Re: [silk] Is South India Really Richer? | This is Ashok.

2013-04-17 Thread Pranesh Prakash
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 7:28 AM, Venkatesh Hariharan wrote: > > On a slightly tangential note, is the census data available for free. I was > once told that if one wants to buy the complete set of census data, the > cost runs into crores. Last year, the government published a National Open > Data

Re: [silk] Is South India Really Richer? | This is Ashok.

2013-04-17 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:58:21AM +0530, Venkatesh Hariharan wrote: > On a slightly tangential note, is the census data available for free. I was > once told that if one wants to buy the complete set of census data, the > cost runs into crores. Last year, the government published a National Open >

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2013-04-17 Thread Anish Mohammed
As spare time "data scientist/hacker" i believe with a bit of slicing and dicing,quite a few correlations and trends, definitely some very cool visualisation /infographics and most definitely a very good article for journalistic type :) Could someone please point me at the data :) Regards Anish

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2013-04-16 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
Satellite images of light pollution in India show the most uniformly polluted sky of any developing country. In contrast, China is mostly only polluted with light haze along the coast. The few dark regions of India are the most revealing: Dantewada (maoists who tear down the few electricity poles

Re: [silk] Is South India Really Richer? | This is Ashok.

2013-04-16 Thread Venkatesh Hariharan
On a slightly tangential note, is the census data available for free. I was once told that if one wants to buy the complete set of census data, the cost runs into crores. Last year, the government published a National Open Data Policy under which the government promised to release datasets as open

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2013-04-16 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Naresh wrote: > The final census data is out anytime now.time > For a hackathon?silklisters arise!! I think tomorrow's meetup is ideal to expand on your ideas on what can be done with the raw census data. Udhay

[silk] Is South India Really Richer? | This is Ashok.

2013-04-16 Thread Naresh
The final census data is out anytime now.time For a hackathon?silklisters arise!! Naresh Narasimhan Sent from my Phone > > http://ashokarao.com/2013/04/15/is-south-india-really-richer/ > > Is South India Really Richer? | This is Ashok. > > That South India is more developed than the Hindi-sp