[ddj] Autonomous Government Organization Chart

Tue Apr 30 08:53:36 UTC 2013

Very interesting work!

It's good to see that there are people working with open data in the Spanish State.

Duarte Romero Varela
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El 29 Apr 2013, a las 18:28, Conchita Catalan <ccgbcn at gmail.com> escribió:

> Hello, 
> Last weekend @mvtango, @sejoska and me teamed up at the Barcelona Big Data Week hackaton to explore the structure of our Catalan autonomous government body, la Generalitat de Catalunya.
> 
> We had 3 sources of information:
> a website you can surf to find all the institutions that are part of that structure, but you can only access one at a time
> a pdf file
> an xml file from their opendata portal which hadn't been properly indexed so we didn't know it existed until somebody tipped us off
> 
> Scraping was taking too long, so we used the xml file, with more than  7000 registers to visualize just the first two hierarchy levels, Although we realized part of the information was wrong, we decided to use this file because this was the info they had made available. 
> 
> Here is the story and the visualization in Catalan
> http://barcelonalittleshell.blogspot.com.es/2013/04/organigrama-de-la-generalitat-obert.html
> 
> and in English
> http://m.virtel.de/2013/04/exploring-the-data-maze-of-bureaucracy-in-catalunya/
> 
> We plan to go on working on this file. There will be lots of stories, so thank you for spreading the word. If any media is interested, here we are :)
> 
> Thanks for reading, greetings and opendata!
> Concha Catalan (@conchacatalan)
> -- 
> Visita mi blog: http://barcelonalittleshell.blogspot.com.es/
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