[datameet] Covering Indian Elections 2014

2014-05-19 Thread Thejesh GN
- This elections produced lot of news online and on social media - I tried cover (gather and filter) the most important news items - You can see it on a timeline at thejeshgn.com/indiavotes2014 - There are about 200+ stories all together - As usual if you think I have missed any you can add it ht

[datameet] logo contest last day!

2014-05-19 Thread Nisha Thompson
Please go vote on this thread! https://groups.google.com/d/topic/datameet/bNbwXCvMcP8/discussion Nisha -- Nisha Thompson DataMeet.org ni...@datameet.org skype: nishaqt mobile: 962-061-2245 -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://

Re: [datameet] Logo Contest Voting!

2014-05-19 Thread Raman Chima
6 and then 2. On 18 May 2014 18:12, Vijayaraghavan R wrote: > I'll go for 6 and 8. > > I don't understand why one needs a bar graph in the logo. The words 'data' > and 'meet' are enough to set the context. I think the logo should be easy > to understand. We are here to un-complicate data, why t

Re: [datameet] Logo Contest Voting!

2014-05-19 Thread Saket Bisani
8 On May 15, 2014 11:34 AM, "Nisha Thompson" wrote: > Hey Everyone! > > Before March's Open Data Camp we wanted a DataMeet logo and had asked > people to contribute some design ideas. > > We were expecting maybe 1 or 2 ideas that we would adapt. But were > overwhelmed by how awesome everyone on

[datameet] Updates to the Discussion Guidelines

2014-05-19 Thread Nisha Thompson
Hey All, I want to say WELCOME to the new people! And let everyone know that there has been some updates to the discussion guidelines. http://datameet.org/discussions/ New Guidelines: No Job Listings Events have to have a data angle All first posts have to be approved by the moderator to scan

[datameet] Re: Updates to the Discussion Guidelines

2014-05-19 Thread Dilip Damle
HI Nisha, Since this is all about DATA You could add guidelines about correct and recommended procedure to share Data files attaching / Storing files to a particular location. Since this group is on Google you may even have a public Google drive to dump all Casual / for check / for comments d

[datameet] Re: Covering Indian Elections 2014

2014-05-19 Thread rajesh
Wow Thej! This is great curation. Some links to ANI are not working. You might consider adding this (or something like this) as postcript: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/lok-sabha-elections-2014/news/BJPs-31-lowest-vote-share-of-any-party-to-win-majority/articleshow/35315930.cms On Mon

Re: [datameet] Digest for datameet@googlegroups.com - 17 updates in 10 topics

2014-05-19 Thread tejaspande
I love logo no.6. Sent from Windows Mail From: datameet@googlegroups.com Sent: ‎Tuesday‎, ‎20‎ ‎May‎ ‎2014 ‎05‎:‎59 To: Digest recipients Today's topic summary Group: http://groups.google.com/group/datameet/topics Updates to the Discussion Guidelines [1 Update] Logo Contest Voti

Re: [datameet] Re: Updates to the Discussion Guidelines

2014-05-19 Thread Venkatraman S
Not allowing replies to Digests and not doing Votes on mailing lists would let me sleep in the night :) -V -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[datameet] Re: Indian Elections 2014 ECI Datasets

2014-05-19 Thread Rukmini S
Thanks v much for this Pratap. How should I credit it if I use it? Best, Rukmini On Friday, May 16, 2014 11:14:43 PM UTC+5:30, Pratap Vardhan wrote: > > Hi All, > > First-cut data scrapped from http://eciresults.nic.in/ hosted at > https://github.com/pratapvardhan/Elections-India-2014 > > Do pla

Re: [datameet] Re: Updates to the Discussion Guidelines

2014-05-19 Thread Sanjay Bhangar
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Venkatraman S wrote: > Not allowing replies to Digests and not doing Votes on mailing lists would > let me sleep in the night :) > Everyone who thinks there should or should not be voting on the mailing list, please reply to this thread with a +1 or -1. (JOKING!

[datameet] Re: Covering Indian Elections 2014

2014-05-19 Thread Nikunj Parikh
Hi Thejesh, Great collection, wanted to know how did you collect these stories? did you scrape it? It will be interesting to crawls tweets as well but I am not sure if there is a robust way to do this. I have tried doing it using R & Twitter Rest API in past but found it to be not very reliab