Re: [datameet] Looking for PMGSY core road network shp or kml/kmz

2018-08-13 Thread Naveen Francis
PMGSY-Geospatial Rural Road Information System http://www.pmgsy-grris.nic.in/ On Tuesday, 14 August 2018 10:32:45 UTC+5:30, Manvendra Singh wrote: > > You may also get in touch with Prof Shilpa Agarwal at ISB. She has a paper > on PMGSY. > > Cheers > > On Tue 14 Aug, 2018, 4:36 AM GALEN PATRICK

Re: [datameet] Extracting NSSO data

2018-08-13 Thread Chandrasekhar S.
Greetings! If you purchased data from NSSO it comes with a program (nesstar) that extracts the data for you. Use this program and it will extract to whichever format you would like including STATA. Hope this helps. Chandrasekhar On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 10:59 PM, Tarun Kateja wrote: > Hi

Re: [datameet] Looking for PMGSY core road network shp or kml/kmz

2018-08-13 Thread Manvendra Singh
You may also get in touch with Prof Shilpa Agarwal at ISB. She has a paper on PMGSY. Cheers On Tue 14 Aug, 2018, 4:36 AM GALEN PATRICK MURRAY, wrote: > Hi Rick, > > Have you tried reaching out to Nisith Prakash? I know he used some PMSGY > data (not exactly what you're looking for) but more

Re: [datameet] Phonetic Similarity

2018-08-13 Thread Venkata Pingali
Soundex is not enough. We went through metaphone and double-metaphone as well. The last showed the best performance when combined with simple ways to reduce the search space (e.g., names that start with the same alphabet). But it still had too many false positives and negatives. We ended up using

Re: [datameet] Found a bigger directory of India - Villages

2018-08-13 Thread Nikhil VJ
Wow this is great, thanks for sharing this Naraina! I'm copy-pasting a transpose of the header row from the villages master so that we can see what the metadata is like. Next 2 columns are example rows. "*RevenueVillagecode*" column is the primary key in this dataset. Is this the census code,

[datameet] Phonetic Similarity

2018-08-13 Thread Pradeep Bhatt
Hi All, What is the best way to know if two words are phonetically similar e.g *Some similar *words Pradeep - Pradip Thakkkar - Thakkar Rathod - Rathor Swetha - Sweta bhen - ben Sumandev - Sumandeb *Non - Similar* Ramesh - Rajesh This is needed for spelling mistakes introduced when

Re: [datameet] Looking for PMGSY core road network shp or kml/kmz

2018-08-13 Thread GALEN PATRICK MURRAY
Hi Rick, Have you tried reaching out to Nisith Prakash? I know he used some PMSGY data (not exactly what you're looking for) but more importantly I believe he might have some connections higher up in the Bihar government. Good Luck! On Monday, August 3, 2015 at 11:43:03 PM UTC+5:30, Rick

Re: [datameet] Extracting NSSO data

2018-08-13 Thread GALEN PATRICK MURRAY
Hi Tarun, Sachin is correct you use the layout file to identify which position in the string of characters correspond to which variables. Even though I'm an R user I think this extraction is more easily done in STATA. I've attached my STATA code for the 68th round extraction Since the NSSO

[datameet] Found a bigger directory of India - Villages

2018-08-13 Thread Naraina aka Dilip Damle
Hello, In the process of trying to combine and study the other sources of a comprehensive directory of Indian villages I stumbled in to this. https://www.dbtdacfw.gov.in/ On this website go to DOWNLOAD _ MASTERS and you can directly download A masyer at every level from State to Village.