Category: Technology

Part of #SpeakForMe dashboard showing emails sent to MPs on a PC map. 0

How I built A Quick Dashboard for #SpeakForMe Campaign

#SpeakForMe is a campaign to petition Indian MPs, Banks, Mobile operators and other service providers to speak for you against the Aadhaar linking coercion. You can go to #SpeakForMe to send your petition. As part of campaign I built a quick and dirty dashboard for the emails sent. This is a quick note...

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How to Lie with Graphs

Recently I chanced upon these visualizations on Transforming India by Government of India. The site is recording of how India has been transforming since 2014. While going through them I found a few charts/visuals which Darrell Huff in his 1954 book How to Lie with Statistics talks about in the context of how...

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Getting started with IBM Iot Platform

I am planning to add some PM2.5 & PM10 sensors to my network for sensors which are at this point plain weather stations. With this I also wanted to explore a more scalable way of hosting data. Something that I can do easily and that I can suggest other readers. Some of my...

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India urgently needs responsible disclosure policy guidelines for vulnerability reporting

This year has been an interesting one for infosecurity in India. Major infrastructure services — from identity to payment services — have gone online. This is also the reason why there is a lot of conversation happening around general and operational security. But what’s lacking is talk around missing guidelines to report security...

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Challenges for Open Data – India

Recently Carl Malamud who runs Public.Resource.Org and Sam Pitroda were in town to talk about Right to Information and Knowledge. I was asked to talk about Open Data Community in India. This post is my notes. Intro: 1 Minute I am Thejesh, I am one of the co-founder of DataMeet, Community of Open...

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Personal Analytics Dashboard using Metabase and Nomie

I love personal analytics. Ever since I have started logging using Nomie, I have experimented with data, mostly using spreadsheet. It’s interesting to find patterns and make corrections. Nomie uses CouchDB as the cloud storage. CouchDB is a great database but I prefer a simple RDBMS when I want to query. So sometime...