s movies industry 2008-2014 Scrapping and building this dataset from scratch by Ricardo Brom We build this data set from 2008 , and today we keep it updated these are more than 70 PDF files some PDFs are monthly, some annual and some cover a whole semester Some challenges: PDF´s… Seguir leyendo INCAA II – Step by step, how we built these datasets from scratch
Investigating Argentina’s prisons
Meanwhile insecurity is a main concern in Argentina, many myths are spread about delinquency and especially about jails and Argentine prison population. Among them, one of the common beliefs regarding inmates is that their time in jail is rather smooth when compared with their crime or prejudices that are connecting criminality with immigration. La Nación… Seguir leyendo Investigating Argentina’s prisons
DATAFEST 2014 – Opening Data for others to Mine
DATAFEST 2014 – Opening Data for others to Mine – LA NACION and Austral University (Data Mining Masters and Communications School) Introduction On October 31 and November 1st, 2014, La Nación and Austral University (Faculties of Communication and Engineering (Data Mining) carried out the third edition of Datafest, the first event in the country for… Seguir leyendo DATAFEST 2014 – Opening Data for others to Mine