Thanks Samuel for the correction.
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Samuel Rajkumar <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Sailendra, > > This is actually OMR - Optical Mark Recognition, which is much simpler and > less error prone than OCR. > > Regards, > > > On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Sailendra Mishra <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi Guys, >> >> Have you ever considered any OCR based survey? OCR based survey may >> avoid technical and financial constraints (Popular with all major >> examinations conducted in India). Sample here ( >> http://chemmunish.com/answer%20key%20+2%20Full%20Physical.JPG). >> It require one time investment on a good OCR machine (really not very >> expensive and less error-prone). If the machine is a constraint, little >> programming with a fast scanner will do the job. >> >> However, the success with OCR based survey really depends on the >> designing of the survey. >> >> Regards >> Sailendra >> >> >> >> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Gora Mohanty <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> >>> On Oct 30, 2013 10:13 AM, "Samuel Rajkumar" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > >>> > Respectfully disagree, Nisha. >>> > >>> > There really is no problem with spreadsheets being used to analyze >>> data. But collecting data with paper forms and then typing it into the >>> spreadsheet is just very inefficient and error prone. >>> [...] >>> >>> Agreed. Our experience has been that most organisations are immediately >>> appreciative of the benefits of data collection based on smartphones. As >>> you note, Android smartphones are now cheap, and even with the one-time >>> sunk cost of purchasing the devices, our platform is usually cheaper than >>> paper-based methods, besides being less error-prone. SMS can be used if >>> there is a big sensitivity to price. >>> >>> Spreadsheets are also unstructured, and difficult to convert to >>> API-based access, which is needed for any generic analysis methods not >>> customised to a specific data format embodied in the spreadsheet. IMHO, >>> this is the biggest problem with the current data sets on data.gov.in >>> >>> Regards, >>> Gora >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Sailendra Prasanna Mishra >> >> Linkedin: http://in.linkedin.com/in/sailendraprasannamishra >> Twitter: https://twitter.com/sailendram >> Skype: Sailendra.prasannam >> >> "Few people in this world who make mistakes in right direction." >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > -- > 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. > -- Sailendra Prasanna Mishra Linkedin: http://in.linkedin.com/in/sailendraprasannamishra Twitter: https://twitter.com/sailendram Skype: Sailendra.prasannam "Few people in this world who make mistakes in right direction." -- 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.
