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Sent from Windows Mail From: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, 20 May 2014 05:59 To: Digest recipients Today's topic summary Group: http://groups.google.com/group/datameet/topics Updates to the Discussion Guidelines [1 Update] Logo Contest Voting! [2 Updates] logo contest last day! [1 Update] Covering Indian Elections 2014 [1 Update] Security Issues with the Voter List [4 Updates] Election Expenses [2 Updates] Digest for [email protected] - 25 updates in 6 topics [1 Update] Election Survey [1 Update] Indian Elections 2014 ECI Datasets [1 Update] Indian Elections 2014 - ECI Datasets [3 Updates] Updates to the Discussion Guidelines Nisha Thompson <[email protected]> May 19 07:39PM -0400 Hey All, I want to say WELCOME to the new people! And let everyone know that there has been some updates to the discussion guidelines. http://datameet.org/discussions/ New Guidelines: No Job Listings Events have to have a data angle All first posts have to be approved by the moderator to scan for spam and off topic subjects. I want to say we haven't had many problems on this list, everyone here stays on topic and is very polite which has made this list a great place to share ideas and questions. So thank you to everyone for being great people. If you have any thoughts on the above guidelines or want to add more please reply and let us know. Thanks, Nisha and Thej -- Nisha Thompson DataMeet.org [email protected] skype: nishaqt mobile: 962-061-2245 Logo Contest Voting! Raman Chima <[email protected]> May 19 11:42PM +0530 6 and then 2. Saket Bisani <[email protected]> May 19 11:57PM +0530 8 logo contest last day! Nisha Thompson <[email protected]> May 19 08:55PM +0530 Please go vote on this thread! https://groups.google.com/d/topic/datameet/bNbwXCvMcP8/discussion Nisha -- Nisha Thompson DataMeet.org [email protected] skype: nishaqt mobile: 962-061-2245 Covering Indian Elections 2014 Thejesh GN <[email protected]> May 19 06:05PM +0530 - This elections produced lot of news online and on social media - I tried cover (gather and filter) the most important news items - You can see it on a timeline at thejeshgn.com/indiavotes2014 - There are about 200+ stories all together - As usual if you think I have missed any you can add it https://github.com/thejeshgn/indiavotes2014 - Data is in the format of data.json, it can be used to say the same story in different ways, Let me know if you have any interesting ideas. We can join hands. Have fun Thanks, Thej -- Thejesh GN *⏚* ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್ http://thejeshgn.com GPG ID : 0xBFFC8DD3C06DD6B0 Security Issues with the Voter List Gautam John <[email protected]> May 19 10:36AM +0530 Something I read today: http://www.medianama.com/2014/05/223-modak-marketing-election-voter-india/ Snehashish Ghosh <[email protected]> May 19 10:58AM +0530 Dear Gautam, Thank you. This is very interesting. I wrote a piece on this issue right after the failed Google-ECI deal in February <http://goo.gl/e9Xea0> The UK approach seems to be a good one. In UK there are two voter lists - "full list" and "edited list". You can choose to be removed from the edited list during the time of registration or at anytime thereafter. The edited list is available in the public domain and the full list is safeguarded by purpose limitation and UK Data Protection Law. ~Snehashish Raphael Susewind <[email protected]> May 19 07:41AM +0200 Dear Gautam, thanks for the link - a discussion overdue. After some discussion a few weeks back on this list, the ECI at least introduced rate limiting to electoralsearch.in (though probably for QoS reasons rather than privacy). Chhattisgarh is the only state with a CAPTCHA to prevent mass downloading, while Uttarakhand does not have the rolls online at all. Rolls for all other states are freely available, though there are some technical challenges in terms of extracting data from corrupted PDFs (but this CAN be done). While I am happy to be able to use electoral roll data for academic research, this commodification was exactly what I worried about from the beginning. Let's hope ECI changes its access policies soon - though arguably the damage is done, with an "almost population register" online for long enough for all to scrape and use. But then privacy laws that prohibit what is technically possible could at least limit damage. My five cents, Raphael On 19.05.2014 07:28, Snehashish Ghosh wrote: -- Raphael Susewind | BGHS Bielefeld University, CSASP University of Oxford Snail Mail | Melanchthonstr. 4a, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany Web & Twitter | http://www.raphael-susewind.de | @RaphaelSusewind Please do consider http://www.gnupg.org for encryption (key id A5ED49AE) Dilip Damle <[email protected]> May 18 11:39PM -0700 HI YES, I think the way the Data access is provided gives transparency but it can be misused. I had downloaded Goa and Delhi pdfs several years back. Then explained to someone on a social network how he/she can be tracked and Stalked. PIPL.com can help you get complete name even if your name is hidden on some networks. MTNL/BSNL Phone directory can get your number Voter pdfs can give your address and this can be done on a mass scale. My opinion is they should make pdfs after Rasterising the pages in a kind of Odd and jaggered font So that they are readable by Humans but not easily by Machines Rgds Dilip Damle On Friday, April 11, 2014 9:55:03 AM UTC+5:30, Devdatta Tengshe wrote: Election Expenses Venkatraman S <[email protected]> May 19 11:16AM +0530 Any leads on the expenses per candidate? Thejesh GN <[email protected]> May 19 11:27AM +0530 I think it will take some more time to release that data. Candidates have to submit it first. Thej -- Thejesh GN *⏚* ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್ http://thejeshgn.com GPG ID : 0xBFFC8DD3C06DD6B0 Digest for [email protected] - 25 updates in 6 topics Prathamesh Murkute <[email protected]> May 15 07:06PM +0530 9 -- Prathamesh P. Murkute Don't print this Email unless you really need to - Save Trees. Election Survey Kannamma Raman <[email protected]> May 13 09:50AM -0700 I am a faculty in the Dept. of Civics and Politics, University of Mumbai. We are studying the use of social media in elections. We are tracking why people follow political leaders on twitter. We have prepared a survey to map this. We would like to request those on twitter to take the survey and also tweet the link on Twitter. The link http://kwiksurveys.com/app/rendersurvey.asp?sid=d4ale7swbafpuyu335208&refer= Thanks Kannamma Raman Indian Elections 2014 ECI Datasets Pratap Vardhan <[email protected]> May 16 10:44AM -0700 Hi All, First-cut data scrapped from http://eciresults.nic.in/ hosted at https://github.com/pratapvardhan/Elections-India-2014 Do play with the data and contribute with your insights if any. This would eventually be moved to https://github.com/datameet/india-election-data As of now, we have data for 1) Candidate-wise votes list 2) Cconstituency-wise winners & runners list Thanks, Pratap Vardhan Indian Elections 2014 - ECI Datasets Dilip Damle <[email protected]> May 18 09:02PM -0700 Hello to all, Thanks for this data. I was wondering if there is a way to Uniquely identify the Contestant If someone wants to create a track record of the contestants over period then this is important Just name is not sufficient. I tried to look for Duplicate Name&Party combinations Including independents there are 97 duplicate combinations Excluding independents there are 16 7 candidates named as Chandu Lal Sahu contested from Chhattisgarh, Mahasamund Since they are from same constituency there are obviously different individuals. However there is no way to differentiate multiple persons with same name and Same person contesting in two constituencies. Any way out? Rgds Dilip Damle On Saturday, May 17, 2014 8:40:52 PM UTC+5:30, Pratap Vardhan wrote: Venkatraman S <[email protected]> May 19 09:38AM +0530 > If someone wants to create a track record of the contestants over period > then this is important > Just name is not sufficient. Can use the candidate_id from myneta.info . (also it includes S/O information) Chandrashekhar Raman <[email protected]> May 19 09:48AM +0530 This will be a tough nut to crack with just the name.. especially because fielding 'dummy candidates' with same or very similar names is a fairly common practice.. Used to split votes.. As employed by the veteran ajit jogi in mahasamund.. Maybe eci will make some kind of identification number mandatory in future, or they have already. -- 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 an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. 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