Category: Technology

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Open Data in India: In a Restrictive Copyright Regime, Voluntary Organisations Pitch in to Make Data Accessible

Globally, while there has been a shift towards open data policies, some Government of India’s departments have gone the opposite way. They have decided to stop putting out data in the public domain. Data enthusiasts and voluntary organisations have been pitching in with their efforts to build open data resources in India. My...

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Building in the times of COVID-19

As an engineer, maker, builder, you want to build something during the crisis to help the community. But what can you build as a software engineer that can help the society during this period of crisis? The answer to the question is not easy, As we have not seen something this devastating in...

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How to be a Good Software Developer

Yesterday I spoke to students of NPTEL. The topic was “How to be a Good Software Developer”. It’s more like my advice to my younger self. The talk went on quite well except for few internet glitches. It was also special we because I was part of NPTEL’s engineering team at Google. I...

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DataMeet’s COVID-19 India Datasets

DataMeet community has been doing some amazing work in collecting, cleaning and organizing COVID-19 datasets. The focus in on Indian datasets. The data is mainly sourced from different government websites which are freely available to all the Indians. I recorded a video introducing these datasets. In the video we will go through each...

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Novel Corona Virus (COVID19) : Archive and API of India Data

I have been archiving Novel Corona Virus #Covid19 data published by Ministry of Health and Family Affairs (mohfw) for last few days. This archival will give us access to historical data which mohfw doesn’t publish. All data is on Github. There is an API too if you are interested.

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Android Kunjappan, Alexa and Loneliness

Note: Spoilers Subramanian (Soubin Shahir) lives with his father Bhaskaran in a small village in Kerala. Subramanian is a smart mechanical engineer. He wants to get out of his village to work like most educated Malayalees. His father Bhaskaran is a stubborn man, He won’t let his son go out (village) to work....