The end of the 2015, and the beginning of 2016 becomes a hard work time here at La Nación, for this special event was required a full time dedication for about 3 months, but I enjoyed a lot.
With the Data Team, we create a tool for citizens that will gives them a chance to know more about the 605 candidates for mayors in all the Costa Rican territory. Segmented by province, the citizens can easily find their candidates, which in many cases , are completely unknown by his own voters, also this tool has the candidates complaints, money penalties or debts to social security, if there is some. http://goo.gl/6ZNVdp
But, there it was just a part of the planed work, all this data has tons of interesting points, ways to be visualized, and those were the deliveries of parallel information, every day… Here some of these pieces:
All the pieces goes to different publications, embedded in the reportage of the day, a few days after the elections day we released this special site [ http://bit.ly/1PMvuGG ] to join all this small pieces of the elections data.
When the elections day finally arrives, we change the attention to this other special production of live data visualization [ http://bit.ly/1Xg6A1A ] all the regional divisions was have the results just an hour after the voting centers closed his doors, updated in realtime.
Marco Hernandez 