Re: [datameet] Live elections results dashboards

2017-03-11 Thread Pavan Srinath
India >>> <https://siddadel.github.io/maps/int_map_Relevant_India.html> >>> >>> 2017 Assembly Results of Goa >>> <https://siddadel.github.io/maps/int_map_Goa.html> >>> 2017 Assembly Results of Manipur >>> <https://siddadel.g

Re: [datameet] Live elections results dashboards

2017-03-11 Thread Pavan Srinath
Fantastic stuff. Hey folks Has anyone here scraped the election results for UP from the ECI website? Hope you can share some of the data. :) Specifically, I'm looking for constituency-wise data on voteshares of the top ~2-3 vote winners in each. Thanks Pavan On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 8:23 PM, sh

Re: [datameet] Re: Quick help -- Bangalore shape files

2016-04-12 Thread Pavan Srinath
Thanks so much. Regards Pavan On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Sharad Lele wrote: > Pavan: > > Please also see this thread: > > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/datameet/dBNmEToJ5CI/OOQ0hLbcS1MJ > > Sharad > > > On Monday, April 11, 2016 at 11:29:08 PM

Re: [datameet] Re: Quick help -- Bangalore shape files

2016-04-11 Thread Pavan Srinath
van, >> I have some data for districts and villages. I'll have to check the data >> to make sure it is roughly correct >> >> >> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-KpJghnYfc4Y/VwvfY-1QGwI/AAAvJqM/nG88YioeBpwmeeA9dliNARi52kw-h9tWw/s1600/kar.jpg> >>

[datameet] Quick help -- Bangalore shape files

2016-04-11 Thread Pavan Srinath
Hi folks, I know that there have been a lot of discussions on this group on district & taluk shape files -- and I've subsequently gotten very lost and very confused following those threads. :) Does anyone have shapefiles of Karnataka districts (priority) and taluks (optional)? Would appreciate it

Re: [datameet] Job Alert: Looking for a Quant Analyst at the Takshashila Institution

2015-08-12 Thread Pavan Srinath
; > On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 4:31 PM, Pavan Srinath > wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> At Takshashila <http://takshashila.org.in>, we are looking to hire an >> analyst with good data skills who will work on challenging policy problems >> and inform the debate w

[datameet] Job Alert: Looking for a Quant Analyst at the Takshashila Institution

2015-08-12 Thread Pavan Srinath
R, Python, d3js and MS Excel is desirable. The analyst should be a quick learner and will have an opportunity to learn public policy. We are agnostic to analyst's academic background. Anyone who is interested can send an email with their CV and work samples to Pavan Srinath pa...@takshashila.org.

Re: [datameet] National Air Quality Index Website

2015-04-08 Thread Pavan Srinath
, Bangalore the most polluted place in the country. Let's wait for them to figure their fundamentals out. Regards, Pavan -- Pavan Srinath Weather Enthusiast Know Your Climate <http://blog.knowyourclimate.org> On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 1:32 PM, srinivas kodali wrote: > I went through it la

Re: [datameet] Re: temperature data for cities - historical

2014-06-19 Thread Pavan Srinath
Hi Avinash, IMD charges a lot of money for daily station data and you won't find any reliable sources that go back several years. They started a set of ~500 automated weather stations across the country a couple of years ago, and you can find the latest few months of that data online. Anand has a

Re: [datameet] Need temperature data | Activists name and shame heat wave suspects

2014-05-12 Thread Pavan Srinath
Hi Rajesh, You can check out what I wrote on this last year: blog.knowyourclimate.org/2013/changing-local-climate-of-bangalore-1/ & a paper by TV Ramachandra at IISc: http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy/paper/Bangalore_heatisland/index.htm Regards, Pavan On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Raje

Re: [datameet] Online course on data journalism

2014-05-01 Thread Pavan Srinath
Thanks Nisha! On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 8:56 PM, Nisha Thompson wrote: > Put it up on the upcoming events page! > > http://datameet.org/upcoming-events/ > > Nisha > > > On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Pavan Srinath wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> The

[datameet] Online course on data journalism

2014-05-01 Thread Pavan Srinath
-journalism/ Applications are open now and will be closing soon. Karthik and I will be happy to answer any queries. Regards, Pavan -- Pavan Srinath Head, Policy Research *The Takshashila Institution* -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this

Re: [datameet] rainfall data from S. India

2014-02-06 Thread Pavan Srinath
net/publication/235926223_Muttil_Wayanad_Rainfall_28_year_dataset_1983-2011>from a coffee planter in Wayanad a couple of years ago. Regards, Pavan -- Pavan Srinath @zeusisdead <http://twitter.com/zeusisdead> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Robin Vijayan wrote: > Hi all, > >

Re: [datameet] Analytics for the Delhi results?

2013-12-09 Thread Pavan Srinath
Do see Karthik Shashidhar's piece on this in Mint that just came out: http://www.livemint.com/Specials/t5687TxRCE3aKu4svfHXrK/Assembly-elections-Analysing-NOTA.html On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Sreenivas KN wrote: > Thanks. very informative. > > > On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Srinivasan

Re: [datameet] Slicing and Dicing Census Data

2013-07-18 Thread Pavan Srinath
Is the Census 2011 microdata out, yet? That might make it possible for people to query a subset of the larger census dataset. On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Gautham Ravichander < gauthamravichan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the info Avinash. > Looked at NSS data as well and ran into the s

Re: [datameet] Your data, going on sale soon.

2013-05-21 Thread Pavan Srinath
Well said, Rushabh. A friend had made this earlier comment on most of the UID critics out there - that most of the answers to common concerns are available on the UID website and their publicly available reports. Nobody seems to want to read them. On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Rushabh Mehta

[datameet] 2011 Census Primary Abstracts are out!

2013-04-30 Thread Pavan Srinath
At long last, the much awaited primary abstracts are out! http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=95372 http://censusindia.gov.in/ Happy fishing, Pavan -- Pavan Srinath <http://flavors.me/psrinath> -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You re

Re: [datameet] Census/IRS data on Bangalore

2013-04-18 Thread Pavan Srinath
ndia>. You might be better off using these directly rather than refer to reports which use this data. Regards, Pavan -- Pavan Srinath <http://flavors.me/psrinath> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Meera wrote: > Does anybody have access to recent NSSO/IRS/Census/etc data and analysed

Re: [datameet] IMD's conditions for use of their data

2013-03-07 Thread Pavan Srinath
> > > > > Thej > -- > Thejesh GN | ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್ > http://thejeshgn.com > GPG ID : 0xBFFC8DD3C06DD6B0 > > > On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Pavan Srinath wrote: > >> Here's a 'certificate of undertaking' that the Indian Meteorological >&

[datameet] IMD's conditions for use of their data

2013-03-06 Thread Pavan Srinath
Here's a 'certificate of undertaking' that the Indian Meteorological Department asks you to fill up if you wish to buy any of their data products. Top among a long list of things that annoys me about this is how they can't conceive that I may wish to buy this data as an individual or a citizen, wi

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

2013-03-01 Thread Pavan Srinath
Thanks for sharing, Gautam! Would love to get some comments from the datameet group. On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Gautam John wrote: > "If India is to transition to a true knowledge economy, open access, > availability and contestability of public knowledge is paramount." > > > http://pragat

Re: [datameet] Note to Speakers

2013-02-28 Thread Pavan Srinath
Hi Thej, Can you give some more clarity on how unscheduled slots can be booked? Thanks, Pavan On Feb 28, 2013 3:22 PM, "Thejesh GN" wrote: > > 1. Please register if you haven't already > 2. Please bring your presentations or demo along with you in some offline > format > 3. Please be on time >

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

2013-02-26 Thread Pavan Srinath
for 2000-2005. There might be more that I may be in a position to share, but these I am sure of. :) Your turn! Pavan On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Thejesh GN wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 02/25/2013 07:59 PM, Pavan Srinath wrote: > > N

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

2013-02-25 Thread Pavan Srinath
ta anonymously, and we might need an intermediary (like what Thej does with the wonderful http://openbangalore.org/) Let me know what you all think. Regards, Pavan -- Pavan Srinath <http://flavors.me/psrinath> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Gautam John wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2

Re: [datameet] Hacking the IMD's Android App for hidden API

2013-01-18 Thread Pavan Srinath
Thanks Anand - I was about to mention just this! Thej, this would be a great place to start and in my opinion a lot better than the IMD live weather because: There's data output at every hour. It's for a full host of about 500 stations - so you know that it's original station data and not an artef