Re: [datameet] Karnataka Elections - 2013

2013-05-17 Thread Srinivasan Ramani
Dear Sagar, The EC's inaction and other details have been logged in another thread in this egroup titled, "MP/MLA shapes". There were some suggestions on alternatives, but those couldnt' be worked upon. Please have a look at that thread. Best, Srinivasan On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Sagar

Re: [datameet] Karnataka Elections - 2013

2013-05-16 Thread Sagar
Hi Srini, I dont know if this has been looked into, but the Election Commission used to host constituency shapefiles on their website a while back (2008/09 is what I remember) - maybe we can approach them? I do know of this private initiative: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~sandip/data.html, but as

Re: [datameet] Karnataka Elections - 2013

2013-05-16 Thread Srinivasan Ramani
> boundaries - but the visual mid points - copied down manually (and > painstakingly) from the karnatakageoportal website.. Now that's what you > call neanderthal :) > > > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Chandrashekhar Raman > Date: Thu, May 16, 2013 at

Re: [datameet] Karnataka Elections - 2013

2013-05-16 Thread Thejesh GN
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Thejesh GN wrote: > On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Megha Vishwanath < > megha.vishwan...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Has anyone here already scraped the ceokarnataka / election commission / >> wikipedia website for 2013 state election results into a csv or >> sprea

Re: [datameet] Karnataka Elections - 2013

2013-05-16 Thread Megha Vishwanath
Thanks very much: Shyam, Thej, Srinivasan On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Thejesh GN wrote: > > On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Megha Vishwanath < > megha.vishwan...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Has anyone here already scraped the ceokarnataka / election commission / >> wikipedia website for 201

Re: [datameet] Karnataka Elections - 2013

2013-05-16 Thread Thejesh GN
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Megha Vishwanath < megha.vishwan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Has anyone here already scraped the ceokarnataka / election commission / > wikipedia website for 2013 state election results into a csv or > spreadsheet? I will need to, just thought it may save me some effor

Re: [datameet] Karnataka Elections - 2013

2013-05-16 Thread Srinivasan Ramani
Dear all, You can find this scraper tool that I wrote useful for getting constituency wise data for the state. It also hosts the data that you need in csv. You can modify the data in the csv file to get your format. https://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/election_commission_india_results_meghalaya_asse

Re: [datameet] Karnataka Elections - 2013

2013-05-16 Thread Chandrashekhar Raman
You can get it from http://5-year-itch.blogspot.in I'm not really a technical expert.. So the usual caveats apply Cs On May 16, 2013 12:17 PM, "Megha Vishwanath" wrote: > Hi All, > > Has anyone here already scraped the ceokarnataka / election commission / > wikipedia website for 2013 state elec

Re: [datameet] Karnataka Elections - 2013

2013-05-15 Thread Megha Vishwanath
Hey Venkat, Am not sure, but cant the Govt sites expose these data in a structured > manner? How is the OpenData-Gov movement working on these fronts. > > IMHO, if you are still relying on scraping data for NGO activities i think > you are trying to a wrong problem. Not only are you overloading th

Re: [datameet] Karnataka Elections - 2013

2013-05-15 Thread Venkatraman S
Am not sure, but cant the Govt sites expose these data in a structured manner? How is the OpenData-Gov movement working on these fronts. IMHO, if you are still relying on scraping data for NGO activities i think you are trying to a wrong problem. Not only are you overloading the Govt servers but a

[datameet] Karnataka Elections - 2013

2013-05-15 Thread Megha Vishwanath
Hi All, Has anyone here already scraped the ceokarnataka / election commission / wikipedia website for 2013 state election results into a csv or spreadsheet? I will need to, just thought it may save me some effort if anyone has already :) ! I like the format here: http://eciresults.ap.nic.in/stat