Reinaldo Chaves is a freelance journalist based in São Paulo - SP, Brasil. - http://br.linkedin.com/in/reinaldochaves Extensive experience in data journalism and data science for different organizations and transparency and open data projects for journalists and civil society. I coordinate data journalism and data science projects on the Judiciary, on evidence-based investigations. In the last few months I have also started studying machine learning and Artificial Intelligence applied to journalism. Knowledge and experience in journalism driven data: data scraping, Tableau, Open Refine, based organization data, OSINT, commands and syntax Python and R languages
An article in data journalism that analyzed hundreds of parliamentary amendments on labor reform in Brazil. It was discovered that 34% of the amendments were written by lobbyists
There is a country where citizens can follow the lobbying done on parliamentarians online. In another, you can access public spending by federal employees or request information on the salaries of judges and parliamentarians. Both countries are in Latin America - viable initiatives because of open data policies and access to information. The problem is that these benefits only accrue to a few people out of the region’s 569 million.
Article about the low number of police inquiries in Brazil. Interviews with Supreme Court justices and prosecutors
Interview with the director of the Council for Financial Activities Control, the Brazilian agency that investigates financial fraud
Article on digital TV signal implementation in Brazil and what it will mean in terms of business opportunities
Article about entrepreneurs operating in the geek business and make sales using blogging techniques and videos