Hi Vikas, Nice work! Still have to check it all out, but quickly want to share regarding one of the issues you mentioned:
OpenRefine is a useful tool to resolve spelling differences in repeating and messy data. Here is a write-up on it: http://datameet.org/2018/06/13/openrefine-bus-stop/ -- Cheers, Nikhil VJ https://nikhilvj.co.in On Sat, Dec 7, 2019 at 12:02 PM ヴィカス ヤダヴァ (vikas yadav) <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all. > > I'd like to introduce findmygov.in, working on it for about two years. > Its main objectives are to present contact info of elected and appointed > officers across the country, across all departments, state, central and in > all Indian languages (not auto translated). There are few more objectives > <https://findmygov.in/site/about>. Since there is not any easy way to get > it, mostly comes down to how much time I have to manually feed the data. > The newly SWaaS platform which all districts websites are shifting towards, > should make it little easier. Need to sit and make a parser. Data is also > gathered through RTI. Data of recent election candidates and full results > of LS and Assembly polls is there but not exposed yet. During LS elections, > candidates for every constituency were shown with pics and links to their > affidavits. I missed the train for on-going Jharkhand assembly elections. > The homepage of findmygov.in asks you location and shows everything about > that point. > > All elected reps of assembly, parliament constituencies and few municipal > bodies are mapped (using polygons from Datameet). Tamil Nadu also has > polygons till village level (Panchayat Raj from bhuvan GIS). Actually I > have full PR polygon data for entire country but not mapped yet due to lack > of time and the spellings mismatch prevents automatic linking. Spellings is > the most common problem working with nationwide data across ministries and > departments. > > In last few days I setup a graphql interface > <https://findmygov.in/graphql> to expose some of this data. It is using > the graphiql UI so you can see the docs and try out. It is just blocked by > captcha wall. All graphql data also has updated timestamp, so you can > verify the freshness. Govt department contact info stays the same only the > officer may change. Even twitter handles of reps and officers is supported > (but data is mostly missing for now). Polygons are not exposed in the > graphql yet but easy to add them. > > findmygov.in is self-funded not-for-profit experiment. I'm just a coder > who cannot design a website. > > Some query examples (there is a Docs link on the top right to learn more > about types): > > query { > states { > name > elections { > name > } > } > } > > ... > divisions { > name > districts { > name > } > } > ... > districts { > name > officers(desig: DEPUTYCOMMISSIONER) { > name, > phone, > email > } > } > > Please share you remarks. Any features, bugs or corrections are most > welcome. > Thanks, > Vikas > > thevikas.com > <https://thevikas.com/?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=footer&utm_campaign=c11> > - *Find My Government* - findmygov.in <https://goo.gl/onYnWL> > > -- > Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more > about us by visiting http://datameet.org > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "datameet" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/datameet/CAFyZHpcBY7PMYjfPmHpQd%2BgTYAtSn%3DwP%2BD-ztM1ZOc%3DbmcY3Mw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/datameet/CAFyZHpcBY7PMYjfPmHpQd%2BgTYAtSn%3DwP%2BD-ztM1ZOc%3DbmcY3Mw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/datameet/CAH7jeuMMDPc6z%2B3M8qkS-%3DyHxr4aGKnrO6%2BkN4ig-O2qL4V41A%40mail.gmail.com.
