Re: [datameet] UDISE districts

2021-03-28 Thread Gautam John
Hi Thej: > I am trying to make sense of UDISE wrt administrative boundaries. There isn't any linkage - they are completely independent at least when I last checked in 2016. What we did was to collect the lat/long for schools so we could plot them to administrative and electoral boundaries. And in

[datameet] UK-India Tech Partnership (AI & Data in Karnataka) | Innovation Challenge Fund 2020

2020-02-17 Thread Gautam John
Dear All: You might find this of interest. Concept note deadline: 7 April 2020 More info: https://www.events.great.gov.uk/ehome/index.php?eventid=200200559&; The Tech Clusters: Innovation Challenge Fund 2020 will fund innovative research and development projects in Artificial Intelligence / Dat

Re: [datameet] RTI database

2019-07-24 Thread Gautam John
The one I have come across is https://yourti.in/responses/ On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 at 18:00, Yogada Joshi wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Is there any publically accessible source/website that provides a > comprehensive database of all RTIs that have been filed till date ? > > It could be paid/unpaid. > >

Re: [datameet] [group business] I'm leaving India on Jan 4th :(

2017-12-04 Thread Gautam John
Dear Nisha and Thej and Anand: Thank you for all you have done to bring this vibrant community together. Nisha: Bangalore will miss you and good luck for whatever is next. -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- Y

Re: [datameet] School Safety in India

2016-08-15 Thread Gautam John
On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 8:39 PM, Pradeep Bhatt wrote: > We can also use RTI to know from Department of Education what data they > collect from schools. Check out what DISE collects: http://schoolreportcards.in The KLP team uses some of this data and they have an interface for Karnataka for a

Re: [datameet] Pincode boundaries

2016-02-01 Thread Gautam John
On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 1:26 PM, PRAKASH PS wrote: > Is there any source available to get pincode boundaries(.shp or geojson) for > Karnataka state? https://www.mlinfomap.com/Main/indiamaps.html -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting htt

Re: [datameet] Re: Call for submissions: Open Data Art Gallery in Bengaluru [Urgent]

2015-10-16 Thread Gautam John
Did Pratham Books send one? On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Arun Ganesh wrote: > Final reminder for gallery submissions. We have 9 submissions so far and can > still accommodate a few more, so this your chance to see your work in print. > > Share your dropbox link of the print ready A2 PDF match

Re: [datameet] When is the latest DISE data going to be available?

2015-04-21 Thread Gautam John
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Jayadevan P K wrote: > Have a quick question. Do you know when the next DISE data will be > available? > I can find the 2013-14 data on their website. I'm looking for 2014-15. Apparently in a couple of weeks. Prof. Mehta was at ODC and said as much. Till then, t

Re: [datameet] DISE Data on Education

2014-11-11 Thread Gautam John
For all of India? We have for Karnataka. See dise.klp.org.in for more On Wednesday, 12 November 2014, Gautham Ravichander < gauthamravichan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi folks, > > We are trying to access the DISE data from schoolreportcards.in. > Unfortunately the website seems to be down and we ar

Re: [datameet] Re: PIN Code : Village List mapping

2014-10-14 Thread Gautam John
Just read this: http://qz.com/280494/this-startup-has-a-simple-code-to-solve-indias-complex-address-problem/ -- 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

Re: [datameet] database of chief ministers

2014-07-22 Thread Gautam John
Also, http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 9:09 AM, Thejesh GN wrote: > Also dbpedia has great api access to wikipedia in general > > http://wiki.dbpedia.org > > > -- > Thejesh GN ⏚ ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್ > http://thejeshgn.com > GPG ID : 0xBFFC8DD3C06DD6B0 > > On Jul 2

[datameet] NYT Innovation Report

2014-05-20 Thread Gautam John
Worth reading: http://www.scribd.com/doc/224332847/NYT-Innovation-Report-2014 -- 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 Groups "datameet" group. To u

Re: [datameet] Security Issues with the Voter List

2014-05-18 Thread Gautam John
Something I read today: http://www.medianama.com/2014/05/223-modak-marketing-election-voter-india/ -- 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 Groups

Re: [datameet] Logo Contest Voting!

2014-05-14 Thread Gautam John
5 and 6. On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Thejesh GN wrote: > My vote for 2 and 6 > > > > Thej > -- > Thejesh GN ⏚ ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್ > http://thejeshgn.com > GPG ID : 0xBFFC8DD3C06DD6B0 > > > On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Nisha Thompson wrote: >> >> Hey Everyone! >> >> Before March's Open Data

Re: [datameet] Looking for KML file of India's parliamentary constituencies, need it urgently!

2014-04-27 Thread Gautam John
Hi Ravi: The archives of this group should have one. On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Ravi Bajpai wrote: > Hey all, > > I work for Hindustan Times here in Delhi. I am trying to prepare backend > logistics to build an interactive map to be published on our website on the > election counting day.

Re: [datameet] Security Issues with the Voter List

2014-04-10 Thread Gautam John
Leaving aside my earlier comment as perhaps tongue in cheek, the electoral rolls are *meant* to be public. The Registration of Electors Rules, 1960 makes that clear. However, your larger point is well made. Maybe what needs to be done is to *de-centralise* the storage? That fulfils the requirements

Re: [datameet] Security Issues with the Voter List

2014-04-10 Thread Gautam John
Not sure this is a flaw. Maybe it's a feature? :D -- 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 and stop receiving emails from it, send an email

Re: [datameet] Re: Exploring DISE Data for Karnataka

2014-04-03 Thread Gautam John
If anyone is interested, someone from Twitter sent me this link. It has the GPS data points for schools (and more) in Bihar. http://gis.bih.nic.in/GPS/SCH/REPORT/ReportNew.aspx -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are sub

Re: [datameet] Re: Exploring DISE Data for Karnataka

2014-04-02 Thread Gautam John
Hi Jeff: > This is a really nice project, especially in seeing the geographic > distribution of all the schools. Did you geocode the location of schools > yourselves or are the GPS coordinates present in the DISE data itself? I'm > curious because I had previously looked at the DISE for Madhya Pra

Re: [datameet] List of LS-2014 Electoral Candidates

2014-04-02 Thread Gautam John
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Megha Vishwanath wrote: > Can anyone here please help point to the list of all potential candidates > and their office addresses, if that exists? FWIW, I found Karnataka data here: http://www.ceokarnataka.kar.nic.in/SearchContestingCandidate_PC.aspx I'm guessing

Re: [datameet] Exploring DISE Data for Karnataka

2014-04-02 Thread Gautam John
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Nisha Thompson wrote: > Just the profiles and reports make it so much easier to navigate the data. > Though I hope that we can be able to click down into the school information > from district level on the map in the later versions. The report it would But you ca

Re: [datameet] Exploring DISE Data for Karnataka

2014-04-01 Thread Gautam John
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 11:28 PM, Anand Chitipothu wrote: > It is very hard to make sense of raw numbers. For example, it'll be more > useful to show the average value of teachers/school, students/teacher and > state average for > each along with number of teachers. You could do > something sim

[datameet] Exploring DISE Data for Karnataka

2014-04-01 Thread Gautam John
Hello DataMeet-ers: The KLP team would love your feedback on this! Over the years, we at KLP, have been big fans of the data that the District Information System for Education collects. DISE collects an incredible array of data on all primary schools, public and private, in

Re: [datameet] Schools related Data

2014-03-27 Thread Gautam John
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Venkatraman S wrote: > One of my intents of this ask was to understand whether schools were open in > 'accepting' such student management systems. I am not keen on the solution > being offered, but the dynamics of the schools in implementing such a > solution. Ba

Re: [datameet] Schools related Data

2014-03-27 Thread Gautam John
Reportbee is really good stuff. Also came across http://www.classalyze.com/ -- 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 and stop receiving emai

Re: [datameet] Schools related Data

2014-03-27 Thread Gautam John
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Venkatraman S wrote: > Has anyone in this forum worked with schools/colleges on collecting/managing > data(i.e, student info)? To add to what Vinayak wrote, KLP collects and analyses data from public schools and pre-schools - about the schools and children and pe

Re: [datameet] API for Bangalore

2014-03-01 Thread Gautam John
On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Gora Mohanty wrote: > idea of having a way to get data from the Excel files, and other sources, on > data.gov.in and other places, and providing real API-based access, and have > some thoughts on this. Should we discuss this here, or take it offline. Wouldn't some

Re: [datameet] [Group business] DataMeet Register Trust!

2014-02-28 Thread Gautam John
Super news! Congratulations! On Friday, 28 February 2014, Nisha Thompson wrote: > Hey everyone! > > I'm excited to announce that this morning we have registered DataMeet as a > trust! > > We will be sharing more information soon and will be putting up the > paperwork information also. > > Thej a

Re: [datameet] Connecting political boundaries to PIN codes/mapping PIN codes

2014-02-14 Thread Gautam John
Jeff, Is this for a particular state or for the entire country? If for Karnataka, we can help as we did this exercise to create reports like these: http://www.klp.org.in/reports//infrastructure/English/MP_Bangalore_Central.pdf If for the entire country, you can buy polygons of PIN Codes from http

Re: [datameet] Pre-delimitation maps for Bangalore

2014-01-19 Thread Gautam John
Oh. Not that I know. On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Shree D N wrote: > Oh, okay.. but is it mapped anywhere? Something that we can see? I don't > know how to use these files :-( > > > On 20 January 2014 12:07, Gautam John wrote: >> >> I have the

Re: [datameet] Pre-delimitation maps for Bangalore

2014-01-19 Thread Gautam John
I have these: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9ju23hfhr7m4ep5/230210_dump_eci.zip On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Shree D N wrote: > Can somebody help me with Pre-delimitation maps for Bangalore? > This is to identify the assembly constituencies falling under Bangalore > North and South LS constituen

Re: [datameet] Bangalore Constituency / Ward map

2014-01-13 Thread Gautam John
Thejesh has the ward maps here: http://openbangalore.org/available-data/ On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Parag Sarda wrote: > Hello Data Enthusiast, > > I am looking for open and free data which maps Bangalore Constituencies. > Something like KML file which I can impose on Google Maps. > > Does

[datameet] Yearly Population of Bangalore

2014-01-05 Thread Gautam John
Hi: Anyone know where I might be able to find estimates for the yearly population of Bangalore from 2003 onwards, please? Best, Gautam -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet"

Re: [datameet] Analytics for the Delhi results?

2013-12-09 Thread Gautam John
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 1:41 PM, konark modi wrote: > If this can be available in CSV format then it is very easy to incorporate > in my framework and visualize it. I'm hoping they will make the Excel sheets available soon: http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/ElectionStatistics.aspx -- For more details

Re: [datameet] Re: Invitation to Open Data Visualization Workshop in Bangalore, 18th November 2-4pm

2013-11-17 Thread Gautam John
Just a reminder that this is today at 2PM. Hope to see some of you there. On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Alejandro Corbi wrote: > Just a reminder. Workshop is taking place next Monday (2-4pm) at Center of > Internet and Society, more infos under: > > http://blog.klp.org.in/2013/10/workshop-on-

Re: [datameet] Re: MP/MLA Shapes

2013-11-09 Thread Gautam John
On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 10:45 PM, Abhinav Gupta wrote: > Bumping topic. Has anyone here found any source for the MP/MLA constituency > shapefiles? Or has ECI re-released it by any chance (a google search says no, > but then...). Sadly, only from commercial sources. -- For more details about t

Re: [datameet] IWP: Data Capacity Building Case Study

2013-10-29 Thread Gautam John
In Akshara's experience, because we devolve data collection to the teachers themselves and have no real control over them, giving them smartphones would be risky for us because we'd probably lose many of them. Also, with paper, the replacement cost and time is easy and it is a known work flow for m

Re: [datameet] India Village boundaries and Lat/Long

2013-10-24 Thread Gautam John
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Gautam John wrote: > >> Are you willing to pay for it? If so, try http://www.mlinfomap.com/ >> >> >> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Raman Arora wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I wanted to know w

Re: [datameet] India Village boundaries and Lat/Long

2013-10-24 Thread Gautam John
Are you willing to pay for it? If so, try http://www.mlinfomap.com/ On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Raman Arora wrote: > Hi All, > > I wanted to know what will be the best source to procure accurate village > level boundaries and lat/long information, which is as per the 2011 Census? > > Thank

Re: [datameet] Govt Tenders

2013-10-22 Thread Gautam John
Thejesh has done some work: https://github.com/openbangalore/karnataka_eprocurement On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Rushabh Mehta wrote: > Dear all, > > Anyone taken a crack at govt tendering info. > > Most of this info is held by closed sites like tendertiger.com etc. I think > this is an un-n

Re: [datameet] Map of Lok Sabha Constituencies?

2013-10-11 Thread Gautam John
Not that expensive, IMHO. On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Srinivasan Ramani wrote: > These are pre-delimitation maps. Post-delimitation maps are not available > except proprietorially (at a very very high cost). > > > On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Rushabh Mehta wrote: >> >> Avinash, >> >> Th

Re: [datameet] Converting old Devnagari fonts to unicode.

2013-07-05 Thread Gautam John
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 8:59 PM, Rushabh Mehta wrote: > Will be curious to learn how do you do it at Pratham? Any chance there is a > Python script lying around :) ? I am looking at Padma and thinking how do I > use it because even if I manage to decode it, I will still need to run batch > process

Re: [datameet] Converting old Devnagari fonts to unicode.

2013-07-05 Thread Gautam John
This is a huge problem and something that we have been struggling with at Pratham Books. While you can create maps they are wildly inaccurate and you'll need one for every font too. -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are

Re: [datameet] CorporateDir

2013-06-30 Thread Gautam John
Thanks Manish. Emailed 'em. Anyone know him? Will look at Open Corporates too but I think CorporateDir is a much more current source. -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" gr

[datameet] CorporateDir

2013-06-30 Thread Gautam John
Anyone know who runs http://corporatedir.com/ Is a wonderful source of linked data that I would dearly love to see connected to the data in http://myneta.info Even a casual perusal shows some really interesting stuff, for example: Deshpande's son and NA Harris are directors in the Harris mining

Re: [datameet] Fwd: NCERT Textbooks

2013-06-30 Thread Gautam John
On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 6:52 PM, S Anand wrote: > Here's a response from Prof. Rajaram Sharma of the NCERT on how NCERT books > may be redistributed. Thanks, Anand. I wish they'd just use an appropriate license for it given their stance on redistribution. -- For more details about this list ht

[datameet] Meet The Woman Who Started The Peace Corps ... For Geeks

2013-06-19 Thread Gautam John
"The 9 most exciting words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government, and I'm here to code.'" — definitely NOT Ronald Reagan. And yet, these programmers are making the government so efficient that even the Gipper would blush. Don't miss 0:55, when you'll meet a fire hydrant looking for

Re: [datameet] update on askyourgovt

2013-05-23 Thread Gautam John
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:13 PM, Thejesh GN wrote: > Check http://askyourgovt.in/questions This is so awesome. > - 10 more RTI response migration in progress Pranesh should have more than a few. > - How feasible it is to convert pdf n image into text for search http://stackoverflow.com/ques

Re: [datameet] [group business] forming a DataMeet Trust

2013-04-23 Thread Gautam John
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 6:25 AM, Nisha Thompson wrote: > Do you think it is a good idea for us to become more formal? Finally! Yes. I think it is a good idea. I do not think the group is becoming more formal just that we are creating a formal structure to carry out activities of this group, info

[datameet] Re: Data and Stories

2013-04-04 Thread Gautam John
Hey there: Just a reminder about the data and media session at NIAS this Saturday at 11AM. If you or any you might know are interested and coming, please RSVP to Rajesh copied on this email? A tentative agenda is below: 11:00-11:15: Rajesh Kasturirangan. Introduction to the data, model and story

[datameet] Data and Stories

2013-03-30 Thread Gautam John
Hello: This might be interesting to those of you who love playing with data to tell stories and to those of you who work in the media and might like to use data to tell stories. Please do email Rajesh if you are interested in joining in. - Gautam -- Forwarded message -- From: Ra

Re: [datameet] Moving from Google Maps to OSM

2013-03-12 Thread Gautam John
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Arjun Venkatraman wrote: > What rocks is the ability to search on circles :) Yeah. We thought that was pretty cool too. :) > Is Sajjad on the list? Have a few questions... Yes he is! -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- Y

[datameet] Moving from Google Maps to OSM

2013-03-12 Thread Gautam John
Over the last few months, Sajjad has been working to move KLP from Google Maps to OSM. It's been baked and is now ready for the world to try so give it a shot. Let us know what rocks and what doesn't? http://klp.org.in:9015/map -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions

Re: [datameet] From open data to a culture of openness

2013-03-03 Thread Gautam John
So some thoughts: 1. When talking about the RTI and "open data", maybe it is worth talking about the proactive disclosure bit? Me thinks that a case for open data can be built on that. 2. I don't see a compelling case, rhetoric aside, as to *why* private organisations should share their data. Pers

[datameet] From open data to a culture of openness

2013-03-01 Thread Gautam John
"If India is to transition to a true knowledge economy, open access, availability and contestability of public knowledge is paramount." http://pragati.nationalinterest.in/2013/03/from-open-data-to-a-culture-of-openness/ -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- Yo

Re: [datameet] Data release as part of Open Data Camp

2013-02-25 Thread Gautam John
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Pavan Srinath wrote: > 1) We announce what we're willing to share here on this email thread. (I can > go first!) Count KLP in. -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: [datameet] Data release as part of Open Data Camp

2013-02-24 Thread Gautam John
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Karthik Shashidhar wrote: > Perhaps we can make it mandatory for each and every speaker at the sessions > to make public some data that they possess and which is not in the open > domain already? That's a great idea, Karthik. -- For more details about this lis

Re: [datameet] What I want to say

2013-02-23 Thread Gautam John
We love you too, Thej! - Handheld On 23 Feb 2013 23:21, "Zainab Bawa" wrote: > Yes, seems like transparency and openness in practice! > > Thej is leading by example. > > Zainab > On Feb 23, 2013 11:14 PM, "Sajjad Anwar" wrote: > >> We are all so open no? Open Data, you know. ;-) >> On Feb 23, 2

[datameet] Fwd: [open-government] WWW Foundation & IDRC - Launching Research: Exploring the Emerging Impacts of Open Data in Developing Countries

2013-02-20 Thread Gautam John
Might be of interest. -- Forwarded message -- From: Tracey P. Lauriault Date: Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 6:05 PM Subject: [open-government] WWW Foundation & IDRC - Launching Research: Exploring the Emerging Impacts of Open Data in Developing Countries To: civicaccess discuss , open-gov

Re: [datameet] Fwd: [1999-batch-pilani] A proposal for Excel Non-Profit Crowdfunding School Project

2013-02-18 Thread Gautam John
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Karthik Shashidhar wrote: > 2. Can an idea be copyrighted?? No. Expressions can. -- 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 unsubscri

Re: [datameet] Is data behind non-monetary paywalls really open?

2013-02-17 Thread Gautam John
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Sumant Suresh Kulkarni wrote: > Very interesting question. However, before putting my points here, I wanted > to know what are you referring to as non-monetary paywalls. Can you give > some examples? It would definitely make the context more clear for me. >From

Re: [datameet] Is data behind non-monetary paywalls really open?

2013-02-17 Thread Gautam John
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Karthik Shashidhar wrote: > What do you think of websites or organizations that ask you to fill up an > elaborate form or write an elaborate research proposal before they share > their data with you? Do you think such data is really "open"? It isn't open. -- F

Re: [datameet] [Bangalore Open DataCamp] Workshop Request

2013-02-12 Thread Gautam John
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Nisha Thompson wrote: > There is some interest in an intro to data visualization design workshop. > Can anyone recommend someone for it? S Anand Megha Vishwanath -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message

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 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

2013-01-31 Thread Gautam John
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Karthik Shashidhar wrote: > MP Shapes can be derived from MLA shapes if we have data of which assembly > constituencies form which parliamentary constituencies, right? Are they interlocking like that? -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/disc

Re: [datameet] MP/MLA Shapes

2013-01-31 Thread Gautam John
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Meera wrote: > Raghavan from Mapunity says they have MLA Shapes, but not MP Shapes. Thanks, Meera. Raghavan - any chance you might be able to share these, please? -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this messag

Re: [datameet] [Bangalore] Talk requests for DataCamp

2013-01-30 Thread Gautam John
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Nisha Thompson wrote: > JPAL > MyNeta Raises hand. -- 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 and stop rec

Re: [datameet] MP/MLA Shapes

2013-01-18 Thread Gautam John
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Sabarish, KSITM wrote: > for my small proj https://keralapostbox.crowdmap.com/ Thej is doing something similar. http://openbangalore.org/postbox/ -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you ar

Re: [datameet] MP/MLA Shapes

2013-01-18 Thread Gautam John
Bumping this up: Does no one know where we can get MP/MLA constituency shape files? -- 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 t

Re: [datameet] Seven years of SSLC in Karnataka.

2013-01-10 Thread Gautam John
And an explanation of the data and the inforgraphic: http://blog.klp.org.in/2013/01/sslc-data-and-infographics.html -- 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

Re: [datameet] Seven years of SSLC in Karnataka.

2013-01-09 Thread Gautam John
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Sameer Panchangam wrote: > Its interesting to see how boys have started to do better than girls in Govt > schools in the last few years in a few districts (ref: Perhaps. But I wouldn't call it a trend just yet. A question: How can we make this more meaningful and

[datameet] Seven years of SSLC in Karnataka.

2013-01-09 Thread Gautam John
Early last year S Anand had hosted a data jam at the Akshara office around Karnataka SSLC results and their blog post is here: http://blog.gramener.com/460/comparing-school-performance Over the last few months, we, at Akshara, have been playing with the same data set and Sajjad has created a visua

Re: [datameet] MP/MLA Shapes

2012-11-28 Thread Gautam John
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 11:09 PM, Aashish Gupta wrote: > is there other election commission stuff available on dropbox like this? Heh. No. This is what I downloaded and mirrored. No one knows where we can get MP and MLA shapefiles? =( -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/di

[datameet] Lessons in country performance in education

2012-11-28 Thread Gautam John
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Re: [datameet] MP/MLA Shapes

2012-11-27 Thread Gautam John
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Gautam John wrote: > The Election Commission website used to have them but I can't find > them now. This is a dump from then: The link should be: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9ju23hfhr7m4ep5/230210_dump_eci.zip -- For more details about thi

Re: [datameet] MP/MLA Shapes

2012-11-27 Thread Gautam John
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Megha Vishwanath wrote: > Can anyone here point me to recent enough shape files for MP/MLA > constituencies? The Election Commission website used to have them but I can't find them now. This is a dump from then: https://twitter.com/MoodyCurious/status/2735079840

[datameet] Fwd: [open-government] Fwd: [OpenDataBC] Open Data Hackathon How To Guide

2012-10-24 Thread Gautam John
Might be useful. - Handheld -- Forwarded message -- From: "James McKinney" Date: 25 Oct 2012 06:59 Subject: [open-government] Fwd: [OpenDataBC] Open Data Hackathon How To Guide To: Handy guide for running a hackathon / appathon / datapalooza / etc. Begin forwarded message: *Fr

Re: [datameet] Re: PIN Code to MP/MLA/Corporator

2012-09-28 Thread Gautam John
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 10:53 AM, sridhar pabbisetty wrote: > The best mapping can be sourced from myneta.info where we did some amount of > approximation to align it to the MLA / MP where most voters belong to. Thanks, Sridhar. So that was the source of my query - I was looking at the site and

Re: [datameet] Bangalore Open Data Repository is now http://openbangalore.org/

2012-09-28 Thread Gautam John
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Thejesh GN wrote: > Bangalore Open Data Repository has a new home at http://openbangalore.org/ Totally awesome man. Good going. We'll have more to add in the coming months. -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received t

[datameet] PIN Code to MP/MLA/Corporator

2012-09-28 Thread Gautam John
Hello! I was wondering whether there exists a mapping of PIN Codes to MP/MLA/Corporator constituencies/wards, please? Also, if a similar mapping exists to districts/taluks etc.? Best, Gautam -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message bec

Re: [datameet] [OGPL][NIC] NDSAP Comments

2012-09-19 Thread Gautam John
Additional thoughts around specific things? On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Nisha Thompson wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I had send the NIC the attached comments on the NDSAP. It is a combination > of CIS's comments as well as thoughts I have had. > > They have requested some additional thoughts fro

Re: [datameet] Introducing Bangalore Open Data Repository

2012-09-15 Thread Gautam John
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Thejesh GN wrote: > Added and credited KLP. Thanks, Thej! -- 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

Re: [datameet] Introducing Bangalore Open Data Repository

2012-09-15 Thread Gautam John
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Thejesh GN wrote: > Where can I download? you will mail me? http://klp.org.in/listFiles/2 -- 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 u

Re: [datameet] Introducing Bangalore Open Data Repository

2012-09-15 Thread Gautam John
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Thejesh GN wrote: > I have been collecting data about Bangalore for years. The collected data > include Election, weather, GIS etc and were from different sources. I have > been wanting to distribute it online for a while. Two big reasons to do it This is super,

Re: [datameet] Bangalore - BBMP ward boundaries - shape files available now

2012-08-30 Thread Gautam John
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Thejesh GN wrote: > Shape files, SQL files and KML files are available at > http://code.thejeshgn.com/bangalore/src/tip/GIS/ Sweet! Thanks, Thej! -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are