Re: [datameet] Analytics for the Delhi results?

2013-12-09 Thread Pukhraj Singh
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

Re: [datameet] Analytics for the Delhi results?

2013-12-09 Thread Sreenivas KN
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

Re: [datameet] Analytics for the Delhi results?

2013-12-09 Thread 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

Re: [datameet] Analytics for the Delhi results?

2013-12-09 Thread Sreenivas KN
Thanks. very informative. On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Srinivasan Ramani srinivasan...@gmail.comwrote: The NOTA % from my calculations show as 0.64% for Delhi overall. There are only four constituencies where NOTA% exceeds margin of victory. Details are here - *constituency* *votes*

Re: [datameet] Analytics for the Delhi results?

2013-12-09 Thread Pavan Srinath
Do see Karthik Shashidhar's piece on this in Mint that just came out: http://www.livemint.com/Specials/t5687TxRCE3aKu4svfHXrK/Assembly-elections-Analysing-NOTA.html On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Sreenivas KN aarei...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks. very informative. On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 6:22

Re: [datameet] how to crawl Indian newspaper sites

2013-12-09 Thread Debamitro Chakraborti
I know of newsrack (in fact I created the NREGA topic on the site long long ago) but what I am looking for is a crawler of past records which I can use for my own research. Maybe the code behind newsrack can be reused to build such a crawler -- but I didn't see it anywhere on the site. Anyway,

Re: [datameet] how to crawl Indian newspaper sites

2013-12-09 Thread Arvind Batra
Hi Debamitro, Couple of months ago, me and few of my friends built a media monitoring tool to track what traditional media was writing about Aam Aadmi Party. Our work can be seen here - http://aap.mediatrack.in As part of the process, we wrote a crawler that crawls Hindu, TOI, HT and three other