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Web scrapping as a citizen's tool for transparency

hmeleiro included in projects
 2018-06-05  132 words   One minute 

Here you can find a web scraper of the portal de contratación de la Comunidad de Madrid and here a dataset with data of more than 1 million contracts of the Comunidad de Madrid. The data were used by eldiario.es and El Confidencial for the following articles on public procurement in the Madrid Region:

The Community of Madrid spent 20 times more on minor contracts than the City Council in 2017

Cifuentes’ government opaquely awarded hundreds of millions of euros to pharmaceutical companies between 2015 and 2017

How the Community of Madrid abuses micro-contracts by hand: 1 million in two years

Why you need a robot to know the hand-picked contracts of the Community of Madrid

Cifuentes chopped up millions of euros in school cleaning contracts after the courts annulled the tender

Updated on 2018-06-05
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