Hey Johnson, I might be in Mumbai the week after next - so will be great to 
catch up. Sorry have been off the radar since the camp -- it would be great 
to join in the datameet - if that works out! 

Regards,
Ankur




On Wednesday, May 15, 2013 3:24:22 PM UTC-4, JohnsonC wrote:
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> Yes we do need to have a meetup... 
> When? Mostly Saturdays?
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> Where? I can pitch to get a place at the TIFR Campus in Mankhurd, Mumbai. 
> It has proper internet and facilities. (Subsidized food, projectors, etc 
> etc) 
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> On 15 May 2013 20:47, Pradeep Mohandas <[email protected]<javascript:>
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>> Meetup in Mumbai - Let's do it!
>> Code for Mumbai - nice project!
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>> Pradeep
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>> On 15 May 2013 14:58, rushabh <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote:
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>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> Happy to bump into this mailing list. Is anyone interested in a meetup 
>>> in Mumbai - the last one I searched was almost a year ago?
>>>
>>> A quick intro: We had participated in the recent Planning Commission 
>>> hackathon. When we saw the data.gov.in site, we realized that there 
>>> must be a better way to visualize all this data. So we came up with 
>>> http://codeformumbai.org (repository: 
>>> https://github.com/codeformumbai/data-gov-in).
>>>
>>> The goal is to create a data portal that can merge all the datasources 
>>> based on some heuristics (here is a start I did for the data.gov.infiles: 
>>> https://github.com/codeformumbai/data-gov-in/blob/master/build_db.py). 
>>> I was able to map almost 60% datapoints to timeseries and 30% to a region. 
>>> And this is just the start - there is the awesome devinfo census database. 
>>> Would also love to find ways to map election data into this so that it 
>>> could be useful in the up coming elections. Also if we can map the 
>>> governance architecture (governments, departments, ministries, 
>>> institutions) then it will make for even interesting analysis.
>>>
>>> Since I am a newbie in this field would love to meet more experienced 
>>> folks, get ideas for visualisations, share datasources, tools. If there are 
>>> any similar projects (did not find many so far) please let me know.
>>>
>>> best regards,
>>> Rushabh
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