Hi Peter, This sure is interesting! Mindmap tools might be one way to fit for your needs.
Links: Freemind: http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Download One site that's converting mindmaps to json : https://gojs.net/latest/samples/mindMap.html A site listing various mind-mapping solutions: https://www.mind-mapping.org/web-based-mindmappers/details.html There, found a "DRichard Mindmaps" solution that works in browser and saves the data to a ,json file : https://www.mindmaps.app/# There's some other tools too. This site lets one create json from simple text : http://objgen.com/json?demo=true "JSON" is a common data standard built for accommodating infinite hierarchies and variable fields which most programming languages can read and work with. Related share: A few years ago I was working on a budget data project with some crazy varying levels of hierarchy, and after scouring the net I finally made a script of my own to bring it to json format: https://nikhilvj.co.in/files/selfrefCSV_2_hierarchJSON.html It helps to convert a data in tabular structure (which humans can make), where each row has a "parent", into JSON format (which programs want but is difficult to make manually). The tabular format was easier to put together. Its caveat though is that it can assign only one parent to a data point. And you have to keep making a new column for each attribute. But hey this thing can take the data with it when it goes into json :) -- Cheers, Nikhil VJ, Pune, India http://nikhilvj.co.in On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 5:21 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > This is at the other end of the dial from recent postings about 2019 > parliamentary constituencies. > In the past, I've done research which required linking districts as they > were in British India (from the Imperial Gazetteer of 1886) and mapping > them on to districts as they were in 1991. That allows me to 'reconfigure' > data to match it with contemporary state boundaries. More recently. I've > also mapped districts as reported in the Census of India, 2011 on to the > idiosyncratic districts (different spellings, district numbers, etc.) used > by the National Crime Records Bureau, so that I can calculate crime, etc. > rates. > I keep accumulating messy scraps of notes on what the district is now > called (Tamilnadu and UP are particularly active in renaming districts, it > seems). > I was hoping that there might be a software solution which would allow me > to consolidate my scraps into a form which might save someone else the > hours I've spent trying to trace the genealogy of districts. I was also > hoping to be able to generate something like this hand-made genealogy of > the districts of British Berar. I've looked at genealogical software; there > are no 'surnames' and it always wants 'mothers' and 'fathers'. > Taxonomic/phylogenic software assumes you don't know what is related to > what. Organizational charts are rather simple-minded. > There are lots of things missing from the genealogy I've appended: > alternative spellings; district headquarter towns; census numbers for > different censuses, dates of creation, consolidation etc. > So: I'm wondering a) if this is a project worth persisting with, and if so > b) is there an easier, better approach that I might adopt. > Thanks, > Peter > > -- > 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.
