[datameet] Portia: Web scraping for non-coders

2014-04-02 Thread Pranesh Prakash
Dear all, There's a very-promising new 'visual web scraper' tool (i.e., a GUI for scrapy) called Portia that might be worth checking out: http://goo.gl/x1S2Hh On github: https://github.com/scrapinghub/portia I am also very late in discovering Autoscraper, again a tool made by Scrapinghub:

Re: [datameet] Exploring DISE Data for Karnataka

2014-04-02 Thread Nisha Thompson
The sanitation data project at Arghyam has been thinking about looking at the DICE data for awhile since we wanted to start looking at the school toilet situation. So I'm really happy to see you guys using it and making it available like this! Just the profiles and reports make it so much easier

Re: [datameet] Portia: Web scraping for non-coders

2014-04-02 Thread Amrit Pal
That's a really well-executed April fool's joke. Oh, my dreams. http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/21xk0v/portia_an_open_source_visual_web_scraper_from/ On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Pranesh Prakash pran...@cis-india.orgwrote: Dear all, There's a very-promising new 'visual web

Re: [datameet] Exploring DISE Data for Karnataka

2014-04-02 Thread Gautam John
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Nisha Thompson nisha.thomp...@gmail.com wrote: Just the profiles and reports make it so much easier to navigate the data. Though I hope that we can be able to click down into the school information from district level on the map in the later versions. The

Re: [datameet] List of LS-2014 Electoral Candidates

2014-04-02 Thread Gautam John
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Megha Vishwanath megha.vishwan...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone here please help point to the list of all potential candidates and their office addresses, if that exists? FWIW, I found Karnataka data here:

Re: [datameet] [ODCBLR2014][Video] Mr. Krishnamurthy

2014-04-02 Thread Raman Chima
Thej, You should be able to merge the three videos into one online via YouTube also. Will other videos and content from the Open Data Camp be uploaded soon as well? Raman. On 2 April 2014 22:26, Thejesh GN i...@thejeshgn.com wrote: I just uploaded the video to youtube, Its a high resolution

Re: [datameet] Re: draft letter to NIC for a data portal for public contributed datasets

2014-04-02 Thread sumandro
Dear Amitangshu and Prachi, Great that Nisha has already shared the link to the GitHub repository that was being populated by Sajjad and others at the ODC hackathon by going through the DataMeet mailing list and noting down all shared datasets. Apart from that, Thej has been creating a portal

[datameet] Email Gold Mine - Blog

2014-04-02 Thread Thejesh GN
As you would know, Sajjad went through whole list and cataloged data sets. https://github.com/datameet/catalog Now I want to go through the list and find great, ever green discussions and convert them to a blog post for posterity. If you have any recommendations, please send. I will do a blog