[datameet] [OT] OLPC - XO Laptop

2013-02-05 Thread Venkatraman S
During my recent visit to the Bay Area, i got a chance to attend an OLPC meet. I have got an XO laptop with me, for the time being, that i need to forward to a project in a remote village. Drop me a message if anyone is interested in checking it out. Regards, Venkat https://twitter.com/venkasub

Re: [datameet] MP/MLA Shapes

2013-02-05 Thread Gautam John
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Samuel Rajkumar wrote: > Who's getting me beer? On me. :) > MP Shape Files are here: These are from http://eci.nic.in/GisLayers/gis_layers.asp (Sadly, they have taken it down.) -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You recei

Re: [datameet] MP/MLA Shapes

2013-02-05 Thread Samuel Rajkumar
Who's getting me beer? MP Shape Files are here: http://www.glidingsquirrel.in/RNandini/Datathon_files/India_PC.zip Some other datasets: http://www.glidingsquirrel.in/RNandini/Datathon.html Nisha: these were the datasets we used at the datathon in IISc. Cheers, On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 5:22 PM,

[datameet] BayesiaLab Launch Event in Bangalore, February 18, 2013

2013-02-05 Thread Kavita Arora
Not sure if you all have heard that this is happening in Bangalore on Feb 18th: BayesiaLab Launch Event in Bangalore, February 18, 2013 http://bayesia.us/index.php/events/177-baysialabbangalore some of you might be interested in attending - registration is free. -- For more details about this l

Re: [datameet] MP/MLA Shapes

2013-02-05 Thread Laina Emmanuel
The ways of Government officials and their websites are mysterious. On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Gautam John wrote: > On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Laina Emmanuel > wrote: > > Maybe we can request data.gov.in folks to get this from the Election >> Commission / Delimitation Commission and

Re: [datameet] MP/MLA Shapes

2013-02-05 Thread Gautam John
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Laina Emmanuel wrote: Maybe we can request data.gov.in folks to get this from the Election > Commission / Delimitation Commission and put it on their website? > The funny thing is that the ECI used to have it on their website. Dunno why they took it down. -- For

Re: [datameet] MP/MLA Shapes

2013-02-05 Thread Laina Emmanuel
Maybe we can request data.gov.in folks to get this from the Election Commission / Delimitation Commission and put it on their website? If we can show them the use of such data (like an interesting app or visual) we can make a case for it. On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Gautam John wrote: > Bu