Empowering Data Driven Journalism in Macedonia

Adriana  Mijushkovikj; Visar Shehu

doi:10.1145/2955129.2955187

Empowering Data Driven Journalism in Macedonia

Adriana Mijushkovikj
, Visar Shehu^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The need for independent media and powerful media is a must for any country aspiring to build upon values of a democratic society. Unfortunately, even though Macedonia has often been shaken by huge corruption scandals the general public is often ill informed or misguided by the media. This paper presents our efforts to create tools that will aid investigative journalists to better collect, analyze and present data to their audience. For this purpose a system that collects and organizes public procurement data in Macedonia has been generated. Furthermore, the developed system applies data mining algorithms against the datasets with the purpose of discovering trends, hidden information, relations between entities and anomalies.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	MISNC, SI, DS 2016
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the The 3rd Multidisciplinary International Social Networks Conference on SocialInformatics 2016, Data Science 2016
Publisher	ACM Publishing
Pages	1-6
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-4129-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2955129.2955187
Publication status	Published - 15 Aug 2016
Externally published	Yes
Event	3rd Multidisciplinary International Social Networks Conference on SocialInformatics, Data Science 2016 - Union, United States Duration: 15 Aug 2016 → 17 Aug 2016 Conference number: 3

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Conference	3rd Multidisciplinary International Social Networks Conference on SocialInformatics, Data Science 2016
Abbreviated title	Data Science 2016
Country/Territory	United States
City	Union
Period	15/08/16 → 17/08/16

UN SDGs

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SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Mijushkovikj, A & Shehu, V 2016, Empowering Data Driven Journalism in Macedonia. in MISNC, SI, DS 2016: Proceedings of the The 3rd Multidisciplinary International Social Networks Conference on SocialInformatics 2016, Data Science 2016. ACM Publishing, pp. 1-6, 3rd Multidisciplinary International Social Networks Conference on SocialInformatics, Data Science 2016, Union, New Jersey, United States, 15/08/16. https://doi.org/10.1145/2955129.2955187

Empowering Data Driven Journalism in Macedonia. / Mijushkovikj, Adriana ; Shehu, Visar.
MISNC, SI, DS 2016: Proceedings of the The 3rd Multidisciplinary International Social Networks Conference on SocialInformatics 2016, Data Science 2016. ACM Publishing, 2016. p. 1-6.

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