Tagged: Open Data

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Open DataCamp Bangalore 2013

The second Open DataCamp in Bangalore was earlier this month. This one was much different from the first one. I was very happy and tired at the same time. Now that I am back from a very good vacation. Its time to sit back and reflect upon #odcblr2013. First of all, to all...

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You are invited to Open DataCamp Bangalore 2013

Yearly Open DataCamp Bangalore is here. This time its going to be a two day event with awesome talks, workshops and hackathon. So block your calendar for March 2 and 3rd. Its a weekend, so its easy that way. We have already received quite a few interesting proposals from visualizing politics to playing...

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Instgram for Crowdsourcing Postbox Locations

Update: Its become an all India postbox data collection project. Now we use the tag #openpostboxindia. The source code is open sourced and can be used for any type of photo and location based data collection using Instagram and Twitter. I have been using instagram a lot. If you follow me on instagram...

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Introducing Bangalore Open Data Repository

Update: Bangalore Open Data Repository has a new home. Its called OpenBangalore.org. Please bookmark it, I have been collecting data about Bangalore for years. The collected data includes GIS, election, weather reports etc and were from different sources. I have been meaning to distribute it online for a while now. Two big reasons...

SQLite – Open Format for Open Data 6

SQLite – Open Format for Open Data

I scraped Gujarat rainfall data recently. The end result was 6 lakh rows of structured data. I released the data as an SQLite file instead of say a bunch of CSV or excel files. It kind of surprised some of my friends. But I think it’s a great file format for releasing open...

Rajasthan Rainfall Data (1957 to 2011) 5

Rajasthan Rainfall Data (1957 to 2011)

The Rajashtan rainfall data was scraped as part of Scrapathon held in Bangalore 21st July 2011. Intially I used scraperwiki, but the huge amount of data made it to timeout all the time :) so I wrote a simple python script to do it. Data is in the SQLITE file data.sqlite, in a...