Thanks, Nikhil. I'll follow up your very helpful suggestions. best wishes, Peter
On Monday, April 22, 2019 at 9:21:17 PM UTC+9:30, [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.
