Hey Everyone, At the Meetup on Tuesday we discussed the following:
*Data.Gov.In* The team at NIC's Data.gov.in has been putting up a few datasets. Now they have around 20. There are a lot of community functions on the site. As a data-centric community we really should be finding ways to give feedback and demand datasets. I would like share the following google doc with the list of data sets we have been requesting. I will be officially requesting the government related ones on the request data forum. We also have priority data we would like Pincodes being the biggest demand and shapefiles being the next more asked for dataset. So please vote for those sets here: Also would anyone be interested in participating in some of their forums. Specifically one about requesting data and discussing formats, standardization, and data quality. *India Water Portal Data Project* I presented the work I'm doing at India Water Portal The India Water Portal Data Project is looking at water data in India in a systematic way the hopes to see what data is out there, who collects it, what are the gaps, and how you can use data to build quality and sustainable water projects and tell a more realistic story about the state of water in India. So we are looking at data from government, NGOs, and academics have to try to get an idea of how to answer two big questions. How much water do we have? How much water do we need? *How much do we have?* India's water cycle is constricted to surface water which depends heavily on the three months of monsoon rains, and groundwater. So data around rain, reservoir levels, surface water, and groundwater levels are essential to understand the supply we are working with. This data is scattered, collected by many different agencies, and also is of questionable quality. *How much do we need?* Demand for water is harder to understand. Metering of water use is not widely used and not required by law. Real numbers of actual use are not available but can be deduced from other proxy factors like energy use (for pumps) and what kind of crops are grown. The discussion then moved to the urban story of water. How you can check for leaks and get demand information from apt administrators and houses that use tankers. One of the projects discussed was forming a home weather station network. India Water Portal is in the process of getting a weather station to live stream data in Bangalore. Several people also want to make cheaper versions of a weather station for homes that will also collect data. This network could be a source of data that is more granular and there for more useful for projects like rainwater harvesting. If you are interested in working on the Weather network in Bangalore please let me know. I can connect you to Pavan and Sam Rajkumar. Nisha -- Nisha Thompson Mobile: 962-061-2245 -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
