Re: [datameet] Re: Election Results day

2014-05-14 Thread rukmini shrinivasan
Thanks everyone. My colleagues have been working on scraping and then having the numbers go directly into a map as they come in, and so were hoping for a rough idea of what the results page layout will be (esp with respect to unique constituency numbers). If they stick to the Assembly 2013 layout,

Re: [datameet] Re: Election Results day

2014-05-14 Thread Gilles Verniers
there are still invalid votes, that is discrepancies, dysfunctioning machines, etc. The ECI adjusts slightly the data before publishing the official results but that takes a while. My experience with previous assembly elections show that it is very marginal so one can discard it at first, and

Re: [datameet] Do you want Openstreetmap.in ? it's decision time

2014-05-14 Thread satyaakam goswami
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Nisha Thompson ni...@datameet.org wrote: Hey Satya, Can you update the group? ​The whole group is open https://www.loomio.org/d/IThldJoE/openstreetmap-in-do-we-really-want-to-make-this-happen, the gist of the discussions so far 1) there are legal issues

[datameet] Planning Architecture students contributing to OSM

2014-05-14 Thread satyaakam goswami
​ http://hydlab.in/blog/interns/planning-architecture-students-contributing-to-osm/ -Satya Satyaakam.net | fossevents.in | fossacademy.org -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[datameet] Facebook Data

2014-05-14 Thread Kannamma Raman
How can i get data of Facebook and Twitter presence constituency wise in 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 datameet group. To

[datameet] India states and district geospatial data in language

2014-05-14 Thread Justin Meyers
Hello, I am looking for gis data that has administrative boundaries for india with english as well as Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, etc. I understand not all of these languages are used in each state/ district, but if the dataset has some of the information it would be better than none. Does anyone

Re: [datameet] India states and district geospatial data in language

2014-05-14 Thread Sajjad Anwar
Hello Justin, The data that you are looking for is really interesting. I can't think of any source, but you might find it in OpenStreetMap (http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2018151). Look for boundary=administrative and admin_level 4 and 3. On the other hand, this is perhaps something that

[datameet] India Parliamentary constituencies lightweight version

2014-05-14 Thread Dilip Damle
Dear All, I have created a lighter version of the Parliamentary constituencies shapefile. This one is being offered for checking for any big blunders I intend to release it properly tomorrow. Please let me know your observations if any this is the copy of the readme enclosed with the file

[datameet] Become a School of Data Fellow | School of Data - Evidence is Power

2014-05-14 Thread Aaditya Dar
This might be of interest to the people on this group: schoolofdata.org/2014/05/09/we-need-you-become-a-school-of-data-fellow -- 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

[datameet] draft 2 of ECI Letter

2014-05-14 Thread Nisha Thompson
Hey All, I have changed a few things from the first version. I put it up on the wiki for review here: http://datameet.org/wiki/odclettertoecidraft It would be good to send it now since Elections are over and we can do follow up with them. Please add anything that you can think of. Also if we

[datameet] Re: India Parliamentary constituencies lightweight version

2014-05-14 Thread Dilip Damle
Hi, I am doing a checking of this data. I have found about 6-7 very small polygons missing in my data This and any other corrections I will do today. If anyone finds anything please let me know. It would be great if someone downloads and opens the file and tells if it works or there are some

Re: [datameet] draft 2 of ECI Letter

2014-05-14 Thread Ashish Pandey
Hi, I don't want to start a debate on format but looking at current/emerging technologies format used by those. I would like to propose a JSON (java script object notion) format. which has number of advantages over XML format including being faster. On 15-May-2014, at 10:08 am, Venkatraman

Re: [datameet] Re: India Parliamentary constituencies lightweight version

2014-05-14 Thread Dilip Damle
I will also make a KML later today and post it. On Thursday, May 15, 2014 9:51:53 AM UTC+5:30, Srini wrote: Dear Dilip, Thank you for the lightweight version. I still found the converted KML version of it a bit difficult to use in a Fusion Table; but I copied your KML attributes to

Re: [datameet] Re: India Parliamentary constituencies lightweight version

2014-05-14 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
HI Dilip, Thanks for making the lightweight version. I have checked it, and except for a few minor topological issues, there is only one major issue. The Constituency of Mandi in HP is being repeated multiple times. Otherwise it looks great. Regards, Devdatta Tengshe On Thu, May 15, 2014 at

[datameet] Extracting address level data from OpenStreetMap

2014-05-14 Thread Raman Arora
I'm interested in analyzing address level data for specific sub-localities using OpenStreetMaps. Some questions that I have 1. Is it available to download a dataset in the form of a CSV file 2. Will it provide me with the associated Lat/Long 3. What is the extent of population of address level