Empowering Data Driven Journalism in Macedonia
Visar Shehu, Adriana Mijushkovic, Adrian Besimi · 2016
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.