A container for all my views with excerpts from technology, travel, films, books, kannada, friends and other interests. I am Thejesh GN, friends call me Thej.
My last visit to Bangalore Government Museum must have been in 90s, when I was in school. I had almost forgotten how beautiful that building was. I was happy to be there. The reason for my recent visit was an exhibition about Inscription Stones of Bangalore. #InscriptionStonesofBangalore is a civic project to raise...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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Thejesh GN (ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್) "Thej" is an Independent Technologist, Hacker, Maker, Traveler, Blogger, InfoActivist, Open data and Open internet enthusiast from Bangalore, India. He loves experimenting with all things life and hence some times he is called hacker and other times duct tape. You can read more about him here. Email [ i @ thejeshgn dot com]. PGP/GPG Keys are here.
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