Articles by anandram

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January 26, 2012 | anandram

Copyright notice: I hereby release all of the writing  content that is tagged by R, under the cc-by-sa copyrights (date: Jan 26 2012), as long as the copied content comes with proper attribution which also  includes a link to the source of the article . [Read more...]

India Census 2001 – Part 1

March 22, 2009 | anandram

I was trying – for the last few weeks – to get the 2001 Indian census data. Alas the census website is under construction. But fortunately the Internet rewind button works! Thankfully the literacy data was online there. The raw data is available here. I cleaned up the data so that it is ... [Read more...]

NREGA and Indian maps in R

March 8, 2009 | anandram

A few days ago I was reading an article by Jean Drèze and his colleagues on how the first two years of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) has progressed (There was another article by Drèze on NREGA in 2007). The NREGA is empowering the rural people in a ... [Read more...]

Coimbatore Weather and Questioning Amma!

March 8, 2009 | anandram

A week ago, Amma was telling the weather was getting hot in Coimbatore. I was telling her it is going to get worse in the next two months. She shot back saying that March is the hottest month while April and May are less hotter in Coimbatore. Growing up in ... [Read more...]

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