[datameet] Article - Database error: Why Delhi's failed experiment shows government should not use them

2013-09-10 Thread Manish Malik
Read this piece in Economic Times today that stresses the importance of devising frameworks for keeping the collected data up to date: Database error: Why Delhi's failed experiment shows government should not use them

Re: [datameet] CorporateDir

2013-06-30 Thread Manish Malik
On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Gautam John gkj...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone know who runs http://corporatedir.com/ Check http://whois.domaintools.com/corporatedir.com -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are

Re: [datameet] CorporateDir

2013-06-30 Thread Manish Malik
On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Gautam John gkj...@gmail.com wrote: Is a wonderful source of linked data that I would dearly love to see connected to the data in http://myneta.info Would be insane to create a full map of this stuff. You may also want to check

Re: [datameet] Indian Startups that have opened-up their API's to developers?

2013-06-17 Thread Manish Malik
You may also want to check on mashape. There's quite a few Indian companies' API listed, though I'm not sure if there's a way to filter by originating country there. Best, Manish On 17-Jun-2013 12:58 PM, Vineel Reddy Pindi pindivineelre...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Is there a list of Indian

Re: [datameet] Hacking the Indian Education System

2013-06-07 Thread Manish Malik
Prakash pran...@cis-india.orgwrote: Manish Malik [2013-06-06 13:26]: The repo was on github. And it was forked by several users before it was made private. Their forked repos are still public. Links to any of the forks repos? -- Pranesh Prakash Policy Director Centre for Internet

Re: [datameet] Hacking the Indian Education System

2013-06-06 Thread Manish Malik
Now that the data is out, what else useful (and interesting) can be deduced from the data? (in addition to the charts he has already put out) On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Deepak Shenoy deepakshe...@gmail.comwrote: AFAIK, has been there for most results. On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 12:41 PM,

Re: [datameet] Hacking the Indian Education System

2013-06-06 Thread Manish Malik
.. Its now private. The repo does show up in his latest activity tab, though. Not that rescraping the site would be impossible, but just a hunch that they must've stopped serving the data that way. On 6 June 2013 13:02, Manish Malik dotman...@gmail.com wrote: Now that the data is out, what

Re: [datameet] Bulk SMS cost for a crowdsourcing project

2013-04-15 Thread Manish Malik
You can use any of the numerous SMS Services Providers to buy a Longcode number (a 10-digit number people can send SMS to). Can cost between Rs. 500/- to Rs. 1000/- per month (and quite less than that of that if bought for longer duration). These services can send the data to your web server when