Re: [datameet] Map of Lok Sabha Constituencies?

[Srinivasan Ramani]

These are pre-delimitation maps. Post-delimitation maps are not available
except proprietorially (at a very very high cost).


On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Rushabh Mehta rme...@gmail.com wrote:

 Avinash,

 Thanks but did not find the pdfs.

 Indiavotes (http://www.indiavotes.com/maps/pc#) has the best maps, but
 they render server-side - so the option is the screen-capture and trace out
 manually. I am quite surprised no one has made good open domain maps for
 this yet. Maybe a good hackathon project!

 best,
 Rushabh



 W: https://erpnext.com
 T: @rushabh_mehta

 On 11-Oct-2013, at 4:37 PM, Avinash Celestine avinash.celest...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 if you are not looking for georeferenced maps then the pdfs on this site
 might help. you can clean the pdfs in inkscape or adobe illustrator...

 http://ecimaps.gisserver1.nic.in/

 these are the only maps that i known of, in the public domain, which have
 post delimitation parliamentary and assembly constituencies...

 Avinash


 On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Rushabh Mehta rme...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hello,

 I am looking for a map of lok sabha constituencies (I am looking for
 Mumbai specifically, but any other guides will also be helpful) - I have
 checked a lot of sites but the maps are badly made and many are grossly
 wrong.

 If I manage to get hi-res images, I will trace the ploygons (of Mumbai
 atleast) and post them online!

 thanks,
 Rushabh


 W: https://erpnext.com
 T: @rushabh_mehta

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Re: [datameet] Analytics for the Delhi results?

[Srinivasan Ramani]

Thanks...

NOTA numbers for Delhi are very low and practically insignificant. Only
0.5% of the total vote seem to be NOTA and although in some constituencies
where difference between the winner and the loser has been very narrow, I
am not sure NOTA was the reason for victory/defeat. I think including NOTA
would bring about an induced bias on the reason for results.


On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Sreenivas KN aarei...@gmail.com wrote:

 Cool job and very fast.

 Can the NOTA numbers / percentages be added for each constituency
 database. this could be significant since voter percentages who chose NOTA
 can turn the tables... in many places

 good to see it live. many thanks.




 On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Srinivasan Ramani srinivasan...@gmail.com
  wrote:

 Here's a map I created using Google Fusion Tables - 
 http://bit.ly/IWSeCq(Click on constituency to view more details).


 On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Sreenivas KN aarei...@gmail.com wrote:

 hi.

 yes. the tabular format provides for votes polled against each candidate
 and constituency wise. looks like we have to scrape the MIS back to xls or
 some other format and then attach the geocodes already available.

 for ready made maps - maybe somebody from the TV channels / media who
 have already done it and used in the election results discussions yesterday
 (Times NOW had some interesting visualizations) can help.

 else, it is hard wok for now. :)

 If somebody can work on the impact of NOTA (none of the above option) on
 the losers (in terms of margin of loss versus NOTA), it can show some
 interesting patterns. This is crucial since Chhattisgarh saw a 3% NOTA and
 the difference between congress and bjp vote share was less than NOTA and
 New Delhi 1%. this is interesting behavioural science to track.

 regards.





 On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Pukhraj Singh pukh...@gmail.com wrote:

 Konark: Check this
 http://eciresults.ap.nic.in/ConstituencywiseU054.htm?ac=4.

 Sreenivas: I am really keen to know the margins of the runner-ups, and
 other such secondary or tertiary details. Can the ECI's MIS data be culled
 and made more interactive?



 On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Sreenivas KN aarei...@gmail.comwrote:

 the closest we have for now is the results link below. this MIS went
 live at around 8 pm last evening.

 http://eciresults.ap.nic.in/

 nevertheless, not user-friendly

 Hope this helps for starters...



 On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 1:02 PM, konark modi modi.kon...@gmail.comwrote:

 Hi Pukhraj,

 Not for the 2013 elections as I am awaiting for data to be released.

 For previous years I have done some work with the limited data I
 could find :
 http://indiaelecting.com

 Regards
 Konark



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 Greetings!

 Has someone done advanced analytics for the Delhi results? A
 geographical outlay of the vote shares, runner-ups, etc., would be very
 useful.

 Best,
 Pukhraj
 Founder, Abroo
 www.abroo.in


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Re: [datameet] Analytics for the Delhi results?

[Srinivasan Ramani]

Thanks, Vipul! Following your analytics website closely. Best wishes.


On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 9:00 PM, Vipul Mahajan vipulmaha...@gmail.comwrote:

 Srini - Its an excellent article having comprehensive analysis of #AAP. I
 didn't get time to cover all the points you analysed. Good work.

 Vipul
 Website: http://a17.in


 On Sunday, 5 January 2014 19:08:33 UTC+5:30, Srini wrote:

 This is the article I wrote for the EPW -

 http://www.epw.in/web-exclusives/aam-aadmi-partys-
 win-delhi-dissecting-it-through-geographical-information-systems.htm


 On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 4:47 PM, siddharth hande siddhar...@gmail.comwrote:

 Isn't there a pretty detailed gis based analysis out on epw?


 On Sunday, January 5, 2014, Vipul Mahajan wrote:

 On Monday, 9 December 2013 13:00:12 UTC+5:30, Pukhraj Singh  wrote:
  Greetings!
 
 
  Has someone done advanced analytics for the Delhi results? A
 geographical outlay of the vote shares, runner-ups, etc., would be very
 useful.
 
 
  Best,
 
 
  Pukhraj
  Founder, Abroo
  www.abroo.in

 Hi Pukhraj,

 I have published some findings on my website http://analytics17.in

 You can refer couple of analytics on the Delhi Elections 2013 at the
 following link

 http://a17.in/demystifying-delhi-assembly-elections-2013

 Hope this is helpful,
 Vipul
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Re: [datameet] Re: MP/MLA Shapes

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You can find the shapefiles (and their source) for Delhi here -
https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?docid=1C-kJ5hIfw1sNTySyZiVWDLH6qYXGw9GhPwc-ygA#rows:id=1


On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Krishna Prasanth 
akrishnaprasa...@gmail.com wrote:

 I see Mr. Srinivasan Ramani has published an article on AAP where he has
 used post-delimitation AC files. Wonder where he got them from.
 http://www.epw.in/web-exclusives/aam-aadmi-partys-win-delhi-dissecting-it-through-geographical-information-systems.htm


 On Tuesday, January 21, 2014 4:22:58 PM UTC+5:30, Krishna Prasanth wrote:

 Hi everyone

 Has anyone finally managed AC shapefiles post delimitation. Does anyone
 have shapefiles just for Delhi if not other states? I am a novice and I
 would be really glad if someone could help.

 Thank you


 On Saturday, December 14, 2013 2:54:05 PM UTC+5:30, Raphael Susewind
 wrote:

 Hey there - one alternative route is to recreate them from the Polling
 Station Point data that the ECI has recently put up - see here for UP:
 http://data.raphael-susewind.de/content/gis-shapefiles. Unfortunately,
 most states are still not cleaned up, but around the general elections one
 should be able to get decent data - Raphael

 On Saturday, 9 November 2013 19:43:10 UTC+1, Gautam John  wrote:

  Sadly, only from commercial sources.

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Re: [datameet] What kinds of things could we do with Daksh 2014 MP Constituency data?

[Srinivasan Ramani]

Some thoughts -


* The survey of 2.5 lakh would certainly be exhaustive but I personally
feel it could be over-done.  Sampling can be somewhat lesser than that to
yield more focussed results (for easier post-survey processing, I suppose).

* But that said, the survey could seek to not to fully replicate efforts
such as what the CSDS' Lokniti already does. One weakness I believe that
the Lokniti surveys have is that while the questionnaires gauge background
and attitude towards politics variables quite well, they don't necessarily
capture reasons and expectations that much well.

So, for e.g.,if the questionnaire and data can be more than just what are
the reasons you vote for a candidate .. maybe, why do you think your
choice of party/candidate is better than the alternative.. what schemes
have you benefitted from during MP's tenure / or hope to benefit from..
Also, opinions such as who do you think could be an ideal leader? to
reflect opinions on the kind of representatives they would like to have ...
is another thing that would be helpful.

* Beyond political opinion, better knowledge of class backgrounds will also
be useful (in terms of profession, homes, access to facilities etc).


On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Kishore (Narasimhan) Mandyam 
kish...@dakshindia.org wrote:

 Daksh is currently conducting a Nationwide in-field survey about people's
 perceptions about their MPs. We're talking to nearly 2.5 lakh (that's
 250,000!) people in nearly 10,000 locations, in over 500 MP constituencies.
 The math works out to about 500 responses in each Constituency - stratified
 and randomized enough to give an analyst a fairly clear picture of what
 people are thinking. The data consists of 10 demographic details (gender,
 rural/urban resident, religion, occupation, qualification, roof-type,
 assets owned, etc.), four political awareness points (Did you vote..?,
 What are the reasons you vote for a candidate? and so on) and upto 30
 issue-based Performance questions (bijli / sadak / paani kinds of things).
 Respondents tell us how important they think a specific issue is (Low /
 Medium / High) AND how well they think their MP has done in that specific
 issue. We've done thins kind of thing for Karnataka MLAs before and one of
 the more populist results was a series of MLA Scorecards that appeared
 pre-election in Vijay Karnataka, Indian Express and Times of India in 2013.
 With this much-wider survey, though, we're wondering about the various
 other things we could do - from mapping people's perceptions about caste
 and criminality to inferring rural and urban unemployment rates. But that's
 probably the low-hanging fruit. How else could this data be used? Ideas
 welcome!

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Re: [datameet] What kinds of things could we do with Daksh 2014 MP Constituency data?

[Srinivasan Ramani]

Dear Kishore,

Thanks for the clarifications.

Perhaps relatedly, one point I think you could lay emphasis on is to not to
discard those outliers. As this paper by K K Kailash emphasizes, there is
a social story that those outliers could tell -
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.1525/as.2012.52.2.321?uid=3738256uid=2uid=4sid=21103425549517

Best,
Srini


On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Kishore (Narasimhan) Mandyam 
kish...@dakshindia.org wrote:

 Srini, I agree the 500 responses is overkill - 390 would've
 done,statistically. But in our past surveys, we've found 6% to 7% of the
 responses being outliers that we've had to discard. And this time being a
 national effort, we wanted to overdo things, if need be, since re-doing a
 constituency is not really an option.
 The survey does attempt to get some sense of the respondent's
 socio-economic background - age, education, rural/urban, roof-type, basic
 assets, stove-type, etc. And we've debated various ways of asking
 questions, trade-offs between questions that are easily understood and that
 are comprehensively stated, the impact of translation into Hindi and other
 languages, etc. We've also stayed away from incidental assessments of
 things like leadership qualities; instead, we've added a direct option
 about whether the PM Candidate is an issue the respondent uses in deciding
 whom to vote for.
 I want to point out that the intent of this survey is NOT to be a
 barometer of how India will vote but to identify issues that people can
 verbalize (and MPs can use) in relation to their constituencies. The impact
 of having over 2.5 lakh people discussing these issues with their friends
 and family will be significant, we believe, in people making an informed
 choice in voting.
 I'll post a link to the questionnaire later today.




 Kishore.
 ---
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 On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Srinivasan Ramani 
 srinivasan...@gmail.com wrote:

 Some thoughts -


 * The survey of 2.5 lakh would certainly be exhaustive but I personally
 feel it could be over-done.  Sampling can be somewhat lesser than that to
 yield more focussed results (for easier post-survey processing, I suppose).

 * But that said, the survey could seek to not to fully replicate efforts
 such as what the CSDS' Lokniti already does. One weakness I believe that
 the Lokniti surveys have is that while the questionnaires gauge background
 and attitude towards politics variables quite well, they don't necessarily
 capture reasons and expectations that much well.

 So, for e.g.,if the questionnaire and data can be more than just what
 are the reasons you vote for a candidate .. maybe, why do you think your
 choice of party/candidate is better than the alternative.. what schemes
 have you benefitted from during MP's tenure / or hope to benefit from..
 Also, opinions such as who do you think could be an ideal leader? to
 reflect opinions on the kind of representatives they would like to have ...
 is another thing that would be helpful.

 * Beyond political opinion, better knowledge of class backgrounds will
 also be useful (in terms of profession, homes, access to facilities etc).


 On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Kishore (Narasimhan) Mandyam 
 kish...@dakshindia.org wrote:

 Daksh is currently conducting a Nationwide in-field survey about
 people's perceptions about their MPs. We're talking to nearly 2.5 lakh
 (that's 250,000!) people in nearly 10,000 locations, in over 500 MP
 constituencies. The math works out to about 500 responses in each
 Constituency - stratified and randomized enough to give an analyst a fairly
 clear picture of what people are thinking. The data consists of 10
 demographic details (gender, rural/urban resident, religion, occupation,
 qualification, roof-type, assets owned, etc.), four political awareness
 points (Did you vote..?, What are the reasons you vote for a candidate?
 and so on) and upto 30 issue-based Performance questions (bijli / sadak /
 paani kinds of things). Respondents tell us how important they think a
 specific issue is (Low / Medium / High) AND how well they think their MP
 has done in that specific issue. We've done thins kind of thing for
 Karnataka MLAs before and one of the more populist results was a series of
 MLA Scorecards that appeared pre-election in Vijay Karnataka, Indian
 Express and Times of India in 2013. With this much-wider survey, though,
 we're wondering about the various other things we could do - from mapping
 people's perceptions about caste and criminality to inferring rural and
 urban unemployment rates. But that's probably the low-hanging fruit. How
 else could this data be used? Ideas welcome!

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Re: [datameet] Parliamentary Constituency to Assembly Constituency to Ward linkages

[Srinivasan Ramani]

Interjecting in a fantastic conversation... (Kudos to Avinash  Raphael and
others for the efforts to mix/match AC-PC and administrative
jurisdictions)..

There is no direct containment of ACs within a district. Case in point is
Delhi, where ACs dont' fit single districts at all.

Avinash,

Trouble with the kind of political delimitation that you talk about is
that..it doesn't really serve any purpose. With cross-determination of
powers at various levels - blocks, wards, districts under the bureaucracy
vis-a-vis MLAs, changing administrative jurisdictions doesn't make much
sense as much as doing direct gerrymandering for political vote-gaining. In
other words, the powers of a MLA administratively is much too nebulous as
compared to district officials across the bureaucracy and the third tier of
democracy.


On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Avinash Celestine 
avinash.celest...@gmail.com wrote:

 unfortunately you may be right... so thats another layer of complexity...

 On a slightly related note, i have often thought, though i dont know if
 its actually possible in practice, for governments to do some delimitation
 on their own (for political purposes). For instance, if a village/area is
 near the border of a constituency, its possible through an order to bring
 it under the administrative jurisdiction of a neighbouring district. If
 that district is then served by a different AC, you have effectively done
 some delimitation of your own, without actually calling it that

 given that delimitation papers don't specify individual villages in many
 cases, it seems entirely possible to do...

 looking forward to your dataset, Raphael!

 avinash


 On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Raphael Susewind 
 li...@raphael-susewind.de wrote:

 Might well be the rule (I remember having read something like this,
 too), but the reality apparently differs (at least in the EC's own
 data)... Never depend on rules, check them! ;-)

 On 15.03.2014 08:58, Avinash Celestine wrote:
  thanks. the rule, as far as i remember, is that ACs are entirely
  contained within a district boundary. PCs, on the other hand, can span
  across district boundaries.
 
  A
 
 
  On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Raphael Susewind
  li...@raphael-susewind.de mailto:li...@raphael-susewind.de wrote:
 
  Hi Avinash and all,
 
  I realized that each constituency falls within only one district in
 your
  file, but there are constituencies that span several districts and
 vice
  versa (rare, but it happens). I attached a list of those, extracted
 from
  polling-station data on eci-polldaymonitoring.nic.in
  http://eci-polldaymonitoring.nic.in. These are AC only,
  naturally the problem would proliferate if you aggregate to PC,
 
  Hope it helps,
  Raphael
 
  On 15.03.2014 06:57, Avinash Celestine wrote:
   hi
  
   attached an excel with AC-PC-district -states matching along with
  codes
   for AC-PC. I can add census district codes if you like...give me
 a day
   or two
  
   some states are not present - like JK... if someone could add
 those
   that would be great
  
   Avinash
  
  
   On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:27 PM, indro ray
  rayindro@gmail.com mailto:rayindro@gmail.com
   mailto:rayindro@gmail.com mailto:rayindro@gmail.com
  wrote:
  
   Hi Anand (Chitipothu),
   Can I know the source from where you get the polling booth and
  ward
   data? Is it individual for each state and does it provide the
   lat-long for the polling booths?
  
   Thanks,
   Indro
  
  
   On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Anand Chitipothu
   anandol...@gmail.com mailto:anandol...@gmail.com
  mailto:anandol...@gmail.com mailto:anandol...@gmail.com wrote:
  
  
  
   On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 8:19 AM, Siddarth Raman
   thriddas.ano...@gmail.com
  mailto:thriddas.ano...@gmail.com mailto:
 thriddas.ano...@gmail.com
  mailto:thriddas.ano...@gmail.com
   wrote:
  
   Hi All,
  
   In line with the discussions on elections, this is
  something
   I'd started working on a while back (and dropped). I
 was
   essentially hoping for a PC to AC to Ward mapping. As
  far as
   I understand, census 2011 has population data either
  at the
   level of the ward or the district, so if we had to run
  even
   rudimentary data analysis on a parliamentary or
 assembly
   constituency (like total population) accurately, I'm
   guessing we need to go bottom up.
  
   I had started this by attempting to
   convert
 
 http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/CurrentElections/CONSOLIDATED_ORDER%20_ECI%20.pdf
  into
   excel 

Re: [datameet] Re: Looking for KML file of India's parliamentary constituencies, need it urgently!

[Srinivasan Ramani]

Best thing to do is to open the shape files in QGIs.. Simplify geometries a
bit and then convert to kml. The datameet version is very good and
therefore very bulky and doesn't translate too well for web purposes.
On 28 Apr 2014 11:16, Ravi Bajpai bajpair...@gmail.com wrote:

 Ok, so I converted the .shp file to .kml. Fusion Tables refused to parse
 the file. So then I uploaded the ,kml file on Google Drive. When I open it
 on Google Maps from there, the application says it encountered problem with
 some data, and doesn't show anything on the map.

 Please help!

 Best,

 Ravi

 On Sunday, April 27, 2014 7:20:28 PM UTC+5:30, Ravi Bajpai wrote:

 Hey all,

 I work for Hindustan Times here in Delhi. I am trying to prepare backend
 logistics to build an interactive map to be published on our website on the
 election counting day. I need KML file of India's parliamentary
 constituencies, but I can't seem to find it anywhere.

 Please help.

 Thanks a lot.

 Best,

 Ravi Bajpai
 Multimedia Editor
 Hindustan Times

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Re: [datameet] Voter Turnout

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http://www.epw.in/election-specials/high-turnout-ongoing-lok-sabha-polls-what-could-explain-it.html

Check the GIS map there.

Fusion table:
https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?docid=1H-AxWFEYuoc9BZZ_YJSf1RpFz9RDES_w4cCjXfOW


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 Hi,

 I can't find the parliamentary constituency-wise voter turnout numbers for
 Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh. Has anyone compiled them or know of a good
 samaritan who has?

 Thanks and regards

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Re: [datameet] Re: Election Results day

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Hi Rukmini,

The 2009 way was way different.

I hope they host it in the same format as the previous assembly elections.
Considering the elaborate manner they have hosted the results page, I
suspect they will retain the same format. (Although considering they have
CrystalReports on their site on various other public info recently, I don't
know if they have changed).

Wrote some scripts (with help from another hacker @pallih) to download and
extract this data from ECI into csv files.

They are available here:
https://classic.scraperwiki.com/profiles/vrsrini/index.html

Best,
Srini




On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 11:08 PM, gilles.verni...@sciencespo.fr wrote:

 Dear Rukmini,

 It is very likely that the results will come in the same form. I'll be
 collating all the results that day and find it useful to just create the
 format I need, combined with other variables. I'll be happy to share it
 once we get everything. Do send me a reminder, though.
 Best,
 Gilles


 Le mardi 13 mai 2014 19:42:57 UTC+5:30, Rukmini S a écrit :
  Hi, all. Would anyone who worked on GE-2009 remember if the results came
 in on the ECI Results page in the same format as (for example) the 2013
 Assembly Election results? i.e. with a state-wise page that gives you the
 winner, with the constituency's unique number, like so:
 http://eciresults.nic.in/StatewiseS26.htm?st=S26
  And a constituency-wise detailed page without the constituency number,
 like so: http://eciresults.nic.in/ConstituencywiseS2653.htm?ac=53
 
 
  Is this also how the format you'd expect the 2014 results to come in?
 
 
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Re: [datameet] Re: Election Results day

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Dear Gilles,

Yes. They are the most accurate and authentic (but of course). The media
channels come up with vastly different numbers and sometimes even random
numbers. I wish someone on those various panels call them out on it but it
never happens. Last time in 2009, some important constituency numbers -
such as Sivaganga were shrouded in major controversy partially because news
channels jumped the gun in announcing the winner, which turned out to be
inaccurate.

Besides, the news channels never come up with vote shares early enough.

One good thing about the news channels and their websites is that the ECI
site is relatively traffic-free because of the slight lag and slowness of
verified updates.

Best,
Srini


On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 8:20 AM, Gilles VERNIERS 
gilles.verni...@sciencespo.fr wrote:

 There is a lag. They publish results seat by seats. We'll get a fairly
 complete picture by the evening, that is if their result website does not
 crash, under the number of hits.

 Gilles

 Sent from my iPhone

 On 14 mai 2014, at 06:48, Venkatraman S venka...@gmail.com wrote:

 Are the results published online immediately or is their a lag?

 -V


 On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 11:15 PM, Srinivasan Ramani 
 srinivasan...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi Rukmini,

 The 2009 way was way different.

 I hope they host it in the same format as the previous assembly
 elections. Considering the elaborate manner they have hosted the results
 page, I suspect they will retain the same format. (Although considering
 they have CrystalReports on their site on various other public info
 recently, I don't know if they have changed).

 Wrote some scripts (with help from another hacker @pallih) to download
 and extract this data from ECI into csv files.

 They are available here:
 https://classic.scraperwiki.com/profiles/vrsrini/index.html

 Best,
 Srini




 On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 11:08 PM, gilles.verni...@sciencespo.fr wrote:

 Dear Rukmini,

 It is very likely that the results will come in the same form. I'll be
 collating all the results that day and find it useful to just create the
 format I need, combined with other variables. I'll be happy to share it
 once we get everything. Do send me a reminder, though.
 Best,
 Gilles


 Le mardi 13 mai 2014 19:42:57 UTC+5:30, Rukmini S a écrit :
  Hi, all. Would anyone who worked on GE-2009 remember if the results
 came in on the ECI Results page in the same format as (for example) the
 2013 Assembly Election results? i.e. with a state-wise page that gives you
 the winner, with the constituency's unique number, like so:
 http://eciresults.nic.in/StatewiseS26.htm?st=S26
  And a constituency-wise detailed page without the constituency number,
 like so: http://eciresults.nic.in/ConstituencywiseS2653.htm?ac=53
 
 
  Is this also how the format you'd expect the 2014 results to come in?
 
 
  Thanks,
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Re: [datameet] Voter Turnout

[Srinivasan Ramani]

Thanks, Avinash.. Have added the WB Numbers.. Will add the AP numbers
rightaway. (Am sharing the file with edit permissions to you).

Best
Srini


On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Avinash Celestine 
avinash.celest...@gmail.com wrote:

 attaching an excel of turnout for AP and West bengal. wasnt sure
 whether i could directly add to the fusion table

 source for AP is here. it was just uploaded i think


 http://www.ceoandhra.nic.in/GE_2014/Andhra%20Pradesh%20-%20Voter%20Turn%20out%20Information.pdf

 for WB it is not online as far as i know. got a fellow journo to fax
 us the data from Kolkata.

 :-))

 On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Ravi Krishnan
 mintstocksrepor...@gmail.com wrote:
  Many thanks, Srinivasan
 
  Regards
  Ravi
 
 
  On 8 May 2014 13:32, Srinivasan Ramani srinivasan...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 
 
 http://www.epw.in/election-specials/high-turnout-ongoing-lok-sabha-polls-what-could-explain-it.html
 
  Check the GIS map there.
 
  Fusion table:
 
 https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?docid=1H-AxWFEYuoc9BZZ_YJSf1RpFz9RDES_w4cCjXfOW
 
 
  On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Ravi Krishnan
  mintstocksrepor...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  Hi,
 
  I can't find the parliamentary constituency-wise voter turnout numbers
  for Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh. Has anyone compiled them or know
 of a
  good samaritan who has?
 
  Thanks and regards
 
  Ravi
 
 
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Re: [datameet] Urban constituencies

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Dear Raphael,

Apropos MODIS' urban ranking, can you please clarify the following? A
higher rank (say 3 over 9) suggests greater urbanisation, right? Or is it
the other way around? 9 suggests greater urbanisation as compared to 3?

Thanks,
Srini


On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Raphael Susewind li...@raphael-susewind.de
 wrote:

 Hi Ravi,

 I did the matching against MODIS data, but don't have electorate count
 at hand, so no percentages of urban electorate population yet. But I am
 sure you can take it further from the CSV here:

 http://www.raphael-susewind.de/ruralurban.csv.tgz

 This table shows rural/urban as well as urban rank (an indicator MODIS
 uses for how urban is it?) across India on booth level. Be aware that
 not all booths are covered by the matching though (and some states,
 notably Uttarakhand, are terribly inaccurate), so you have to aggregate
 wisely.

 For fun, I have also added a list of urban booth count share for
 parliamentary constituencies, which should give you a very rough idea of
 electorate share as well, since all booths are supposed to have a
 similar number of electors in them.

 Hope it is useful,
 Raphael

 On 13.05.2014 10:53, Ravi Krishnan wrote:
  Hi Raphael,
 
  Thanks for your prompt answer. While there is not any official list, I
  am told that the EC gives the percentage of urban population in each
  constituency. I couldn't find it in their web site though.
 
  As for the method you suggest, I just don't have the technical skills to
  pull that off.
 
  Thanks and regards
 
  Ravi
 
 
  On 13 May 2014 14:04, Raphael Susewind li...@raphael-susewind.de
  mailto:li...@raphael-susewind.de wrote:
 
  Hi Ravi,
 
  there are various options here, depending on what you want.
 
  I am not aware of an official list of rural/urban constituencies as
  such. But booths are classified as either urban or rural, at least on
  the electoral rolls, and probably elsewhere, too. This could be used
 in
  a simple counting game to see where more than a certain threshold of
 the
  electorate votes in urban areas according to the official ECI
  definition.
 
  If you are less interested in the official definition, you could try
 a
  GIS-based alternative and overlay the polling booth point layer
  (http://dx.doi.org/10.4119/unibi/2674065) with the MODIS rural/urban
  polygon by NaturalEarth, which is quite accurate in terms of
 habitation
  pattern irrespective of their official designation
  (
 http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/50m-cultural-vectors/50m-urban-areas/
 ).
 
  Best,
  Raphael
 
  On 13.05.2014 10:08, Ravi Krishnan wrote:
 
   Hi,
  
   Does anyone have a list of urban constituencies - defined here as
  those
   with over 75% urban population?
  
   Thanks and regards
  
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Re: [datameet] Re: temperature data for cities - historical

[Srinivasan Ramani]

The National Data Centre of the IMD has daily data from 1951 onwards till
present.

http://www.imdpune.gov.in/research/ndc/ndc_index.html

Don't think if they have hosted this online, but I suppose you can contact
them to provide the dataset for your purposes.


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avinash.celest...@gmail.com wrote:

 thanks. Yes, I was looking for daily data.

 rgds

 A


 On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Pratap Vardhan pratap...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 Not quite what you'd want. Here
 http://www.imd.gov.in/section/nhac/mean/110_new.htm you would
 find Monthly Mean Maximum  Minimum temperature and monthly total rainfall
 of important stations for the period 1901-2000


 On Thursday, June 19, 2014 3:13:10 PM UTC+5:30, Avinash Celestine wrote:

 Does anyone know of a source of daily temperature data (max,min) for
 cities which goes back a few years?

 Most of the daily data only goes back a couple of months, and those
 which are a couple of years old are monthly averages.

 regards

 Avinash

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Re: [datameet] PC to AC

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Dear Rukmini,

Sandip Sukhtankar used to maintain pre-delimitation data in the form of
shapefiles (mapping assembly constituencies to PCs). A decent approximation
of ECI data.

Its available here: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~sandip/data.html#maps

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Rukmini S rukmini.shriniva...@gmail.com
wrote:

 Fantastic, thanks v much Avinash.

 On Thursday, October 16, 2014 9:39:32 AM UTC+5:30, Avinash Celestine wrote:

 hi rukmini

 depends on which state you need. attached is an excel of pre delimitation
 constituencies, but not for all states. i had put it together couple of
 years back.

 if the state you want isint there, then the older parts of the EC site
 could provide info you need. you'll have to poke around the site a bit.
 fyi, the first ever election using the new delimited areas, as far as i
 remember, was the gujarat election of december 2007, so any election before
 that would use pre delimitation areas.

 rgds

 A

 On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Rukmini S rukmini.s...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 Hi, would anyone have the pre-2008 (i.e. pre-delimitation) parliamentary
 constituency-wise break-up of assembly constituencies?

 Thanks,
 Rukmini

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Re: [datameet] Municipal Spatial Data

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Chennai as well, please!

There are a few repositories on the city on the web, but the quality is a
bit of an issue.

Thanks,
Srinivasan

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 12:35 PM, Devdatta Tengshe 
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I've created a repository on Github for all Municipal Spatial Data that
> I've converted/Scraped over the years.
>
> You can access it at: https://github.com/datameet/Municipal_Spatial_Data
>
> I'll add some more cities over the weekend (Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore), but
> if you have any Municipal spatial data or wards boundaries of other cities,
> please feel free to send a PR, or get in touch with me.
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Re: [datameet] Re: Demonetization related data

[Srinivasan Ramani]

I am a bit confused too. The release doesn't say if the data sources are
consistent in the past and for November and hereon.

On 3 Dec 2016 1:22 p.m., "Sagar"  wrote:

> They're releasing data on a daily basis as per the press release you've
> shared Srikanth but they've forgotten to release the October statistics
> yet!
>
> Interestingly from comparing November data to September, August, July
> etc., doesnt seem that demonetisation has resulted in significant changes
> in electronic payment systems usage. One would assume that there would be a
> huge spike in Prepaid Payment Instruments and in usage of Credit and Debit
> Cards at POS
>
> Sagar
>
> On Friday, 2 December 2016 18:55:25 UTC+5:30, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote:
>>
>> Check https://rbi.org.in/Scripts/BS_PressReleaseDisplay.aspx?prid=38779
>>
>> On 2 December 2016 at 12:23, srinivas kodali  wrote:
>>
>>> There is some routinely collected data of customs for the last 50 days
>>> until they shut down the portal. Its raw data, you will need to write a
>>> script to analyze them.
>>>
>>> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Z1-Xr7IW4cQ25leWNXMHZycjg
>>> /view?usp=sharing
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Srinivas Kodali
>>> www.lostprogrammer.com
>>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 11:50 AM, Kushal Shah  wrote:
>>>
 Hi,

 Has anyone collected data for the exercise?

 Regards,
 Kushal

 On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 6:17 PM, srinivas kodali 
 wrote:

> The following sources have in/direct economic/banking/trade
> data/indicators available in India.
>
> 1. Statistics on ATM's, Cards, Online Transfers published by NCPI/RBI
> http://www.npci.org.in/stats.aspx
> 2. RBI data warehouse with many economic indicators
> https://dbie.rbi.org.in/DBIE/dbie.rbi?site=home
> 3. Export Import Trade raw data from customs dept.
> https://icegate.gov.in/DailyList/DL
>
> you probably need to read about most of the economic indicators as
> they are not relatively straight forward and the relationships are quite
> complex.
>
> Regards,
> Srinivas Kodali
> www.lostprogrammer.com
>
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 5:20 AM, Thejesh GN 
> wrote:
>
>> I have created a hackpad to collaborate.
>>
>> https://datameet.hackpad.com/datameet-Demonetization-related
>> -data-1zvnAv01ugE
>>
>> Regards,
>> Thej
>> --
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>> http://thejeshgn.com
>>
>> On 27-Nov-2016 5:21 PM, "Curran Kelleher" 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Nikhil,
>>>
>>> One interesting angle would be the number of deaths related to
>>> demonetization. I have seen a number of news articles regarding apparent
>>> suicides and elderly having medical problems in bank queues. This 
>>> dataset
>>> would be extremely powerful, and could be gleaned if several folks
>>> collaborated to pull this data out of the news. A line chart could be 
>>> made
>>> of the sum total of the deaths over time if we have a date for each 
>>> event.
>>> Also we could answer the question, till now how many deaths have been
>>> related to demonetization? A simple Google search for
>>> "demonetization deaths"
>>> 
>>> provides a starting point for gathering this data (death toll seems to 
>>> vary
>>> from 33 to 55 till now).
>>>
>>> Would be interesting to have columns in a data table like the
>>> following for each death incident:
>>>
>>>- Date
>>>- City
>>>- State
>>>- (lat, long)
>>>- Original reference URL
>>>- Description
>>>- Male/Female
>>>- Age
>>>
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Curran
>>>
>>> On Saturday, November 26, 2016 at 12:04:28 PM UTC+5:30, Nikhil VJ
>>> wrote:

 Hi Friends,

 It would be good to collect data relating to the ongoing
 demonetization, especially geographic related. I'll start with some
 basic questions; please add in yours too.

 Prefix: Might there be any kind of data on...

 1. Quantities of old notes being given in at banks etc, and where
 they're being collected.

 2. Quantities of new notes being dispatched.

 3. Mechanisms of dispatching : is the branch-wise allocation
 decision
 happening at central level, or at a decentralized level? How is it
 being decided what quantities will go where?

 4. Are below-Rs.100 denominations also being printed in any
 increased quantity?

 These questions are simple, but if we can get answers disaggregated

Re: [datameet] Is there any credible statistical analysis and extrapolation of Demography of Indian population

[Srinivasan Ramani]

A good starting point for the subject is this oped in the Indian Express -

http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/myth-of-muslim-growth/

On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 4:00 PM, Dilip Damle  wrote:

> HI,
>
> I am sick of the messages I keep getting even from good people I know
> about the Muslim population being a majority in future.
>
> This forms a basis for so many other things that are inferred including
> that every Hindu should produce 4 children and what not.
>
> I would like to see a real analysis to understand and/o /counter the
> arguments.
>
> Regards
>
> Dilip Damle
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Re: [datameet] Data Deleted: PM Jan Dhan Yojana data archive

[Srinivasan Ramani]

Thanks Srinivas!

On 8 Sep 2017 8:11 am, "srinivas kodali"  wrote:

> The PMJDY data on bank accounts has been removed from the website
> https://www.pmjdy.gov.in/archive. I archived it here.
>
> https://github.com/iotakodali/pmjdy
>
> These are currently pdfs, I may convert it into csv's later. If someone
> can fork it and convert it, please share back here
>
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Re: [datameet] Visualization

[Srinivasan Ramani]

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"  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
> > 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
> > --
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Fwd: Re: [datameet] Re: Require Information on Division of Andhra Pradesh

[Srinivasan Ramani]

This is from The Hindu's resident editor in AP.
-- Forwarded message --
From: "VenkateshWarlu K" <war...@gmail.com>
Date: 2 Jan 2018 7:56 pm
Subject: Re: [datameet] Re: Require Information on Division of Andhra
Pradesh
To: "Srinivasan Ramani" <srinivasan...@gmail.com>
Cc:

Dear Srini,


have this one from the Andhra Pradesh's East Godavari District Revenue
Officer.

All seven mandals have been merged into Andhra Pradesh. Of the seven, four
mandals-- Kunavaram, V R Puram, Chintoor and Nellipaka-- now form part of
Rampachodavaram Assembly constituency in East Godavari district. The
remaining three, Kukunuru, Burgampadu and Velerupadu form part of Polavaram
Assembly constituency in West Godavari district.

best
warlu


On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 7:03 PM, Srinivasan Ramani <srinivasan...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Warlu-sir
>
> Just got a response. This is fine, right?
>
> Best,
> Srini
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Rakesh <rakesh.dubb...@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 7:37 AM
> Subject: [datameet] Re: Require Information on Division of Andhra Pradesh
> To: datameet <datameet@googlegroups.com>
>
>
> Here is some clarity
>
> 1. Not the entire 7 mandals have been transferred to AP from Telangana.
> Only a few villages that are to be submerged by the Polavaram project have
> been transferred.  Refer to the amendment text of the AP Reorganization Act
>
> *Mandals of Kukunoor, Velairpadu and Bhurgampadu but not including its
> revenue villages of Pinapaka,  Morampalli Banzar, Bhurgampad,
> Nagineniprolu, Krishnasagar, Tekula, Sarapaka, Iravendi, Mothepattinagar,
> Uppusaka, Sompalli and Nakripeta under the Palvancha Revenue Division, and
> the Mandals of Chintoor, Kunavaram, Vararamachandrapuram and Bhadrachalam
> but not including the revenue village of Bhadrachalam under the
> Bhadrachalam Revenue Division*
>
> Even in Bhadrachalam, the Bhadrachalam town is in Telangana while some
> villages in that mandal are in AP.
>
> 2. Hence a substantial geography of what you mentioned in the picture is
> still in Telangana. Hence it has not affected the Assembly constituencies.
> The reorganization might happen before the 2019 assembly polls. But for
> now, there is no change in the assembly constituencies.
>
>
> On Sunday, 31 December 2017 11:28:56 UTC+5:30, Devdatta Tengshe wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm looking to connect with someone who has some knowledge about how the
>> Assembly Constituencies were divided between Andhra Pradesh & Telangana.
>>
>> What I'm trying to do is to update our Maps Repo, and get the Assembly
>> Constituency & Lok Sabha Constituency Data to reflect the current situation
>> for these states.
>>
>> There is this list [1] of 119 constituencies which I can use, but I'm
>> confused about a small area in Khammam District.
>>
>> On 11 July 2014, the Lok Sabha approved a bill transferring seven mandals
>> of Khammam district back to Andhra Pradesh [2]
>>
>> This area is a part of 3 Assembly Constituencies:
>>
>> [image: Inline image 1]
>>
>> (Yellow are Telangana AC, Green are Andhra Pradesh AC & Red is the
>> Updated Telangana Boundary)
>>
>>
>>
>> What happened to these 3 Assembly constituencies? How were they divided?
>> In Which Constituency of Andhra Pradesh was this area added?
>>
>> And information on this topic would be highly appreciated.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> [1]: http://ceotelangana.nic.in/List%20of%20Elected%20Members/MLA
>> s%20Addresses%20(Telangana)%20-%2024.05.2016.pdf
>> [2]: http://164.100.24.219/BillsTexts/LSBillTexts/asintroduced/15
>> _2014_LS_Eng.pdf
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Devdatta
>>
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