Freeing Public Data
summary
Brasil.IO is a free-software community that captures, cleans and structures Brazilian public datasets so they can be downloaded or accessed via an API. The project addresses poor data quality and interoperability by providing scripts and processed datasets for journalists and other users, and is already used by Brazilian newsrooms and legal projects.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction to theme
- 2:27What are open data
- 4:12Transparency and social control
- 8:31Journalism case studies
- 14:07Data acquisition challenges
- 19:05Data verification and cleaning
- 21:12Public data accessibility
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