[open-economics] About Argentina and Openeconomics

Tue Feb 3 08:26:26 UTC 2015

Hi, I'm Paul from the UK. I'm and actuary, beekeeper, and rather amateur
data scientist. I'm not sure which group I'm most able to contribute yet -
I was hoping to lurk for a while! But Alejandro I would be happy to read
your article and try to improve the English if it would help.

Paul

On 2 February 2015 at 23:54, alejandro baranek <alejandrobaranek at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello All!
>
> I'm Alejandro, form Argentina. I´m not an economist, but a computer
> scientist with a wide experience in economic analytics.
> I don't know if you are aware, but in Argentina the official statistics
> are manipulated, specially the CPI an derivated (Poverty index measured by
> incomes, real wages, real rate of change) but every official statistics is
> under suspect. In Jan-29 we had the 8th year conmemoration.
> Many people are putting a lot of effort for the manipulation to stop, but
> it didn't worked yet. It's a pretty big problem for us.
>
> I wrote a piece for openeconomics blog but they asked me to shorten the
> text and make some corrections. Maybe someone/s want to help me to correct
> the text (my english skills are not enoughfor what I want to say, I think)
> or simply get a read for understanding what is happening here from a first
> hand source (I was a computer programmer when the political interference
> started, got fired, etc.). I think we need an openeconomics approach
> because, there are a lot of alternative estimations of each macroeconomics
> variable of interest and is very hard to get consensus with all the
> interested views of the economy. I think is a good place for develop the
> concepts of OE.
>
> I'm actually working in an R package for deploying compbound economics
> indicator, based on on line sources, for the dates you need. So you have a
> recipe, the source Indicators and can reproduce every (simple enough)
> compbound indicators, with the exact sources you are using. Everything can
> be analyzed and changed. I will write to the group again when a first
> version is able to be used.
>
> Best regards, Alejandro.
>
>
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