Poderopedia
| With Poderopedia, you can explore stories and visualize the acquaintances of the elite | ||
| Home page | http://www.poderopedia.org/ | |
| Approach | Poderopedia tracks the dynamics of influence between different actors such as politicians and corporate entities by documenting, archiving, visualizing relationships within the elite power system in Chile, Venezuela and Colombia, | |
| Phase | Beta version | |
| Tags | Chile, Colombia, Venezuela, power systems, network viz, and popolo | |
| Practices | Plan | |
| Project Start Date | 2011 |
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| Launch Date | 2012 |
| Most Recent Update | 2015 |
| Update Frequency | true |
| Thematic Focus | Politics |
| Issue addressed | Shadow influence |
| Geographic Focus | Chile, Colombia, Venezuela |
Experience
How does a user interact with and navigate the project?
| Narrative | true |
|---|---|
| Query | true |
| Network Visualisation | true |
Description
Summary of the project and its approach
| Maps out politicians, business and others in Chile, and other countries of LATAM. | |
| Approach (How?) | Poderopedia tracks the dynamics of influence between different actors such as politicians and corporate entities by documenting, archiving, visualizing relationships within the elite power system in Chile, Venezuela and Colombia, |
| Language | Spanish |
| Commissioner | Knight Foundation, Start Up Chile, ICFJ |
| Publisher | Poderopedia |
Impact
Indicators of reach and impact of the project.
Target Audience : Online Audience Reached : Large Network Twitter : (9578 followers) Publisher's Twitter Followers : Online Rank : Google: 5 Alexa: 239935 OSE Domain Authority Rank: 42/100 Marketing Grader Rank: 42/100 () Online Rank (Publisher) : Google: Alexa: News Source : Medium Offline Audience Reached : International Outcome : Last updated : Oct 8, 2015 Attempts against the project : /Technology
What tools and code were used to create the project?
Tech Best Practices: : Built on top of existing building blocks : Design and Publication of a Data Vocabulary : Code Repository : https://github.com/poderopedia : Tool : Document Cloud : Fuseki : Solr : Database : MySql : PostgresSQL Frontend : Web2py : d3.js : : Python : Coffescript Backend : : : : Python : Data Format : RDF : Data Standard : RDF Technical Documentation URL : https://github.com/poderopedia/Documentation : https://github.com/poderopedia/PoderVocabulary Technical Architecture Documentation : Schema Documentation : http://dev.poderopedia.com/documentation/index Design Documentation : API Documentation : http://api.poderopedia.org/Data Sources
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Team size and expertise
Team Size : Large Team Experience : Research : Dedicated Data Science : None Engineering : Dedicated Design : SomeProject Methodology
What strategies were in place for managing the project?
Project Methodology : Traditional Open Source : true Open Data : false Budget : Medium Project Contracting : Iterative Risk Planning : No planning Sustainability Planning : UpdatedDocumented Practices
Documentation about project practices
Practices
How projects handle different aspects of data management
Data Modeling : Documents Ethical Collection : No guidelines Ethical Storage : Data Collection : Trained Collectors Data Collection : Data Verification : Corroborated Data Cleaning : Data Analysis : Classification / Tagging / Categories / Linking Data Description : Basic Data Licensing : Partial Ethical Publishing : Cited Sources Ethical Publishing : Data Publishing Mode : Scrapable