This document outlines a data journalism project called Poderopedia that aims to map the connections between Chile's political and business elite. It details how Poderopedia collects information from public and crowdsourced sources, constructs profiles of individuals that include relationship maps and sources, and visualizes the connections between people, organizations, and companies to increase transparency around who wields power and influence in Chile. The project uses techniques like scraping, custom ontologies, linked data, and triple stores to combine editorial content and hard data about the people and institutions that comprise Chile's "one percent."

2. data journalism project to
map the chilean elite

3. Hey! Let`s check out
President Piñera`s
links?

4. Who`s
this guy?

5. Andrés Navarro
owns a helicopter with Piñera
President`s buddy
businessman
government tech provider
campaign funding for this guy
& studied with Polo Piñera
(the President`s brother)

6. In Universidad Católica

7. like Piñera
and 16 of his 22 ministers

8. only
4 went to Harvard
none to the MIT
:(

9. Verbo Divino:
Piñera`s school
2 ministers
many congressman
& businessman

10. like his cousin
Herman Chadwick
appointed by Piñera as chairman
of the National Television Council

11. (by the way: over the last
35 years there`s been a
Chadwick in every chilean
government)
right wing senator social democrat director The Clinic
former government (chilean The Onion)
official

12. 50% top execs & CEO`s
come from 5 schools
Piñera`s school is in 2 place
3 of 15 richest families studied there
alumni = Chile`s 18,5% GNP
US$ 30 billion
*Forbes 2008

13. Half love this team!

14. So Piñera b ought it
and named this guy
undersecretary
of sports
(they were forced
to sell by public
opinion)
they earned
US$ 9 million

15. Same with LAN

16. and a TV channel

17. where the President`s buddy
was a chairman

18. before Piñera
decided to sell the
airline and tv
station because of
the people`s
pressure

19. Editorial and crowdsourced
database website that shows you
who is who in Chile
Keeps track of the civic, business
and political leaders of Chile
Maps the One Percent`s
connections and shows you how
they are linked to each other

20. human robot data mashup
+

21. Journalist + Users + Custom Ontology + Linked data + RDF + Triple Stores + Scraping
PROFILE
Editorial overview + Hard data sheet of an
entity + Relationship map + Sources/
Footnotes + Related documents

22. Poderopedia`s way
-We filter information from public sources and
crowdsourcing
-Scrape data from open gov and private databases
-Users help us by showing connections and unknown
facts, report mistakes and info that is not updated
-We write newsworthy profiles
-We connect the dots bewteen people, organizations
and companies
-We show you the sources
-Provide you the code and documentation

23. Profile
Relations
Sources
Documents

33. Visualization
of
Relations

40. Dashboard

47. suscribe for updates at
Poderopedia.org
more at @poderopedia
poderopedia.tumblr.com
facebook.com/poderopedia
slideshare.net/poderopedia
github.com/poderopedia
Poderopedia is thankful for the generous support of the