4. Data.gov Portals?
In 2012 – Buenos Aires
City and Misiones
Province opened data
portals
5. A vision for several actions
What?
LA NACION decided to challenge status quo and
started opening data and developing data
journalism
6. Why?
- Data is a new raw material for journalism
- Move public data closer to the people
- Activate demand of public data
- Discover new stories hidden in datasets
- Allow citizen´s collaboration + innovate
7. How?
a. Gathering and building datasets from scratch.
b. Free tools for opening and visualizing data, and
reusing data shared by others (eg. Guardian)
c. Data presence in www.lanacion.com
- home page section in main navigation bar (LNDATA)
- TAG that integrates stories with open data or dataviz
- @LNdata Twitter & Facebook
- Open Data Catalog
- Blog NATION DATA
- DATAFEST
14. Transport Agency – Processing
CCP Subsidy corresponding to March 2012
ccp_sistau_marzo12(6).xlsx (Subsidio
CCP)
BUT: 1.200 Rows (Companies)
21 Columns
1.600 PDF files (subsidies CASH y Gasoil for Buses and Trains) from 2003 to now (March
2013).
)
15. Transport Secretary – Analysis
Monthly consolidation for 3 subsidies for each company, and geographic zone
Subsidies paid in 2010 USD 4.260.000 ….. per day
18. Transportation Regulatory Agency (CNRT) – Capture
Buses registered by each company, according to
the Public Transport Regulation Agency (CNRT)
and its vehicle plates (monthly basis).
Number of vehicles
36. • Besides daily efforts, we opened 21 datasets and made “Dataset cheat sheets”
to make them accessible and ready for analysis with data mining techniques or
data visualization in our first DATAFEST in Argentina last November.
• This DATAFEST was organized by LA NACION and UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL
Masters Degree in Data Mining and Universidad Austral Communications
Faculty.
40. Cheat Sheet : Subsidies for the Public Bus Transport System – Cleaned ,
normalized and open DATA
41. Key factors
Key Factors:
Team work, training, use free tools, never stop
learning, work by projects, daily data awareness,
be proactive in hackathons, be open to
international support: Knight- ICFJ Fellowship, Knight
Mozilla Opennews Partner, Knight Foundation Datafest
support.
42. Technology Challenges
• Manage multiple sources and formats
• Automate process to bring data daily to readers & journalism
in open formats
• Structure the unstructured data
• Connect the dots
43. Human Challenges:
- Engage more journalists and data scientists
and the developers community.
- Develop a platform that allows citizens
collaboration
- Inspire and help other media and
organizations to open data for Argentina and
spread the word
