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

2014-05-12 Thread Sabarish, KSITM
There is a website called http://www.fallingrain.com/world/index.html and Karnataka http://www.fallingrain.com/world/IN/19/ http://www.fallingrain.com/world/IN/19/ for Karnataka, which gives the temp and percipitation details, chk, wether they have historical data Reg SABA On Sat, May 10,

[datameet] [Article] Limitations of the PDF

2014-05-12 Thread Sriram Karra
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/limitations-of-the-pdf/article5998841.ece == snip == The basic format doesn’t include any requirement that text be selectable or searchable, while data presented as charts and tables is often impossible to export in any useable way. It’s the standard file

Re: [datameet] [Article] Limitations of the PDF

2014-05-12 Thread Raphael Susewind
Lets hope the Election Commission reads this before declaring results... On 12.05.2014 10:46, Sriram Karra wrote: http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/limitations-of-the-pdf/article5998841.ece == snip == The basic format doesn’t include any requirement that text be selectable

Re: [datameet] [Article] Limitations of the PDF

2014-05-12 Thread Venkata Pingali
I have been working on PDF extraction. I find that PDF combines 'what' (text itself) with 'how' (transformations, presentation). The table that we see if often just a collection of lines and rectangles put together in an adhoc fashion. It could be due to pdf generator libraries themselves. It

Re: [datameet] Need Help! How to make an Excel sheet searchable on my website?

2014-05-12 Thread Thejesh GN
You could use 1. SheetJS https://jlord.github.io/sheetsee.js/ - Creates map links and also makes the columns seachable (or filter) 2. Freedive is actually very cool. What issues are you facing with it? Thej -- Thejesh GN *⏚* ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್ http://thejeshgn.com GPG ID : 0xBFFC8DD3C06DD6B0 On

Re: [datameet] Need Help! How to make an Excel sheet searchable on my website?

2014-05-12 Thread Ravi Bajpai
Amrit, thanks for the tip! Let me try and catch hold of someone good with JSON or XML. Thajesh, Freedive is quite great, but it does not render search results. I am not sure what the problem is. Let me try this other option you have mentioned here. Thanks a ton! Best, Ravi On Mon, May 12,

[datameet] Shapefile Help

2014-05-12 Thread Nisha Thompson
I've been creating pages on teh DataMeet wiki and the site for some of the links to datasets. I started a page and a wiki page on shapefiles: http://datameet.org/indian-shapefiles-central/ I'm going through the list to add links and more information on how to get shapefiles and putting

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,