Re: [datameet] What kinds of things could we do with Daksh 2014 MP Constituency data?

2014-02-13 Thread Kishore Mandyam
Thejesh, great questions. Here are some answers. 1. Physical because our intent is to get the opinion of aam janta. And less than 10% of them have Internet connections. The biases in only-online surveys is unbelievable. 2. Non-OCR for Hindi was an operational decision that some of our surveying

Re: [datameet] What kinds of things could we do with Daksh 2014 MP Constituency data?

2014-02-13 Thread Sutirtha Roy
Hi Kishore: Thanks for sharing this information. It will be very interesting to see the results that emerge from this exercise. I like the way you stated the problem: impact of having over 2.5 lakh people discussing these issues with their friends and family will be significant, we believe, in

Re: [datameet] What kinds of things could we do with Daksh 2014 MP Constituency data?

2014-02-13 Thread Kishore Mandyam
Sutirtha, I don't think your question is vague at all: it is one of the issues we ourselves wrestled with last year. We did attempt this exercise in Karnataka: to map the issues from our surveys with the issues discussed (or even raised as questions) by MLAs. Unfortunately, we were unable to find

Re: [datameet] What kinds of things could we do with Daksh 2014 MP Constituency data?

2014-02-13 Thread Meera
At a Bangalore level (3 MPs), We (Citizen Matters) are trying to map the questions and perhaps the debates as something directly relevant to the constituents or not. Will keep you posted on that. Meanwhile, we got some details of the MPLADs expenditure data for the Bangalore MPs - available on