Re: [datameet] [GeoBLR] Tejas Pande on Urban Poverty and Mobility - October 16, 6pm-8pm

2014-10-08 Thread Nisha Thompson
HI Meera, We'll definitely share the presentation. But are also thinkign about livestreaming it or at least recording it. Nisha On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Meera Mehta mmehta1...@hotmail.com wrote: Since we are not in Bangalore - it will not be possible to join.. But would be great if

[datameet] Re: Data on Houses, Household Amenities Assets - 2001

2014-10-08 Thread Sumit Mishra
Jyothi, The ward-level dataset that you are looking for wasn't released by the ORGI for the Census, 2001. You may try contacting one of their data centers (located at Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune JNU, New Delhi) for more dis-aggregated data though. Regards, Sumit On

[datameet] Request for Data of Parliament constituencies of India

2014-10-08 Thread Pasumarthi
Hi , I am looking for a service rather data which gives latitude longitude data for different parliament constituencies of India -Suresh -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message

Re: [datameet] Re: Data on Houses, Household Amenities Assets - 2001

2014-10-08 Thread Nisha Thompson
Hey Jyothi, I think Thej has some of this data at OPen Bangalore http://openbangalore.org/available-data/ Nisha On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Sumit Mishra sumitm.mis...@gmail.com wrote: Jyothi, The ward-level dataset that you are looking for wasn't released by the ORGI for the Census,

Re: [datameet] Voters List and Privacy Issues

2014-10-08 Thread Snehashish Ghosh
Hi Milind, In the past, I have written about this issue. See, http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/electoral-databases-2013-privacy-and-security-concerns Also see, Ocean Project http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/research/ocean/ Best, Snehashish On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 8:36 AM, Emkay

Re: [datameet] Re: Data on Houses, Household Amenities Assets - 2001

2014-10-08 Thread Sharad Lele
Nisha, I checked the openbangalore page, but don't see any data w.r.t. household assets etc at ward level. Could you or Thejesh point us to the exact dataset? Thanks Sharad On Wednesday, October 8, 2014 5:18:49 PM UTC+5:30, Nisha Thompson wrote: Hey Jyothi, I think Thej has some of this

Re: [datameet] Voters List and Privacy Issues

2014-10-08 Thread Emkay
Thanks, Snehashish, A responsible officer of ECI told me that the rolls are published in the open so that people can detect fraudulent entries in their neighbourhood and lodge a complaint so that bogus registrations can be removed. That stands to reason. But the threat to security is also

Re: [datameet] Voters List and Privacy Issues

2014-10-08 Thread Shafeeq Rahman
It is not only voter list, several government schemes also have the household level information like MANREGA, PDS distribution etc.. I think transparency is more important than privacy. Regards, Shafeeq On Thursday, 9 October 2014 10:04:05 UTC+5:30, Emkay wrote: Thanks, Snehashish, A