Tagged: Open Data

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Visualizing Air pollution in Bangalore using Brunel

Brunel defines a highly succinct and novel language that defines interactive data visualizations based on tabular data. Brunel is Visualization language. It’s a domain specific language. It has its own grammar. It feels familiar to anyone who thinks in data and want to visualize it. Brunel is also open source and works well...

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Building HOPCOMS Fruit/Veg Rate API using CouchDB

I love HOPCOMS stores. There are quite a few stores across Bangalore. They are popular for fresh vegetables and fruits. The Horticultural Producers’ Co-operative Marketing and Processing Society Ltd. or HOPCOMS was established with the principal objective of establishing a proper system for the marketing of fruits and vegetables; one that benefits both...

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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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Dear Mr R S Sharma: Aadhaar Number has no place on the Open Web

The Center for Internet and Society recently published a report called Information Security Practices of Aadhaar (or lack thereof): A documentation of public availability of Aadhaar numbers with sensitive personal financial information. After it was published it got wide media coverage. R S Sharma, currently chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India,...

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They want to take away maps they never gave us

For anyone familiar with DataMeet, a community of data enthusiasts1, you would be aware that the discussion can be rather stilted. Even though the list is dedicated to all types of data, geospatial data seems to be the main topic. There are over 700 topics related to geospatial data, out of 1600. That...

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Book: How to Lie with Statistics

In an era where every fight online is fought with numbers, this 50-year-old book should be made a compulsory college reading. Stats and graphs are part every news-hour show and part of every political discourse now. But every bit of number is taken as fact instead of being questioned. This is where Darrell...