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Visualizing Relationships: Journalistic Problems in A Digital Age
Visualizing Relationships: Journalistic Problems in A Digital Age
Summary
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Introduction The problem we are solving Involved issues Problems we found The Challenge
The problem
1976 A dictatorship started in Argentina. 30,000 persons were kidnapped and disappeared. 1985 First trials happened in Argentina. They judged the bad guys but we have to stop. 2003 Justice start judging the bad guys again. 2012 Large amount of judicial documents. No one can read all of them
Involved issues
Semantic Analytics Ontology Data Mining Social Network Analysis Visualizations
First approach
Read all the documents Software solution based on regular expressions Ruby, Padrino and MySQL database
def self.extract_plain_text(path) basename = File.basename(path).split('.')[0..-2].join('.') tmp_dir = Dir.tmpdir Docsplit.extract_text(path, :output => tmp_dir, :ocr => false) text = File.open(File.join(tmp_dir, "#{basename}.txt")).read self.clean_text(text) end