Re: [datameet] The State of FOSS in India | Report Launch | 12th-15th Janurary 2021

[Anivar Aravind]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 4:47 PM gggod...@gmail.com 
wrote:

> Please access report and relevant sources at: https://state-of-foss.in/
>
>
As I see you have provided Webservers in India and their Software as
source  https://trends.builtwith.com/web-server/country/India
India's Internet = Data localized Internet?

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[datameet] Latest Shape File of Districts

[Gurpreet Singh]

Dear All

Happy Makar Sakranti.

I have been struggling to match the names of districts in an old shapefile
and the latest data of CMIE to make a table joint. As many names of
districts have changed, it will be much help if anyone can share the latest
district's shapefile with the latest names.

It will be much help.


*Gurpreet Singh*

Doctoral Student - Food and Agribusiness
Indian Institute of Management- Ahmedabad
M.A. Rural Development, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
B.Sc. Agriculture, G.B.P.U.A., Pantnagar
M: +91-8141850726
skype: gurpreetinbox1



“Stretching his hand out to catch the stars, he forgets the flowers at his
feet” ~ Jeremy Bentham

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[datameet] Zombie Tracker launch | 66A data platform | e-Courts

[Apoorv Anand]

 
Hello!

We hope you're doing well. Over the past year, IFF 
 and CivicDataLab  
have been collaborating on a project called *Zombie Tracker*. This project 
platform will map all the instances in which Section 66A of the IT Act has 
been invoked despite being deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of 
India in Shreya Singhal v Union of India 
.

We're excited to inform you that the wait is finally over and we're 
launching *Zombie Tracker* on *15th January*! To support the launch, we are 
hosting an event on the *15th at 4 PM* to formally introduce the website to 
everyone. The event is aptly titled *Section 66A: On the Zombie trail 
.*
 
We will explore the history of 66A, how it has impacted those who were 
unlawfully charged under it, and a conversation with experts to understand 
where we stand now.

Please register here 

 
for the event and we will reach out to you with further details.  See you 
soon! 

Warm Regards,
Apoorv Anand
On behalf of Team CivicDataLab 

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Re: [datameet] What is Covid RT-PCR test's Ct (Cycle Threshold) limit in India?

[Chandrasekhar S.]

CT value is not a reliable indicator. Earlier labs used to report CT value
by default but now they do not - but one can ask for the CT value.
https://www.icmr.gov.in/pdf/covid/techdoc/Advisory_on_correlation_of_COVID_severity_with_Ct_values.pdf

On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 11:18 AM Nikhil VJ  wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I wanted to know if the Indian government or related agencies have set any
> standard limit in a crucial setting in the Covid tests called "Cycle
> Threshold".
>
> Are the folks collecting stats on covid cases - having any data on cycle
> values for those cases?
>
> Have you or someone you know been diagnosed as a Covid-19 case? What was
> the cycle value in your test result? Does the lab that did the test share
> this data?
>
> Sharing an article and some excerpts from it:
>
>
> https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/experts-us-covid-19-positivity-rate-high-due-to-too-sensitive-tests/ar-BB18wE8B
> Experts: US COVID-19 positivity rate high due to 'too sensitive' tests
>
> "With a cutoff of 35, about half of those tests would no longer qualify as
> positive. About 70 percent would no longer be judged positive if the cycles
> were limited to 30.
> In Massachusetts, from 85 to 90 percent of people who tested positive in
> July with a cycle threshold of 40 would have been considered negative if
> the threshold were 30 cycles, Mina said. "
> "The Food and Drug Administration said that it does not specify the cycle
> threshold ranges used to determine who is positive and 'commercial
> manufacturers and laboratories set their own.'"
> "The CDC said its own calculations suggest its extremely hard to detect a
> live virus in a sample above a threshold of 33 cycles. "
>
>
> This was one - there's many more if I search for "RT-PCR test cycle
> threshold value covid" on duckduckgo. (tip: google search is broken when it
> comes to anything controversial. Proverbial case of overprotective mother
> suffocating the child in the quest to protect it. Take the same query and
> run it in Bing, Duckduckgo etc also.)
>
> Looking into this I'm seeing an analogy with vectorizing raster satellite
> imagery : Your software can easily fill the whole thing up with false
> positives, or can produce no result at all. Lot of fine tuning is required
> to get the "perfect setting" that minimizes the false positives and false
> negatives, and you often never reach a perfect setting that didn't have any
> mistakes. It's not a hard yes/no thing. You invariably need manual
> intervention (and even with AI interventions we're seeing problems), and it
> frustrates the hell out of people who assumed this technology thing is a
> silver bullet.
>
> Inviting people with better knowledge on this topic to correct me: My
> understanding is that there is an exponential (maybe doubling, maybe some
> other factor) change from one Ct value to the other. To go from 33 to 40,
> would be.. well, non-trivial.
>
> So one set of data needed is : What are the Ct limits being used in
> current testing? Is there a single value standardized by the government? If
> there is variation, then who decides?
>
> Another set of data that can be just as useful : Have these Ct limits been
> changed since the pandemic began almost a year ago? How have they changed,
> and is there any co-relation between that and the Covid+ case counts? Is it
> possible to "explode" / "reign in" a pandemic by merely altering this
> setting without any ground level realities changing? If yes, then why is
> talk about it missing from the mainstream discourse?
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Nikhil VJ
> https://nikhilvj.co.in
>
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[datameet] Roads in every city

[Siddhant N]

https://anvaka.github.io/city-roads/

its OSM, still terrific treatment!

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