Social Data Science Blog
Overqualified-Unemployed demographic dividend of India Analysis of Largest Global Online Recruitment examination to extract higly disaggreagted socio economic insights on India. In 2019, Indian Railways (8th largest employer in the world) conducted world largest online recruitment examination, where over 19 million candidates applied for 63,097 Level-I posts, including gang-man, track-man, helper and office peons.
Improving assessment of Climate Change Gridded climate data products are majorly driven by the reading from ground stations. In that effect the number and spatial coverage of these stations are quite important. Most of the climate data products on India are based on limited number of ground stations, constraining to capture the spatial variations of climate.For instance, The Global Human Climate Network (GHCN) maintained by the National Oceanographic Association of America (NOAA) at NASA or University of Delaware Precipitation Climatology. The raw data for all these data sets are sourced from the IMD but rely on far fewer weather stations; for instance, NOAA procures data for only 45 temperature and around 300 precipitations stations across India. This is more subtle, given India is a climatically diverse country with the third highest number of climate zones (16 Köppen classification) globally.
Mapping India Tool for generating spatial disaggregated maps on Groundwater Station, Rainfall Stations & Protests in India
GDP & Nightlights: India A three series blog post examining economic imapct of Nightlights in India. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NASA releases Nighlights by two products Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) & Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS). Difference between DMSP (1992-2012) & VIIRS (2014 - onwards) are important to for economic causal analysis.
Demonitization Sentiment Analysis Parsing Sentiment from 3 lakhs twitter feeds after the RBI's release of annual accounts on 30th August, 2017. The objective is to capture and reflect the views of technically equipped demographic on demonetization experiment circa 2016.
R Utility Kit : R Programming Guide
Just like a spoken language, R comes with it’s own set of dialects and colloquial. There are many ways to code a simple operation. This particular characteristic makes it difficult for 1st time R users to learn the language. The purpose of this blog is to address this very issue by consolidating various formats for learning basic R functions. In other words, for someone who has worked on R moderately, this blog is essentially a filtered consolidation of all Stack Overflow questions to expedite code processing.