[datameet] [GeoBLR] June Meetup and Mapping.

2014-05-26 Thread Sajjad Anwar
Hello everyone, Just wanted to announce our June meetup. June 5th, 6pm - 8pm at the Center for Internet and Society. In this edition, we thought it would be nice to spend couple of hours editing OpenStreetMap and fixing things specific to Bangalore to begin with. We will also do a quick

Re: [datameet] Re: Data Sharing Guidelines

2014-05-26 Thread Thejesh GN
Yes. SQLite is good. I blogged about it as a format for open data sometime back https://thejeshgn.com/2012/08/23/sqlite-open-format-for-open-data/ May be its time to do SQL for Poets kind of workshop for who are interested. -- Thejesh GN ⏚ ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್ http://thejeshgn.com GPG ID :

Re: [datameet] Data Sharing Guidelines

2014-05-26 Thread Ashish Pandey
I am looking ahead as a NoSQL db like Mongodb. NeDB (a lightweight Javascript database using MongoDB’s API) http://blog.mongodb.org/post/55693224724/nedb-a-lightweight-javascript-database-using-mongodbs Thanks Regards Ashish Pandey On 26-May-2014, at 12:08 pm, Thejesh GN i...@thejeshgn.com

Re: [datameet] Re: Indian Elections 2014 - ECI Datasets

2014-05-26 Thread indro ray
Does anyone has the list of women winners? We know the number of women winners (61) and from which states they come from from this DTE linkhttp://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/61-women-make-it-lok-sabha-2014-against-59-2009, but does any their names and CS? Will appreciate any help. Thanks,

[datameet] Data Book list

2014-05-26 Thread Nisha Thompson
Meera's post inspired me. Can we make a list of good data and related reads? I can put the list up and we can share books that are available. I have: Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think http://www.amazon.com/Big-Data-Revolution-Transform-Think/dp/0544002695

Re: [datameet] Re: 'data science' and 'open data'

2014-05-26 Thread Nisha Thompson
Ok I have added open data to the by line. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!aboutgroup/datameet On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 2:55 AM, sumandro suman...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I agree that 'open data' and 'data science' do not necessarily fit together cleanly. That's why I referred to the

Re: [datameet] [GeoBLR] June Meetup and Mapping.

2014-05-26 Thread Nisha Thompson
Excellent excited to see what you guys do! Also I have started putting up some information on GIS data, because it is the most asked for. http://datameet.org/2014/05/27/indian-shapefile-central/ If anyone has any resources or data to add please feel free to comment. Nisha On Mon, May 26,

Re: [datameet] Data Sharing Guidelines

2014-05-26 Thread Nisha Thompson
THanks Dilip, Those 5 points are right on. I would also add a point about ownership and licensing. I think formats is a good conversation we can have. comments on the others below On 26.05.2014 06:50, Dilip Damle wrote: Hello, I think we need to discuss the following 1. When is the