Brasil.IO: Liberating Public Data with Python
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Presents Brasil.IO, an open-source community project that uses Python scripts to scrape, convert, clean and structure Brazilian public datasets, then publishes them for download, via a filtered web interface and an API. Explains the technical pipeline and tooling (scrapers, data cleaning, databases and SQL) used to make hard-to-access public data usable for journalists, researchers and activists.
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