[ddj] Poderopedia open oruce platform released

Tue Jun 25 13:16:40 UTC 2013

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On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Miguel Paz <ohmyblog at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everybody
> We just released @poderopedia platform for making your own crunchbase.
> It`s open source and we would love it if you give a try and see what
> you can do.  All you need to know in this blog post
>
> http://blog.poderopedia.org/post/53689792220/want-to-make-your-own-poderopedia-type-of-project
> Code: https://github.com/poderopedia/plug-and-play-1.0-RC
>
> A few real use examples:
> -NewsStack, an Africa News Challenge Winner, will use it for a
> pan-African investigation by 10 media organizations into the
> continent’s extractive industries.
> -Newsrooms from Europe and Latin America want to use it to make their
> own public searchable databases of entities, reuse their archive to
> develop new information products, provide context to new stories and
> make data visualizations—something like making their own Crunchbase.
>
> Other ideas:
> -Use existing data to make searchable databases and visualizations of
> congresspeople, bills passed, what they own, who funds them, etc.
> -Map lobbyists and who they lobby and for whom
> -Create a NBApedia, Baseballpedia or Soccerpedia. Show data and
> connections about team owners, team managers, players, all their
> stats, salaries and related business
> -Map links between NSA, Prism and Silicon Valley
> -Keep track of foundation grants, projects that received funding, etc.
>
> Bugs, ideas and contributions, please open up an issue
>
> Cheers!
>
> Miguel Paz @poderopedia
>
>
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