This datajournalism project transformed built and opened the first normalized and comprehensible dataset of official advertising in Argentina covering this 4 year period and grouped by company´s shareholders researched in a different dataset. It produced front page and full page stories and home page news in Lanacion.com, that had lots of impact. It was lead… Seguir leyendo Argentina´s Official advertising funds distribution 2009 – 2013: Friends, politicians and a stylist.
VozData: collaborating to free data from PDFs – The Senate Expenses part II
VozData screenshot 1. Introduction VozData is a collaborative tool for converting public documents trapped in PDFs into a structured database that all citizens can understand and journalists can report from. The application is inspired in “Free the files” by Propublica.org and “MP´s Expenses” by The Guardian; it allows readers and users to be part of the process of checking… Seguir leyendo VozData: collaborating to free data from PDFs – The Senate Expenses part II
Monitoring the new Media Law in Argentina 2009-2013. 94% created were state media, no plural voices as promised so far
LA NACION´s data journalist José Crettaz, together with data team and interactive visualization team from Lanacion.com demonstrated with DATA that the new media law was not fulfilling what it was created for, then opened dataset for everyone to reuse. In 2009 an Audiovisual Communications Law was approved that was very controversial, because many media said… Seguir leyendo Monitoring the new Media Law in Argentina 2009-2013. 94% created were state media, no plural voices as promised so far
2013 Elections data-driven Highlights
LA NACION produced a multimedia and multiplatform coverage of the 2013 legislative elections with a focus on innovation through datajournalism as the fundamental tool to show content in a new way and to present the information in a more transparent way . Here are 5 data-driven highlights.