[datameet] Income groups

2014-01-26 Thread ThinRhino
Hello Folks, I am looking for (historical) data of various income groups across the country. What I am looking for something similar to: 0 - 10,000 - % of total population 10,001 - 50,000 - % of total population I thought the IT dept. would have such data, but could not locate it. Tried

Re: [datameet] Re: Income groups

2014-01-26 Thread ThinRhino
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 09:00:07PM -0800, Rakesh Kumar wrote: did you try NSS data ? I tried Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation. A quick lazy search for NSSO (National Sample Survey Office) took me to the website of Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation. Could

Re: [datameet] Digest for datameet@googlegroups.com - 1 Message in 1 Topic

2014-01-31 Thread ThinRhino
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 08:59:43AM -0500, Aaditya Dar wrote: Re data on income groups: I am not sure if this is helpful but Abhijit Banerjee and Thomas Piketty had a paper in 2005 (I think) where they used income tax data to analyze share of income of the top 1%, 0.1% and 0.01% in India. An

Re: [datameet] A library that tell story by generating a blogpost from data in excel sheet

2014-04-25 Thread ThinRhino
On 24/04, Vaibhav P wrote: Very interesting. But its nature being tightly coupled with Excel semantics, I wonder how diverse scenarios it can attribute to. They are using an excel file, instead of a plain text file, where one might one would had semantics similar to any config file. Since

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

2014-05-23 Thread ThinRhino
of the algorithms / technology used by all of us are open sourced by their respective authors. If they had not opened up their work ever, we (esp. the self-learners) would have never learn't a thing about data science! :-) Cheers, ThinRhino -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India

[datameet] Curiosity Question

2014-06-02 Thread ThinRhino
. Cheers ThinRhino -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send

Re: [datameet] Curiosity Question

2014-06-03 Thread ThinRhino
On 02/06, Nisha Thompson wrote: Hi ThinRhino, THe answer to all your questions is yes. We do gravitate to political discussions but it is not because those other discussions aren't allowed. Please feel free to share your thoughts and ideas on competitions and data analysis! I think

Re: [datameet] Google mapping comes under CBI scrutiny - what's do we think

2014-07-28 Thread ThinRhino
On 28/07, Thejesh GN wrote: I am less worried about Google but more about Open Street Map. In this specific case Google is getting questioned for asking public to map, which is exactly the case with OSM. Is there anything that we can do preemptively to safe guard OSM? I see this news