i think this title is weird...
what revolution are we talking about? while you get solid investigative and
data reporting in the west the funding is disappearing rapidly and the
reporters doing this work are being squeezed. Real local reporting is
almost non existent... most of the US is also
I think the context here is being taken in wrong sense. No one can deny the
role of investigative journalism but at the same time its equally important
to have data backed journalism. In fact, data journalism can actually
complement investigative journalism.
So on this note, I would largely agree
Very excited about this! But the file is not actually downloadable, it
seems. One has to write to fidel castro... has anyone gotten a reply?
Sharad
On 10-Aug-14 1:31 PM, Dilip Damle wrote:
Hi
Just came across this link that seems to have a village shapfile of
India somewhere
Hi Sachin Nisha,
Thanks for responding. Had tried the Crime Info programme but it seems to
be only till 2010. (It also needs a heavy duty comp to run it, my poor
desktop running on XP kept zoning out!) And with all the claims flying back
and forth regarding recent trends in juvenile crime being
Dear Delhi DataMeetniks
CBGA can definitely host DataMeet on August 27th from 2.30 to 6.30 pm. Upto
15 people with laptops can sit comfortably in the meeting room.
Regarding the use of data, excel sheets are available for Union Budget upto
the Interim Budget 2014-15. It is not there for the
We can try to come up with recommendations? And try to get a meeting?
Do you want to start listing items?
Nisha
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Vaishnavi Jayakumar (Inclusive India)
vaishnavi.jayaku...@inclusiveindia.info wrote:
Hi Sachin Nisha,
Thanks for responding. Had tried the
Hey All,
Even though it has been awhile I think it is still important we send this
letter.
Last round of feedback and then we'll send it out!
http://datameet.org/wiki/odclettertoecidraft
Nisha
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Nisha,
How does our request fit with the NDSAP? Does it deal only with Dept of S
T or does it apply to all departments?
http://www.dst.gov.in/nsdi.html :
Global experience has demonstrated convincingly that access to data leads
to breakthroughs in scientific understanding as well as to
That's a really good question.
I can see them making a point that they comply because a great deal of
their data is online in some fashion, just not machine readable or easy to
find. Also they don't have a data controller registered with the NIC:
http://data.gov.in/datacontrollers
It is unclear
Are there no guidelines in existence for what formats need to be used for
data / information sharing? If data is open, isn't it necessarily in open
formats?
Echo that the letter needs to be sent. But Datameet should next prioritise
advocating for standard open formats for information sharing at
for that matter, pdf is an open standard. So are office formats since v2007
(office open xml).
We might want to specifically address the issue of the image-pdf menace.
Kind Regards
Mahroof
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