Opportunities, challenges, and power of media and information
Ramos
1. When DATA is your moving target
Angélica Peralta Ramos
Multimedia Development Manager – Data Project Leader
@momiperalta
When DATA is your moving target
Angélica Peralta Ramos
Multimedia Development Manager – Data Project Leader
@momiperalta
2. About LA NACION
Based in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Sunday print circulation: + 360.000
Lanacion.com unique visitors/month: + 8MM
9 magazine titles
Impremedia (90%): US hisp. leading publishing company
8. Argentina Judicial System Open
Government IniciativeCity of Buenos Aires Open Data Portal
HOPE!
Argentina Judicial System Open
Government IniciativeCity of Buenos Aires Open Data Portal
INDEC Banco Mundial DATA portal
9. In LA NACION
No programmers in the newsroom!
But….team willing to learn.
We decided to FOCUS ON DATA …
Start small
Friend our IT and BI departments (from the very first minute!)
Learn tools for non programmers: Tableau Public , Excel for
Databases, Qlikview
“BUILD once USE many” aproach
No programmers in the newsroom!
But….team willing to learn.
We decided to FOCUS ON DATA …
Start small
Friend our IT and BI departments (from the very first minute!)
Learn tools for non programmers: Tableau Public , Excel for
Databases, Qlikview
“BUILD once USE many” aproach
11. Argentina´s inflation data?
In 2007, the government intervened Indec (our National Statistics
Institute)
Since then Indec has reported an annual inflation rate below 11%
Economists and provincial governments started reporting higher
inflation rates (23-30%)
In March 2011 argentina fined firms over inflation data (u$ 125.000)
These firms teamed up with opposition in Congress and together
they release another monthly inflation rate
In 2007, the government intervened Indec (our National Statistics
Institute)
Since then Indec has reported an annual inflation rate below 11%
Economists and provincial governments started reporting higher
inflation rates (23-30%)
In March 2011 argentina fined firms over inflation data (u$ 125.000)
These firms teamed up with opposition in Congress and together
they release another monthly inflation rate
15. Consumers Association
Price Index Dataset
José Crettaz, Metro Editor
Contacted source ADELCO: Association of Consumers
Monitors prices since 2002 of 28 supermarket products
in two price categories
We developed a customized scraper
Converted monthly press release into a dataset
José Crettaz, Metro Editor
Contacted source ADELCO: Association of Consumers
Monitors prices since 2002 of 28 supermarket products
in two price categories
We developed a customized scraper
Converted monthly press release into a dataset
24. Bus Subsidies Case quick facts:
Diego Cabot, Financial Section Editor
more than 400 PDF monthly payments for 1,300 Bus companies, in
3 categories
more than 10,000 bus vehicle plates used to reverse decoding
vehicle ages and fleet ages
customized scraper developed to keep data updated
more than 235,000 records
found that PDFs were modified backwards , sometimes overwritten
so developed “PDF Spy” that monitors PDFs based in Boston´s
hackaton idea
Diego Cabot, Financial Section Editor
more than 400 PDF monthly payments for 1,300 Bus companies, in
3 categories
more than 10,000 bus vehicle plates used to reverse decoding
vehicle ages and fleet ages
customized scraper developed to keep data updated
more than 235,000 records
found that PDFs were modified backwards , sometimes overwritten
so developed “PDF Spy” that monitors PDFs based in Boston´s
hackaton idea
