Such an amazing dataset of polling booths, thank you for putting this together Raphael.
Have uploaded this to Mapbox if anyone wants to try to visualize it: https://www.mapbox.com/studio/tilesets/planemad.a5gilqlq/ Made a quick map here: https://api.mapbox.com/styles/v1/planemad/cjaxtyftx536p2soarqvjgvje.html?fresh=true&title=true&access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoicGxhbmVtYWQiLCJhIjoiemdYSVVLRSJ9.g3lbg_eN0kztmsfIPxa9MQ On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 5:21 PM, Srinivasan Ramani <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Thej, > > Adding to Raphael's email.. for the article, we picked those polling > booths with urbanity values (null for rural booths), cross tabbed with > polling booth data for 2014 elections and found out urban-rural > classification wise vote share information for BJP and Congress... Rest of > the work was comparing this with 2015 civic polls and the only opinion poll > currently that gives a rural-urban-region wise breakup. > > Best > Srini > > On 8 Dec 2017 3:12 pm, "Raphael Susewind" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Dear Thej, >> >> there is not much of a howto - I took my polling booth locality >> shapefiles (https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/data/2674065) as well as the >> MODIS data that is available in convenient format from Naturalearth >> (https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/data/2674065), put both into QGIS, and >> used their 'Join attributes by location' function. That's that. A >> somewhat more involved processing chain underpins the polling booth >> shapefile as such - all described in the link above... >> >> Srini could probably chip in with more detail on how he ran the analysis >> per se? >> >> Hope that helps, >> Raphael >> >> On 12/08/2017 07:30 AM, Thejesh GN wrote: >> > >> > >> > http://www.thehindu.com/elections/gujarat-2017/voting-trends >> -show-a-clear-rural-urban-divide-for-cong-bjp-in-gujarat >> /article21285328.ece >> > >> > >> > >> > Interesting considering both Susewind and Ramani are part of DataMeet >> > community. It would be great to have an how-to. Either audio or text. >> > >> > >> > Quote from from the article: >> > >> > Social anthropologist Raphael Susewind’s work on Gujarat was used to >> > arrive at this. Dr. Susewind merges NASA’s urban-rural classifications >> > (MODIS data) based on satellite information and the Election >> > <http://www.thehindu.com/tag/1369-1349/election/?utm=bodytag>Commission’s >> polling >> > booth data to identify if a booth is located in a rural or an urban >> > setting. MODIS data classifies urban areas into highly urban, >> > semi-urban, etc. in a scale of 1 to 9 (the lower number corresponds to >> > higher urbanity). Sixty five per cent of the electorate voted in booths >> > in rural areas while the rest in various urban classifications. >> > >> > Thej >> > -- >> > Thejesh GN *⏚* ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್ >> > http://thejeshgn.com >> > GPG ID : 0xBFFC8DD3C06DD6B0 >> > >> > -- >> > 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] >> > <mailto:[email protected]>. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > 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. 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.
