[open-economics] About Argentina and Openeconomics

Wed Feb 4 10:14:44 UTC 2015

Hi Alejandro,

I have had a go at editing your article. It was a very interesting read -
thank you.

I have made quite a lot of changes. My intention was to make sure the
English was correct, not to change your writing style and certainly not to
edit the content - so I hope I haven't done that.

I'm not very experienced at editing Google Docs on line, but if it's worked
(I hope) I'm very impressed with it as a method for collaboration.

I made my changes as suggested edits - so you can accept or reject them.

And I just noticed every paragraph in my email starts with "I". I'm not
really so egocentric :-)

Best of luck

Paul

On 3 February 2015 at 15:31, Gustavo Silva <gustavosantaremsilva at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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>
>> qbotics <http://qbotics.tumblr.com/> | surferinvaders
>> <http://surferinvaders.tumblr.com> | algebraic-soundscapes
>> <http://imaginary.org/content/algebraic-soundscapes> | surfer-shuffle
>> <http://imaginary.org/program/surfer-shuffle>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Best Regards / Obrigado e com os melhores cumprimentos,
> Gustavo
>
>
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