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Most of my Tuesday went into baby sitting my nephew and niece. I must tell you its lot of work. Babies and computers dont go together that well. I got an hour or so to work the project I started last week. I am done with the code required to scrape the Coimbatore...
I am very happy that I came across this project and was able to contribute to it. Given the amount of data scraping I do, you can imagine how close this story is to my heart. Watch it on vimeo on demand if possible. You can download the cc licensed version using bittorrent...
Notes from my first ever HappyTuesdays. I couldn’t get to sit at HappyBelly Cafe, it seems they open only at 10am. Instead I went to french loaf. I sat outside under the green, I really liked it, weather was awesome. I continued my work on earlier scraping projects Fixed bugs and updated the...
Environment support group in Bangalore is fighting a legal case against BBMP about tree planting. I got to know about this case late in the evening. From a friend who had read about my previous attempts at mapping the trees using ODK. What we need Bangaloreans to do: Please download the document accessible...
Bangalore, once upon a time called Garden city, still has quite a bit of green cover. Almost every week we read a story about cutting down trees for some reason. But nobody knows the details, including the people who write those articles. I thought it would be great if you had a baseline...
One of the biggest criticism of my previous post about BMTC Bus Stop Accessibility study was that the data was old. I set out to fix that. BMTC now has fairly well defined website and hence I scraped their data with ease. Now we have the recent data (Feb/2014) as per BMTC website...
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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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