Fighting Corruption in Brazil with Machine Learning
I was a bit disappointed by this because it feels more like people trying to get press and make a name for themselves than an actual serious endeavor at digging through open government data with ML. The first thing you see in the README is links to numerous social media profiles, followed by a Kickstarter link and a BTC address. Zero technical info. Looking into the Kickstarter (well, Catarse, the Brazilian copycat), apparently there&#x27;s a young company behind this - &quot;Data Science Brigade&quot;. So I guess this is partly a publicity stunt.<p>I&#x27;m sorry, but if you guys are serious about building this <i>open</i> you should make it entirely technical and keep any press&#x2F;social media&#x2F;financial bullshit out of it. Entirely separated. In addition, if the project is sponsored by a company, make that clear in a notice somewhere. It just doesn&#x27;t feel honest to do it any other way. I&#x27;m not going to contribute with time or money to a project that claims to be about &quot;fighting corruption&quot; but might have all sorts of unknown interests behind it. I&#x27;d be pleased to contribute otherwise.