[datameet] Re: [Bangalore] Liberate Bangalore PDFs

2015-05-15 Thread Nikhil VJ
This tool is very helpful in extracting tables from PDFs: Tabula : http://tabula.technology Helped me open up a 600 page budget book! http://tiny.cc/punebudget2015 On Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at 1:45:40 PM UTC+5:30, Anant Gupta wrote: > > That will do. Thanks > > On Monday, March 9, 2015 at 3:19:

[datameet] Fwd: translatewiki.net newsletter: Translation Rally time!

2015-05-16 Thread Nikhil VJ
-- Cheers, Nikhil +91-966-583-1250 Pune, India Self-designed learner at Swaraj University http://nikhilsheth.blogspot.in -- Forwarded message -- From: translatewiki.net newsletter Date: Sun, May 17, 2015 at 12:51 AM Subject: translatewiki.net ne

Re: [datameet] How to get polling station/booth lat-long data for an assembly constituency

2015-05-18 Thread Nikhil VJ
7VhstzsikCrgurmgGkop9SlozQ> > > - raw data was scraped at a time > when psleci did not have a copyright disclaimer... > > Best > Raphael > > On 15.05.2015 20:23, Nikhil VJ wrote: > > Not sure about the legality of the data itself, but sharing a general > >

Re: [datameet] How to get polling station/booth lat-long data for an assembly constituency

2015-05-19 Thread Nikhil VJ
p. On 5/18/15, Nikhil VJ wrote: > Thanks Raphael for that link again! I'd actually downloaded that set some > months back and didn't know enough about mapping at the time, had hit some > road-blocks and abandoned it. Now went back and was able to get through to > what I want

Re: [datameet] How to get polling station/booth lat-long data for an assembly constituency

2015-05-20 Thread Nikhil VJ
can setup a crowdsourced project there so people can contribute. > > > Thej > -- > Thejesh GN *⏚* ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್ > http://thejeshgn.com > GPG ID : 0xBFFC8DD3C06DD6B0 > > On 19 May 2015 at 16:26, Nikhil VJ wrote: > >> Hi guys, >> >> Can we clone http:/

[datameet] Digitization of land records

2015-05-26 Thread Nikhil VJ
Just saw this line in a news article: *Apr 28:* Land records of southwest district digitized & put online Found more here: http://www.justprop.com/forum/68-news/42529-property-records-online-in-delhi >From that, this website: http://www.dlrc.delhigovt.nic.in/ The platform doesn't have mapping i

[datameet] Polling booth/station locations cleanup

2015-05-30 Thread Nikhil VJ
from shp to geojson). Links: Pincode project : http://pincode.datameet.org/ Dataset: http://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/data/2674065 -- Cheers, Nikhil +91-966-583-1250 Pune, India Self-designed learner at Swaraj University <http://www.swarajuniversity.org> http://nikhilsheth.blogspot.in On We

Re: [datameet] Query

2015-06-02 Thread Nikhil VJ
Hi Ali, I haven't had the chance to use it yet, but Plotly seems like a good tool to visualize data in many ways. https://plot.ly/feed/ On 6/2/15, Ali Mohammad wrote: > Hi Guys > I'm an energy and climate change enthusiast. > It would be great if anyone could tell me which data science tools i

Re: [datameet] Regarding Village Level location cordinates

2015-06-07 Thread Nikhil VJ
Wow this website is amazing.. the interface for drilling down to sub-district (visual shape select) is totally worth replicating for so many similar projects, like polling booth location. Or even just geography learning. Well, I have no clue how one would go about it, but it would be awesome if so

Re: [datameet] Any statistics on how many Delhi constables are married?

2015-06-07 Thread Nikhil VJ
Hi Avantika, Just thinking openly : Maybe if the police have a dedicated health/life insurance cover mechanism, data might come from there? Or if there is a support group for wives or children of people in the force, then you could get numbers from there. On 5/29/15, Avantika Mehta wrote: > Hi,

[datameet] Municipal budget related

2015-06-09 Thread Nikhil VJ
Hi friends, We may have a chance here in Pune for doing something with the municipal budget structuring and presentation. Just as an exploratory question, do you know any open source platforms, tools that can help one structure / manage / present a city's budget? -- Cheers, Nikhil +91-966-583-12

Re: [datameet] Daily Weather data from 1979 to 2014 on a global scale

2015-06-15 Thread Nikhil VJ
This is great! Thanks for sharing! I downloaded for my city region.. will be exploring the data in coming days. I'm adding this resource to the hackpad on Weather Hackathon: https://datameet.hackpad.com/Weather-Hackathon-vYSXGVYknjO -- Cheers, Nikhil +91-966-583-1250 Pune, India Self-designed lea

[datameet] Crowdfunding for OpenStreetMap.org

2015-06-23 Thread Nikhil VJ
Hi Friends, http://donate.openstreetmap.org/server2015/#about On OSM as an open-source, creative commons alternative to google maps: Researchers cannot access aggregated data using google maps, like say all the traffic lights in a particular area. On OSM they can. Legally, people aren't allowed t

Re: [datameet] openstreetmap.in!

2015-06-26 Thread Nikhil VJ
, May 25, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Sajjad Anwar wrote: > Hey Nikhil - > > On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 7:52 AM, Nikhil VJ wrote: > >> Hi Sajjad, this is great. >> >> 1. Is this tile layer free to use in printed maps? >> > > Yes. OpenStreetMap requires attribution though

Re: [datameet] Support our Pincode Project by Receiving a Postcard :)

2015-06-28 Thread Nikhil VJ
Got the post-card, filled the second form :D :D @Anand, here's a script that'll... https://gist.github.com/answerquest/b6a97ed4251564bb5840 Find latitude, longitude of a list of addresses using Google Geocoder, in a timed loop. CSV and HTML output with link to location. On 6/5/15, Anand Chitipo

Re: [datameet] Re: India Census 2011 Ward Number and Ward Name Mapping

2015-07-02 Thread Nikhil VJ
Hi Sanjib, Could you please share a copy of the ward-level census data or a link of where you got it? At least for my city we have areas listing per ward so we can use that. On 6/30/15, Sumit wrote: > I remember posting the geo-directory dataset for all units including wards. > > This link may

Re: [datameet] Re: Census 2011 - Geographical Code Directory - List of Towns and Villages in India

2015-07-02 Thread Nikhil VJ
Can anyone convert it to a more widely known format like CSV (if it's flat) or JSON or XML (if hierarchical) ? On Tuesday, May 26, 2015 at 10:27:45 PM UTC+5:30, Amiruddin Nagri wrote: > > Thanks. > > Regards, > Amiruddin Nagri > > On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 9:35 PM, Eric Dodge > wrote: > >> Python

Re: [datameet] Re: India Census 2011 Ward Number and Ward Name Mapping

2015-07-02 Thread Nikhil VJ
Dr. Sarath Guttikunda* > *http://www.urbanemissions.info <http://www.urbanemissions.info>* > > On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Nikhil VJ wrote: > >> Hi Sanjib, >> >> Could you please share a copy of the ward-level census data or a link >> of where you got it? At least for m

[datameet] Fwd: 8 reasons why Good Governance will not come by building on Aadhaar

2015-07-02 Thread Nikhil VJ
Related to questions about big data and its potential misuses. -- Cheers, Nikhil +91-966-583-1250 Pune, India Self-designed learner at Swaraj University http://nikhilsheth.blogspot.in -- Forwarded message -- From: Yatish Devadiga Date: Thu, Ju

[datameet] [Pune] Crowdsourcing: Play match-the-following and help build Pune's bus route information data!

2015-07-03 Thread Nikhil VJ
Hi Friends, Some of you whom I've put in Bcc had signed up on the Datameet Pune interest form. While Craig is working on how to organize meetups (found a venue, planning dates etc), I'd like to share a collaborative task with you. Here's something that some volunteer groups (ImproveMyCity, Pravas

Re: [datameet] [Pune] Crowdsourcing: Play match-the-following and help build Pune's bus route information data!

2015-07-04 Thread Nikhil VJ
, Nikhil +91-966-583-1250 Pune, India Self-designed learner at Swaraj University <http://www.swarajuniversity.org> http://nikhilsheth.blogspot.in On 7/4/15, Devdatta Tengshe wrote: > Hi Nikhil, > > I'll strongly suggest that we stay on GTFS as a standard. > > There are many app

Re: [datameet] [Pune] Crowdsourcing: Play match-the-following and help build Pune's bus route information data!

2015-07-04 Thread Nikhil VJ
r clarification on understanding the data and the requirements, and if something awesome can come out from this network then I'll see to it that there is official recognition from the authorities for the efforts made. I'm actually working out plans for a design contest that PMPML could announ

Re: [datameet] Re: Draft requirements document for Design Contest for open sourced Bus Routes Management System for PMPML

2015-07-05 Thread Nikhil VJ
enance and export of data using >> this format. So, the contest should also encourage customization of one >> such app for PMPML. >> >> >> On Sunday, 5 July 2015 21:17:26 UTC+5:30, Nikhil VJ wrote: >>> >>> Hi Friends, >>> >>> Kindly

Re: [datameet] Re: 8 reasons why Good Governance will not come by building on Aadhaar

2015-07-06 Thread Nikhil VJ
A previous article that really brought out the misuses and misinterpretations happening, including a tables-turning on UIDAI itself : https://in.news.yahoo.com/three-supreme-court-orders-later--what-s-the-deal-with-aadhaar-094316180.html Three Supreme Court Orders Later, What's the Deal with Aadha

Re: [datameet] Draft requirements document for Design Contest for open sourced Bus Routes Management System for PMPML

2015-07-07 Thread Nikhil VJ
s a contest is a lot of > work. Would they have to design the entire web interface or just parts of > it? > > Nisa > > On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 11:47 AM, Nikhil VJ wrote: > >> Hi Friends, >> >> Kindly take a look at this and suggest if you have any ideas. I'

[datameet] Wordpress.org translation to Indian languages

2015-07-10 Thread Nikhil VJ
See https://datameet.hackpad.com/Localizing-Wordpress.org-CMS-to-Indian-languages-o8qjvlnw6eV - *Start Translating* Create an account on wordpress.org, sign in and then you can enter the translation projects. https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/ https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp/4

[datameet] Mapping official maps of Pune

2015-07-11 Thread Nikhil VJ
Hi Friends, Take a look! http://nikhilvj.techydudes.net/files/overlap.html Work in progress.. we have lots more maps to load on to this (interested? hop on! it's just point-and-click with a li

[datameet] Re: Mapping official maps of Pune

2015-07-11 Thread Nikhil VJ
er we were able to get a lot done. -- Cheers, Nikhil +91-966-583-1250 Pune, India Self-designed learner at Swaraj University <http://www.swarajuniversity.org> http://nikhilsheth.blogspot.in On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Nikhil VJ wrote: > Hi Friends, > >

[datameet] Invitation to a collaborative commenting exercise on draft Waste Management rules released by GoI for public feedback

2015-07-11 Thread Nikhil VJ
l) I had to drop as they couldn't be converted. Pls see http://envfor.nic.in/division/reportguidelines for the original docs. -- Cheers, Nikhil +91-966-583-1250 Pune, India Self-designed learner at Swaraj University <http://www.swarajuniversity.org> http://nikhilsheth.blogspot.in On Fri, Jul 10

[datameet] Re: Invitation to a collaborative commenting exercise on draft Waste Management rules released by GoI for public feedback

2015-07-11 Thread Nikhil VJ
ldn't be converted. Pls see http://envfor.nic.in/division/reportguidelines for the original docs. -- Cheers, Nikhil +91-966-583-1250 Pune, India Self-designed learner at Swaraj University <http://www.swarajuniversity.org> http://nikhilsheth.blogspot.in > On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at

[datameet] Pune: Contest for Smart City ideas

2015-07-14 Thread Nikhil VJ
http://smartcity.punecorporation.org/ Please read email below to get explanation in Marathi. -- Cheers, Nikhil -- Forwarded message -- From: Yatish Devadiga Date: 2015-07-14 12:34 GMT+05:30 Subject: पुण्यात 'स्मार्ट सिटी'साठी 'स्मार्ट बक्षिसे' To: पुण्यात 'स्मार्ट सिटी'साठी 'स्

Re: [datameet] [Pune] Crowdsourcing: Play match-the-following and help build Pune's bus route information data!

2015-07-18 Thread Nikhil VJ
the formulas will lookup stopcode, etc. Meanwhile, the structure is now ready, for anyone interested, to program GTFS creation, or any other way of extracting info, like XML/JSON. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ppFJeb7Dnj6-1yvniH2Q6exQFzK6fM0wsZNn4XZIvkI On 7/4/15, Nikhil VJ wrote: > (

[datameet] Shirish needs a debian live usb at bangalore by tonight for bar camp

2015-07-20 Thread Nikhil VJ
hi friends, writing on behalf of shirish, who's catching a flight right now from pune to bangalore to go to a Bar Camp which is a week long residential conference / unconference of techies (will share link later). Shirish needs a debian linux live usb to demo there for some session/training he's d

[datameet] Data visualization of municipal annual budget

2015-08-10 Thread Nikhil VJ
Hi Friends, Would you be interested in collaborating to visualize a city's budget data? Here's something I drummed up last year when analyzing electrical related expenditures, in a very quick-and-dirty d3.js mashup: http://nikhilsheth.techydudes.net/files/sunburst%20hover%20details%20csv.html T

Re: [datameet] Data visualization of municipal annual budget

2015-08-14 Thread Nikhil VJ
vani team will be happy to work, for Bangalore > budget. Janaagraha has already done some work cleaning up the data. > Shree will ping you offline to discuss this more... > > Best Regds, Meera > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Nikhil VJ wrote: > >> Hi Friends, >>

Re: [datameet] SOS: Need help extracting data

2015-08-19 Thread Nikhil VJ
Is your target text in text form or image form? If text: http://tabula.technology/ If image: http://www.i2ocr.com/free-online-kannada-ocr If image with handwritten text : interns :P -- Cheers, Nikhil +91-966-583-1250 Pune, India Self-designed learner at Swaraj University

Re: [datameet] Regarding Village Level location cordinates

2015-08-28 Thread Nikhil VJ
.com/zerolevel/Locations > > > > I hope you will find it interesting and star it as well. ;) > > > > mohit. > > > > On Sunday, 7 June 2015 17:49:00 UTC+5:30, Nikhil VJ wrote: > >> > >> Wow this website is amazing.. the interface for drilling

[datameet] Looking for a missing link in mobile based field survey data visualization / analysis

2015-09-17 Thread Nikhil VJ
Hi Friends, This is regarding mobile-based field surveys. I'm using the "ODK Collect" app on mobile, and a free account on "ona.io" as the backend/dashboard/server. I want to make a direct connection between our inputs (forms filled on mobile phones) and the output (a map showing the collected da

Re: [datameet] Looking for a missing link in mobile based field survey data visualization / analysis

2015-09-17 Thread Nikhil VJ
> > You need to setup ODK Aggregate with a postgres/mysql database, and you > should push your data to this instance of ODK Aggregate. This data will be > written to a set of tables, and then the only missing link is to write up a > service which will Query this Database, and return your

Re: [datameet] Looking for a missing link in mobile based field survey data visualization / analysis

2015-09-18 Thread Nikhil VJ
regate. This data will >> be >> written to a set of tables, and then the only missing link is to write up >> a >> service which will Query this Database, and return your data back as >> JSON. >> >> Let me know if you require any further details. >>

Re: [datameet] Parsing Voters List : Glyph to Unicode issue

2015-09-19 Thread Nikhil VJ
Hi Siddharth, Sorry I missed this earlier. In April this year I converted a budget PDF to excel that had Marathi content, in legacy font (similar to ShreeDev). It was two-step : first extract to excel, and then replace all the text after passing through a legacy font to unicode converter (an HTML

Re: [datameet] Parsing Voters List : Glyph to Unicode issue

2015-09-29 Thread Nikhil VJ
caling up would require vast resources. > > Let us know if you find an alternative (though I am sceptical), > > Best, > Raphael > > On 19.09.2015 11:51, Nikhil VJ wrote: > > Hi Siddharth, > > > > Sorry I missed this earlier. > > In April this year I con

[datameet] Singapore govt's new open data website

2015-09-29 Thread Nikhil VJ
Just caught wind of this on twitter: Singapore govt's new open data website http://beta.data.gov.sg/ It's running on http://ckan.org/ Would you know if anyone tried something of this sort out for an Indian use case? Anybody working on it? -- Cheers, Nikhil +91-966-583-1250 Pune, India Self-des

[datameet] Using crowdcrafting.org for crowdsourcing your repetitive data tasks

2015-10-21 Thread Nikhil VJ
es if you find it cool! -- Cheers, Nikhil +91-966-583-1250 Pune, India Self-designed learner at Swaraj University <http://www.swarajuniversity.org> http://nikhilsheth.blogspot.in -- Forwarded message -- From: Nikhil VJ Date: Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 6:41 PM Subject: 1-minute C

[datameet] Re: Using crowdcrafting.org for crowdsourcing your repetitive data tasks

2015-10-22 Thread Nikhil VJ
Hi Friends, Sorry, I'd forgotten the easiest way to share the source code: https://gist.github.com/answerquest/57cbec9f56258f0d84f4 I've put on github Gist the Task Presenter code and a sample tasks CSV of my pune-budget-localization project. These are the only two inputs really required (technic

[datameet] Re: Using crowdcrafting.org for crowdsourcing your repetitive data tasks

2015-11-01 Thread Nikhil VJ
e-simpleqa/ -- -- Cheers, Nikhil +91-966-583-1250 Pune, India Self-designed learner at Swaraj University <http://www.swarajuniversity.org> http://nikhilsheth.blogspot.in On 10/22/15, Nikhil VJ wrote: > Hi Friends, > > Sorry, I'd forgotten the easiest way to share the source cod

Re: [datameet] Re: Improving India road data on OpenStreetMap

2015-12-01 Thread Nikhil VJ
When OSM was starting up and android phones with onboard GPS weren't yet commonplace, I saw OSM enthusiasts like the folks at Homi Bhabha Centre for Science using GPS devices to record the trace on their journey and then transferring the trace to computer and uploading the trace to OSM. Now when G

Re: [datameet] Re: Chennai Rains and Data

2015-12-13 Thread Nikhil VJ
Hi, is anybody working on an Ushahidi-style or Haiti-style effort to map relief needs and supplies? Like, places where materials have arrived. -- Cheers, Nikhil +91-966-583-1250 Pune, India Self-designed learner at Swaraj University http://nikhilsheth.blogspot.in

Re: [datameet] air pollution data for delhi as csv

2016-01-01 Thread Nikhil VJ
Also check out this citizen powered air quality monitoring effort: http://breathe.indiaspend.org/ Cheers, Nikhil VJ +91 966 583 1250 http://nikhilsheth.blogspot.in On Jan 1, 2016 9:14 AM, "Sarath Guttikunda" wrote: > Dear All, > > good morning. > > For PM2.5, DPCC sta

Re: [datameet] Re: Reg Pune Digitized map and ESR

2016-01-31 Thread Nikhil VJ
Hi Craig, Anu, Check this out: http://sahbhag.in/files/pune-census2011.html Uses Craig's map; Cycles through choropleth maps of 2011 census data for Pune. (I don't know what exactly the column headers meant so have kept them as is.. if you know, tell me) On 1/31/16, Craig Dsouza wrote: > Hi An

Re: [datameet] Bhuvan Derived Data Copyright Question (Shapefile data)

2016-02-03 Thread Nikhil VJ
Hi, Also (with a real lawyer's help of course) look into these angles: Is the govt of India a privately held company or is it owned by the people of India? Is data whose assimilation and curation was paid for using taxes collected from citizens of India.. then not the property of the citizens of

Re: [datameet] Data visualization of municipal annual budget

2016-02-14 Thread Nikhil VJ
, Nikhil +91-966-583-1250 Pune, India Self-designed learner at Swaraj University <http://www.swarajuniversity.org> http://nikhilsheth.blogspot.in On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Nikhil VJ wrote: > Hi Friends, > > Great responses from many places (got many private replies

Re: [datameet] Re: Data visualization of municipal annual budget

2016-02-19 Thread Nikhil VJ
hanks for sharing. > > On Monday, August 10, 2015 at 12:41:24 PM UTC+5:30, Nikhil VJ wrote: >> >> Hi Friends, >> >> Would you be interested in collaborating to visualize a city's budget >> data? >> >> Here's something I drummed up last year when a

Re: [datameet] Tips on cleaning your data for mapping

2016-04-05 Thread Nikhil VJ
Hi Satyarupa, Offering a few tips: 1. Bring your data to a flat excel table. Avoid having any merged cells in the header.. title each column like "Fatalities_2011", "Fatalities_2013" if you have levels of titles. Keep the headers in the first row only; from row 2 onwards your data should start.

[datameet] Seeking advice for tree mapping using OSM

2016-04-06 Thread Nikhil VJ
Hi Friends, I want to find out how to bring integration into OSM or similar in tree mapping / tree census exercises. Some non-negotiable requirements are: 1. The data we pool in remains extractable for all, the way we can granularly extract OSM data using overpass-turbo; doesn't get locked

[datameet] [data] Pune annual budget 2016-17 SC (final) expenditures extract/database for analysis

2016-04-12 Thread Nikhil VJ
Hi friends, *Pune annual budget 2016-17 SC (final) expenditures extract/database* Download it: http://ourpuneourbudget.in/files/data/puneMCbudget2016-17/pune_2016-17_SC_budget_expnds_db_12Apr16.xlsx -> this is also linked to from our website, http://ourpuneourbudget.in (which is linked to from P

[datameet] SEZ and land acquisition data

2016-04-25 Thread Nikhil VJ
Hi Friends, Any clue as to where we could get data, particularly geographic data, on land acquisitions, SEZs etc? Related links: http://rightsandresources.org/en/news/as-modi-government-in-india-proceeds-with-economic-development-agenda-new-map-tracking-land-disputes-shows-disturbing-rise-in-con

Re: [datameet] Re: Project to make managing bus routes much easier for any bus authority : looking for a few creative coders

2016-05-16 Thread Nikhil VJ
7;1000XD'][['stop_lat', > 'stop_lon']].to_csv('myroute.csv', index=False) > > # open the csv and pass the values to google map > !cat myroute.csv > > This can also be achieved using php+mysql but using python-pandas makes it > extensible and

[datameet] Help with schools location data extracting

2016-05-21 Thread Nikhil VJ
Hi friends, is their any way to extract data from such a flash player platform...as follows... schoolgis.nic.in --regards, Nikhil VJ Pune -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because

[datameet] Pune: Bootcamp 25-26 june, Hackathon 8-10 july on public transit and water supply

2016-06-16 Thread Nikhil VJ
http://codenow.in/ Smart City Maker's Fest 2016, Pune -- Cheers, Nikhil +91-966-583-1250 Pune, India Self-designed learner at Swaraj University http://nikhilsheth.blogspot.in -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us

Re: [datameet] Re: List of the Mohalla Clinics in Delhi

2016-06-25 Thread Nikhil VJ
Awesome work, Pratap! I'm not getting how to submit a pull request here.. I made a few corrections that were most immediately visible. But more will be needed. See here: https://gist.github.com/answerquest/c056cd9038fae4cf07f09e65b9741e15/revisions I tried google-mapping some of the addresses, b

Re: [datameet] Digitising Ward Maps of Bhubaneswar, Odisha. [Work in Progress] Information about Bhubaneswar

2016-08-24 Thread Nikhil VJ
Great work, pratyuksh! Devdatta, not simple at all, but wow, total Inside Man type ;) Scraping off a google maps backend was how i'd gotten the pune maps too: first from an ngo's website (i did beg first!), and then more accurate data from a pune corporation's map that was there to show polling b

[datameet] Pune chapter meetup, 3 sep @2pm

2016-08-31 Thread Nikhil VJ
Hi, Just relaying this to the larger group to reach pune-based folks we might have missed. We have a new more centrally located venue @SB rd. Please see the meetup invite for details. To keep in touch for more datameet activities in pune, pls contact us on p...@datameet.org . -Nikhil VJ

Re: [datameet] Re: Census 2011 village-level data

2016-10-07 Thread Nikhil VJ
http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/dchb/DCHB.html On 10/7/16, Sumit wrote: > Hello, > > I have complied the village level data. The datasets are also publicly > available on the Census of India website. If you're looking for something > specific, you can email me. > > Warm Regards, > Sumit

[datameet] Fwd: call for abstract submission, FOSS4G ASIA 2017- Jan 26-29, Hyderabad

2016-10-20 Thread Nikhil VJ
- From: subodh kulkarni Date: Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 5:55 PM Subject: Fwd: [Foss4ga.discuss] FOSS4G ASIA 2017- Deadline for submission of abstracts extended To: Nikhil VJ , Craig Dsouza , Jinda Sandbhor , datameet Pune Dear Friends, As we all are working with the similar mission, we should explor

Re: [datameet] Re: Pincode Boundaries of India

2016-10-22 Thread Nikhil VJ
Just my two cents regarding data with google maps.. if they're anyways never going to share it openly (pls correct me if I'm wrong), why bother verifying it? We anyways won't be able to publish it in any of our work. Better to spend time & energy on helping improve sources that are or have a potent

[datameet] Land records data scraping

2016-10-24 Thread Nikhil VJ
Hi, I'm looking at Maharashtra's land records portal : https://mahabhulekh.maharashtra.gov.in .. and wondering if it's possible to scrape data from here? Will share a workflow: choose 7/12 (७/१२) > select any जिल्हा > तालुका > गाव select शोध : सर्वे नंबर / गट नंबर (first option) type 1 in th

Re: [datameet] Land records data scraping

2016-10-26 Thread Nikhil VJ
> <https://blog.rstudio.org/2014/11/24/rvest-easy-web-scraping-with-r/>. We > were able to do some basic scraping on goodreads with this. See if this > fits your needs. > > Thanks, > Ankit > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 10:09 PM, Nikhil VJ wrote: > >> Hi, >> &

Re: [datameet] Land records data scraping

2016-11-13 Thread Nikhil VJ
site, but this aggregating was the next step and has really simplified the process of inspecting multiple records at once. -Nikhil On 10/27/16, Nikhil VJ wrote: > Hi Ankit, > > Thanks for the R lead! I checked it out.. am already doing something > like it using some quick shell/bash

Re: [datameet] Land records data scraping

2016-11-14 Thread Nikhil VJ
el free to check -Nikhil On 11/14/16, Pradeep Bhatt wrote: > This is very interesting. > > Can this be used for commercial purposes? Where I can read about data > policy on this? > > Regards, > Pradeep > > On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Nikhil VJ wrote: > >

[datameet] Demonetization related data

2016-11-25 Thread Nikhil VJ
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'

[datameet] Fwd: Continuing the Maharashtra Village mapping exercise

2016-12-07 Thread Nikhil VJ
Just copying here in case there's folks in Pune not on the Pune chapter's list. We're meeting up this Saturday. Pls see details below and write back to Craig on p...@datameet.org to RSVP (venue is a corporate office so list of participants needs to be shared with them in advance). -- Cheers, Nikhi

Re: [datameet] Fwd: Continuing the Maharashtra Village mapping exercise

2016-12-09 Thread Nikhil VJ
0dn2 > pmqlnhd8fuo.html?fresh=true&title=true&access_token=pk.eyJ > 1IjoicGxhbmVtYWQiLCJhIjoiemdYSVVLRSJ9.g3lbg_eN0kztmsfIPxa9MQ > #7.13/18.874/74.447 > > On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 7:06 AM, Nikhil VJ wrote: > >> Just copying here in case there's folks in Pune not o

Re: [datameet] Fwd: Continuing the Maharashtra Village mapping exercise

2016-12-10 Thread Nikhil VJ
Hi Friends, We're live: http://youtu.be/_w1De4KqshI On 12/10/16, Nikhil VJ wrote: > Hi Arun, > > Thanks! I hadn't looked into the possibility of mapbox holding and showing > the large amount of data. It wasn't possible with carto. Do you think this > could be ta

Re: [datameet] Adoption of HTTPS across Digital India services.

2016-12-27 Thread Nikhil VJ
Hi konark, Could you share any pointers to how we can adopt https? From what i've read so far, there is a cost to it. I manage some websites and wanted to bring one to https but could not understand how. I do have access to cpanel and am well versed with operating it. The website is on a wordpress

Re: [datameet] Activities in Mumbai

2017-03-06 Thread Nikhil VJ
Hi Kedar, Ritvij, In Pune we have been working on some things and meeting up (though not as often as I'd like but hope to change that soon). We are working on some maharashtra level stuff (village boundaries!) that you might find interesting too. We could meet up online sometime or do a join sitti

Re: [datameet] Plan expenditure progress of Central Govt

2017-03-08 Thread Nikhil VJ
Suggestion : how about starting a repository on github called "india governance reforms" or so and filing bugs / feature requests describing these current flaws and suggesting, inviting changes? These little facts like the government not sharing actual expenditure data whereas it happens as a matt

Re: [datameet] Home for All our Maps

2017-03-17 Thread Nikhil VJ
Great stuff! Have filed a request under municipal maps for including the latest (2017) Pune map. -- -- Cheers, Nikhil +91-966-583-1250 Pune, India Self-designed learner at Swaraj University Blog | Contribute

Re: [datameet] Data on Tax

2017-03-29 Thread Nikhil VJ
Hi Thej, "Tax avoidance" or so might be better terms to use, else technically even the Dandi Salt Satyagraha was an act of "cheating" and will be perceived by future generations as so instead of the protest against an invasive and exploitative big government that it really was. There's no guarante

[datameet] DataMeet Pune meetup on Sat 1st April 4-6pm

2017-03-29 Thread Nikhil VJ
Cordially inviting you to DataMeet Pune Meetup 1st April 2017, 4-6pm Agenda: Informal catching up after a long time, and talking about various ways to work on public data and make it more accessible, useful. Venue: Seed Infotech Ltd., 'Panchasheel', 42/16, Erandawana, SEED Infotech Lane, Off Karve

[datameet] query on data re-organizing : 2-dimensional to single flow

2017-03-29 Thread Nikhil VJ
Subject: Fwd: GIS GeoOdk Data To: Nikhil VJ I forget to send you the same May be useful for someone in your network... -- Abhijeet Kamble Project Officer (MGB) Centre for Environment Education Central Regional Cell Pinewood Apartment S No 233/1/2, Vidhate Colony, Baner, Pune 411 067 Landmark

[datameet] Re: query on data re-organizing : 2-dimensional to single flow

2017-03-29 Thread Nikhil VJ
Hi again, PFA a diagram that should explain the desired task more clearly. On 3/29/17, Nikhil VJ wrote: > Hi friends, > > Data re-organizing query : How can we reformat this data (see attached > excel) so that a visualizer can read it and render it as a graph with > dates in x

Re: [datameet] Fwd: [ooni-talk] Examining internet shutdowns through public data sources

2017-03-29 Thread Nikhil VJ
Hi Sibi, Interesting project! Can you try and get state-wise breakdown for India? While I don't think the internet Kill-Switch has been used on the whole country yet (pls correct me if wrong), blocking internet in J&K has been common and since 2014 we have also been seeing tweets coming from Guja

Re: [datameet] Re: query on data re-organizing : 2-dimensional to single flow

2017-03-29 Thread Nikhil VJ
Hi Pratap, They don't tolerate non-coders in stackoverflow :P Thanks for sharing the script! Now can someone put it up online somewhere ;) This one is presently beyond my scope of programming skills, but IMHO falls within Datameet's mandate because a very large amount of the data we want to work

[datameet] Re: Delimited map of delhi ward wise updated in January this year

2017-04-01 Thread Nikhil VJ
nd method. For the first I'm sure a web search will give some walkthroughs. http://datameet.org/2016/08/12/guide-on-digitizing-static-maps/ -Nikhil VJ Pune On Saturday, April 1, 2017 at 6:27:51 PM UTC+5:30, Akshay Agrawal wrote: > > hi, > > I am looking for the shapefile o

[datameet] Fwd: mapping the Water Cup

2017-04-05 Thread Nikhil VJ
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Re: [datameet] Re: query on data re-organizing : 2-dimensional to single flow

2017-04-10 Thread Nikhil VJ
> > Regards > > Dilip Damle > > You can find me hanging around at this place most often > https://www.quora.com/profile/Dilip-Damle > > > > On Wednesday, March 29, 2017 at 6:51:59 PM UTC+5:30, Nikhil VJ wrote: >> >> Hi again, >> >> PFA a diagram th

[datameet] location data of ST bus stands in Maharashtra (MSRTC)

2017-07-19 Thread Nikhil VJ
want their lat-long locations. Any clues? -- -- Cheers, Nikhil VJ +91-966-583-1250 Pune / Mandangad, India DataMeet Pune chapter <https://datameet-pune.github.io/ <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fdatameet-pune.github.io%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNECBztMobQwaO-VA26CfRDE

Re: [datameet] location data of ST bus stands in Maharashtra (MSRTC)

2017-07-19 Thread Nikhil VJ
scribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- Cheers, Nikhil VJ +91-966-583-1250 Pune / Mandangad, India DataMeet Pune chapter <https://datameet-p

Re: [datameet] Need some Guidence on Parsing Electoral Roles.

2017-08-20 Thread Nikhil VJ
e in Unicode. Here's an issue I filed in the Tabula project related to this, and they fixed it for the legacy fonts extraction at least. https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula/issues/303 -- Cheers, Nikhil VJ +91-966-583-1250 Pune / Mandangad, India DataMeet Pune chapter <https://datame

Re: [datameet] India GIS Data Update/ Questions

2017-08-24 Thread Nikhil VJ
.github.io/wiki/Maharashtra-Villages-mapping -- Cheers, Nikhil VJ +91-966-583-1250 Pune / Mandangad, India DataMeet Pune chapter <https://datameet-pune.github.io/> Self-designed learner at Swaraj University <http://www.swarajuniversity.org> Blog <http://nikhilsheth.blogspot.in>

Re: [datameet] India GIS Data Update/ Questions

2017-08-24 Thread Nikhil VJ
Hi Justin. Even we got shapefile only; worked in QGIS with it. I don't know if there's supposed to be more raw stuff than that. This shapefile had both 2001 and 2011 census codes. The link I gave will lead you to the files if you give it a little time :D -- Cheers, Nikhil VJ +91-966-583

Re: [datameet] Re: India GIS Data Update/ Questions

2017-08-24 Thread Nikhil VJ
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[datameet] Pune cycle plan data and maps

2017-08-24 Thread Nikhil VJ
-pune/datameet-pune.github.io/wiki/Synchronized-Map-browsing -- -- Cheers, Nikhil VJ +91-966-583-1250 Pune / Mandangad, India DataMeet Pune chapter <https://datameet-pune.github.io/> Self-designed learner at Swaraj University <http://www.swarajuniversity.org> Blog <http://nik

Re: [datameet] Need some Guidence on Parsing Electoral Roles.

2017-09-03 Thread Nikhil VJ
s referenced in my GitHub scripts (see > below), namely in most versions of pdf2list.pl, where pdf-table-convert > is called towards the bottom and the output then fed to tesseract... > > Best, > Raphael > > On 08/20/2017 11:00 AM, Nikhil VJ wrote: >> Hi Devdatta, >>

Re: [datameet] Re: Need some Guidence on Parsing Electoral Roles.

2017-09-07 Thread Nikhil VJ
Thanks for sharing this Vishal. The workaround used in the case shared in the doc was to extract the unique ID numbers that were not in Devnagri and then use them to look up and download details from election commission website. -- Cheers, Nikhil VJ +91-966-583-1250 Pune / Mandangad, India

Re: [datameet] Data Deleted: PM Jan Dhan Yojana data archive

2017-09-10 Thread Nikhil VJ
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Re: [datameet] Urgent: Send feedback regarding Media Reporting in courts

2017-09-20 Thread Nikhil VJ
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Re: [datameet] Everything that is being done Badly is a Job opportunity in India

2017-09-20 Thread Nikhil VJ
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Re: [datameet] Adoption of HTTPS across Digital India services.

2017-09-22 Thread Nikhil VJ
access to web server then use LetsEncrypt. Its free and by >> EFF, Mozilla etc >> >> https://letsencrypt.org/getting-started/ >> >> Thej >> -- >> Thejesh GN *⏚* ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್ >> http://thejeshgn.com >> GPG ID : 0xBFFC8DD3C06DD6B0 >> >&

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