Dear all, Apologies for this much delayed update.
We last met in end of August at MimirTech office in Green Park. There were several first-time members in the meeting. Sudarshan and Muthu from TISS presented their coastal mapping work, and Gora from MimirTech presented their integrate platform for collecting, archiving, and analysing data, called Fieldata <http://fieldata.org/>. We were supposed to do some agenda setting for the next steps and programmes of the Delhi chapter of DataMeet. We did not advance much on that front. >From the discussion, two specific interests of the group came out clearly: (1) let's go ahead and do some data visualisation, and (2) where can we get data from? The main difficulty in starting data visualisation works, for the group, is lack of availability of data. <data.gov.in> portal surely has a lot of data but we were note sure how much of that is actually usable, or has sufficiently details for analysis. It is still the most obvious place for us to start looking for. It was suggested that we should also speak with non-governmental organisations who have primary data that they might be interested in sharing. If any of these organisations are interested, maybe the DataMeet network will be interested in collaborating on a hackathon -- the organisation brings data, DataMeet brings hackers and researchers. Further, recently there has been a plan floating around to quickly organise a hackathon (hackday?), in early November, with datasets related to the upcoming Delhi election. I have spoken to Dr. Sanjay Kumar of Lokniti < http://www.lokniti.org/index.htm>, who has recently published a book titled 'Changing Electoral Politics in Delhi' < http://www.lokniti.org/changing_electoral_politics_in_delhi_from_caste_to_class.html> about the Delhi Election hackathon idea, and he expressed interest in supporting the effort through Lokniti's datasets and also by mentoring the data analysis processes. He will join us in our next meeting to understand our interests and to plan out the hackathon. Which brings us to the question of the next meeting. Since we were talking about <data.gov.in> portal and its shortcomings in the last meeting, I have requested the NDSAP Project Management Unit (in NIC) to let us organise the next meeting in NIC. Tentative dates are 17th (Thursday) and 18th (Friday) October. Will be held at 5:30 pm. If the NIC plan does not work out, we may hold it either in Akvo office (Green Park) or in Sarai (Civil Lines). Will let you know when I hear from NIC. Bests, sumandro ajantriks.net -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- 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 an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
