Linked List : Three FOSS Tools to work with CSVs
If you work with Data, you can’t escape working with CSVs. It’s a universally accepted data format for sharing the data. I use the following tools to wrangle with it.
Tagged: Open Data
Mapping Local Government Directory to WikiData
The Indian government maintains the directory and hierarchy of local governments and administrative areas in India called the Local Government Directory (LGD). Recently I wanted to map them to WikiData items. This means I wanted to map the administrative areas in the local government to items on WikiData. Update them if necessary.
Linked List: Simple Ways to Contribute to OpenStreetMap
Recently I completed 1000 edits on OpenStreetMap. It’s a big deal for me :) It happened because I started making small but useful contributions from my phone. I usually map on the phone and then sometimes update them on the desktop, if required. On the phone, I use the following apps, which makes it super easy to edit.
COVID-19 India Vaccination Progress Data
India level cumulative Vaccination Progress Data is available as JSON at datameet/covid19 repo in mohfw_vaccination_status.json. You can start using it. Its updated once a day.
Scraping Karnataka Reservoir Water Flow Data
Scraper and Data – Karanataka reservoir water inflow and outflow data on weekly basis for all the dams in Karnataka. Published by Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre (KSNDMC) .
Getting started with RDF using Blazegraph
Table of Contents1 Semantic Web, Triple and Triplestore2 Blazegraph2.1 Download and install the database.2.2 Import some data3 Next – SPARQL This started as a simple exercise of querying WikiData database using their SPQRQL query service. That lead me to studying about RDF and Triplets. I found it very interesting. I spent hours on...
