[datameet] Online conference on open data in India (Fri 25 Sep)

Tomorrow (Fri 25 Sep 2020 10 am), there's a virtual conference run by the ISB team that built the India Data Portal -- the Open Data Conclave. This is to promote open data usage in India, and brings together people from government, media, academia, research, indus

[datameet] India Division level maps

During the last meetup event of GeoHYD at Gramener, we created Division level maps for 16 Indian states based on the 2011 census maps. Districts are grouped as Divisions in most states. We’ve ignored those states that don’t have or don't report div

Re: [datameet] Re: Revese Geocoding in Excel

gt; On Saturday, October 7, 2017 at 12:14:13 PM UTC+5:30, S Anand wrote: >> >> Shijith, if I’m not mistaken, Noor is looking for the opposite: convert >> lat-long to an address. >> >> The source for a geocoder is at https://github.com/sanand0/geocode-excel. >> We

Re: [datameet] Re: Revese Geocoding in Excel

Shijith, if I’m not mistaken, Noor is looking for the opposite: convert lat-long to an address. The source for a geocoder is at https://github.com/sanand0/geocode-excel. We can change the API to a reverse geocoding one like https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/geoco

Re: [datameet] TIN numbers and commercial tax divisions

This Excel sheet lists TIN numbers as well as Nodal Officers and Nodal Divisions for a subset of Maharashtra TINs. The TINs go from 2702

Re: [datameet] Top Employers by employee strength of each sector of the economy

I can try and contact someone within the EPF, Ashutosh. Their first question I guess would be what this is to be used for. Any answers that might be of help to them? Regards, Anand On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 8:32 AM ashutosh singh wrote: > Dear All, > > I am looking for data on the top employers

Re: [datameet] Top Employers by employee strength of each sector of the economy

Hi Ashutosh My data is outdated, but here's a company sizes (16MB) based on the employee provident fund data in Feb 2013. (This was used for a visual exploration .) Regards, Anand On Fri, Aug 19, 2016

Re: [datameet] A data visualization of Kollywood actors filmography

Nice work, Adiamaan -- quite enjoyed it! Regards Anand Chief Data Scientist Gramener On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 5:04 AM adiamaan keerthi wrote: > Hi Guys, > > This is my first Data Visualization. > Please provide feedback. > > > http://www.adiamaan.com/blog/filmography/

Re: [datameet] World map that allows colour code as per preference?

https://gramener.com/cartogram/ perhaps? On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 1:55 PM, Harveen wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I am looking for a tool or website that has the political world map and > allows you to fill in the countries with different colours as the need may > be to indicate different patterns bas

Re: [datameet] Booth-wise elector count (male/female/other/total)

Nice one Raphael. Just wondering if you would like to add the automated portions of the scripts in the repo? For most of the other files, the repo has web scrapers or PDF scrape

[datameet] Fwd: Hadoop instructor

If any Hadoop experts on this group are interested in teaching, Teknoturf is looking for help. Contact details below. Regards Anand -- Forwarded message -- From: Vanitha Raghavan Date: Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 2:31 PM Subject: RE: Hadoop instructor To: S Anand Cc: Vengatesh C R

Re: [datameet] Where can I find shapefiles for official state-level india map

I've got a topojson file at https://gramener.com/cartogram/maps/india-states.json You can download an SVG version at https://gramener.com/cartogram/#?map=india-states Regards, Anand On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 4:22 PM, prasenjit mukherjee wrote: > Where can I find shapefiles for official state-le

Re: [datameet] Converting pdf to csv?

Tabula offered some promise, but struggles with non-English characters. xpdf has the same problems. Sorry, but my toolkit seems to have failed here, at least on the Voter list. Anand On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Debamitro Chak

[datameet] Fwd: NCERT Textbooks

Here's a response from Prof. Rajaram Sharma of the NCERT on how NCERT books may be redistributed. Thought this group would be interested in knowing what the body's official stand on redistribution is. (Quick summary: you can redistribute, but preferably not make money out of it.) Regards, Anand

Re: [datameet] Re: [Bangalore] Any meets in Bangalore.

Microsoft's happy to provide a venue. We can squeeze in about 50 people. Should we plan for Sun 28th July? Regards, Anand On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Nisha Thompson wrote: > Hey! > > Let's have a Bangalore meetup. > > I know we

Re: [datameet] Publisher Threatens to Sue Blogger for $1-Billion - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education

To summarise this : Jeffrey Beall of Scholarly Open Access has been sued by IPMarkets.in via co-founder Ashor Ram Kumar (Jubil

Re: [datameet] An inquiry about boundaries of gram and taluka panchayats

The Survey of India sells these as .shp files. What you're looking for is the "Administrative Bdy. Database For entire country Upto Taluk level with HQ" from http://www.surveyofindia.gov.in/pages/display/91-pricing-of-digital-products. This is as of the 2011 Census. You can reach out dmadc@nic.

Re: [datameet] April's Bangalore DataMeet

> But why not this April 25th, 7 pm at Gramener. Anand can we use the space? > Sure, Thej. -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and sto

[datameet] Visualising politics

My slides from the OpenDataCamp session day-before on Visualising Politics are at http://www.slideshare.net/gramener/visualising-politics Regarding the Excel sheet I used for this: I'd like to make it a bit better before making it public. Until then, the early adopters who'd like to play with it

Re: [datameet] Data.Gov.In - Open Data Formats for GIS data

+1 for GeoJSON. Having said that, conversion between these formats wouldn't be an issue given GDAL. Perhaps the bigger challenge would be for departments to comply with a format we suggest. Maybe we could say a) "Here's a suggested format, but any other format that's readily available is fine too

[datameet] DSDT September 15: Social Networks

FYI: ** Data Science Meets Data Technology September 15th, 2012 10:00 AM Onward Lecture Hall, NIAS

[datameet] Re: Course and meetup on data

few more if you'd like to join in. Please feel free to reach Anand (09741 552 552) for queries Regards, Rajesh & Anand On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 7:05 AM, S Anand wrote: > Analytic techniques are becoming ever more important in industry as well > as academia. Much can be learned by