[open-economics] About Argentina and Openeconomics

Tue Feb 3 15:31:24 UTC 2015

Hi Alejandro,
Hi Paul,

I took a look at your article. It is definitely very interesting and
supportive of our cause. Don't take my comments as negative criticism, but
instead try to see them as a constructive critic. I didn't do much of a
spell check because my English is not perfect either. My focus was on the
content of the article. I am expecting your intention to develop great
things for Argentina with this group (and with help from all others). I can
help you meeting the right people, if you are interested.

Open Economics (and OK) focus is to increase the debate quality and
challenge the status quo and standards, providing scientific explanations
for their inputs. Therefore, we cannot publish any personal/opinion
articles. You raised very interesting and valid points and I am willing to
post it if the content of the article is more focused in showing *why* open
data is important to the development of a country. In that sense, if you
are willing to rephrase some of your paragraphs, I think it would be
perfect.
Most of my "Unnecessary" comments are actually aimed to those bits that you
introduced your own opinion. As explained before, we cannot publish such
and I hope you understand. You may be 200% correct, but they are still
personal opinions. We can't take parties or opinions, since one of our
principles is independence from all interested parties.

One more thing: Avoid You're, isn't and other similar abbreviations. Formal
English requires one to write it completely. Please replace all
abbreviations you wrote with its full version (You're = You are; it's = it
is; and so on).

Thank you for sharing!

2015-02-03 14:51 GMT+00:00 alejandro baranek <alejandrobaranek at gmail.com>:

> Hello Gustavo and Paul:
>
> I have already gave you access to the document. If there are more
> interested, please let me now.
>
> In the piece I include 2 graphics that it's maybe too much updated. I will
> ask if can I get an updated version of the first one.
> I will update the version of the second one.
>
> Thanks to you!
>
> Best, Alejandro.
>
>
> 2015-02-03 7:33 GMT-03:00 Gustavo Silva <gustavosantaremsilva at gmail.com>:
>
> Hi Alejandro and Paul,
>>
>> First of all, thank you for bringing your article to discussion and for
>> your interest to get it published in our blog. Also, sorry for not being
>> able to do so before.
>>
>> Even though I do not have access to the blog (yet!), I will ask Paul to
>> hand over a hand to you on the body text and I am going to ask you to mail
>> the article whenever you two have something ready. How does that sound?
>>
>> Thank you for your collaboration!
>>
>> 2015-02-03 8:26 GMT+00:00 Paul King <paul.kinguk at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>  alejandro baranek
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>>
>> --
>> Best Regards / Obrigado e com os melhores cumprimentos,
>> Gustavo
>>
>>
>
>
> --
>  alejandro baranek
> @ken4rab <https://twitter.com/ken4rab>
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Best Regards / Obrigado e com os melhores cumprimentos,
Gustavo
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