which takes like 300 MB after unzipping. MS Excel couldn't load it ("Too many rows and columns"). Heck, even Matlab failed to read the CSV. ("File format not recognized")
It's great to see more D3 based mapping projects - it has made it really easy for anyone to get hold of geospatial data and munge it with stats, all with very little learning curve.
In a way - note how the regions around the metropolitan cities of Bombay, Madras, Calcutta and New Delhi (using the old names here) are all lightly colored. These were and still remain the major trading and financial centers of the country.
Where did you get the district map of India? I know jvectormap that has the states[1] but it excludes the areas our government claims but does not administer (aksai chin, pok) which might not be appreciated in official circles.
I've been looking at GIS options to get a good district level map, and now I feel like I missed something obvious. Getting district maps has been a pain.
What's amazing to me is that a bicycle is considered an asset. I can't imagine being so poor as to not be able to own a bicycle... not owning a radio is almost worse, but at least a bicycle doesn't require electricity.... and I don't know how predominant radio is in India, but I would guess bicycle travel is pretty damn common.
The numbers for Hyderabad and Rangareddi districts in the state of Andhra Pradesh (in South India) show 3.1% and 7.3% respectively. Considering that the state capital and its metropolitan area are in these two districts, I expected highest numbers of people owning said "assets". But these two had lower numbers compared to other districts.
Then I came across the earlier post "We are the 5%" (http://datastories.in/blog/2013/04/01/indias-5-percent/), which had a similar map showing the "% of Households with TV, Computer, Phone and Vehicle, by District". This map shows Hyderabad with 22.7% and Rangareddi with 15.8%. These of course are more likely numbers.
Since TV and phone were among the lists of assets in both posts, the first set of numbers should be more in line with the second set. How is this discrepancy explained?
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EDIT: There's a 230 MB zip file here. Not sure what it contains: http://www.devinfolive.info/censusinfodashboard/
which takes like 300 MB after unzipping. MS Excel couldn't load it ("Too many rows and columns"). Heck, even Matlab failed to read the CSV. ("File format not recognized")
http://www.data.gov.in/
[1] http://jvectormap.com/maps/countries/india/
I've been looking at GIS options to get a good district level map, and now I feel like I missed something obvious. Getting district maps has been a pain.
Then I came across the earlier post "We are the 5%" (http://datastories.in/blog/2013/04/01/indias-5-percent/), which had a similar map showing the "% of Households with TV, Computer, Phone and Vehicle, by District". This map shows Hyderabad with 22.7% and Rangareddi with 15.8%. These of course are more likely numbers.
Since TV and phone were among the lists of assets in both posts, the first set of numbers should be more in line with the second set. How is this discrepancy explained?