Re: [datameet] Meetup in Mumbai?

[Pradeep Mohandas]

Meetup in Mumbai - Let's do it!

Code for Mumbai - nice project!

Pradeep

On 15 May 2013 14:58, rushabh <rme...@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear all,

Happy to bump into this mailing list. Is anyone interested in a meetup in Mumbai - the last one I searched was almost a year ago?

A quick intro: We had participated in the recent Planning Commission hackathon. When we saw the data.gov.in site, we realized that there must be a better way to visualize all this data. So we came up with http://codeformumbai.org (repository: https://github.com/codeformumbai/data-gov-in).

The goal is to create a data portal that can merge all the datasources based on some heuristics (here is a start I did for the data.gov.in files: https://github.com/codeformumbai/data-gov-in/blob/master/build_db.py). I was able to map almost 60% datapoints to timeseries and 30% to a region. And this is just the start - there is the awesome devinfo census database. Would also love to find ways to map election data into this so that it could be useful in the up coming elections. Also if we can map the governance architecture (governments, departments, ministries, institutions) then it will make for even interesting analysis.

Since I am a newbie in this field would love to meet more experienced folks, get ideas for visualisations, share datasources, tools. If there are any similar projects (did not find many so far) please let me know.

best regards,
Rushabh

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[Jaidev Deshpande]

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 8:47 PM, Pradeep Mohandas
<pradeep....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Meetup in Mumbai - Let's do it!
> Code for Mumbai - nice project!

I'm in.

JD

[Johnson Chetty]

Yes we do need to have a meetup... 

When? Mostly Saturdays?

Where? I can pitch to get a place at the TIFR Campus in Mankhurd, Mumbai. It has proper internet and facilities. (Subsidized food, projectors, etc etc) 

Regards,
Johnson Chetty

[Sundeep Narwani]

The project idea  sounds awesome.

 I can try with CED library in colaba .they have a projector too.

[Rushabh Mehta]

Thanks @Pradeep

Lets do the meetup. Will send you guys a mail offline so not to spam the list

best,

Rushabh

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Twitter: @rushabh_mehta

[Amrtha K]

I am also interested!

Regards

Amrtha Kasturi Rangan
Manager -Grants
Arghyam
#599, 12th Main, HAL 2nd Stage, Indiranagar,
Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Pin-560008
Website: Arghyam,Indiawaterportal    

[Johnson Chetty]

On 16 May 2013 12:06, Amrtha K <amr...@arghyam.org> wrote:

I am also interested!

Okay! Adding you to the conversation off-list.. 

If anyone else is interested, kindly reply to this thread! 

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Johnson Chetty

[akshata bhatkar]

Hi

I would like to attend this meet. Please help me on how to go about it

Akshata Bhatkar

Internet and Mobile Association of India

[Ajay Kelkar]

Sure meet up in mumbai is a good idea, let me know when?

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 2:58 PM, rushabh <rme...@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear all,

Happy to bump into this mailing list. Is anyone interested in a meetup in Mumbai - the last one I searched was almost a year ago?

A quick intro: We had participated in the recent Planning Commission hackathon. When we saw the data.gov.in site, we realized that there must be a better way to visualize all this data. So we came up with http://codeformumbai.org (repository: https://github.com/codeformumbai/data-gov-in).

The goal is to create a data portal that can merge all the datasources based on some heuristics (here is a start I did for the data.gov.in files: https://github.com/codeformumbai/data-gov-in/blob/master/build_db.py). I was able to map almost 60% datapoints to timeseries and 30% to a region. And this is just the start - there is the awesome devinfo census database. Would also love to find ways to map election data into this so that it could be useful in the up coming elections. Also if we can map the governance architecture (governments, departments, ministries, institutions) then it will make for even interesting analysis.

Since I am a newbie in this field would love to meet more experienced folks, get ideas for visualisations, share datasources, tools. If there are any similar projects (did not find many so far) please let me know.

best regards,
Rushabh

[Sudheendra]

Guys, pls keep me in the loop, would love to catch up with datameet mumbai community!

[Ankur Nagar]

Hey Johnson, I might be in Mumbai the week after next - so will be great to catch up. Sorry have been off the radar since the camp -- it would be great to join in the datameet - if that works out! 

Regards,

Ankur

[Johnson Chetty]

On 17 May 2013 20:55, Ankur Nagar <ankur...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey Johnson, I might be in Mumbai the week after next - so will be great to catch up. Sorry have been off the radar since the camp -- it would be great to join in the datameet - if that works out! 

Oh that would be really nice!! Glad to know we have a speaker for the meet! ;) 

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Johnson Chetty

[Johnson Chetty]

Hey all,

Okay, Mumbai meetup is happening!  

So we have a place:

2-5 pm. Gnowledge Lab, Room 801

Homi Bhabha Center for Science Education, 

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,

V.N. Purav Marg, Mankhurd, 

Mumbai 400088

And yes...  Anyone attending, please confirm back on this thread soon.. if you weren't on the separate discussion thread so far.

Hoping to just shoot a few random points and have some consensus of thoughts overall. And figure out what we can do that's cool. The community is quite nascent here as we all know.. and some of us met actually at the bangalore datameet.

Itinerary:

- Intros

- Talks on Work, Ideas, Challenges

- Discussion:      

     -Mumbai and its open data challenges. 

     -On how to take the meetup further. ( Location, resource person list)

Any of the more experienced amongst us have any starter points? (*nudge Nisha, Thej, et al. )

Thanks and Cheers,

On 18 May 2013 10:45, TapanK <tapan....@gmail.com> wrote:

Please keep me in the loop on Mumbai datameet.

Tapan Khopkar

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Johnson Chetty

[Rushabh Mehta]

The date: its this Saturday 1st of June.