[Data-modeling] indian elections

[Praveen Paritosh]

----- "Chris Blow" <cblow at meedan.net> wrote:

| Hello,
| 
| I am working on a project that seeks to organize information about the
|  
| upcoming Indian Elections.
| 
| http://votereport.in/blog/about/

Hi Chris, 

What is the scale of this data -- how many people, places and organizations? I see that the ECI website provides some of this data on their website. Is there a better format than scraping html pages for the data. Are there other sources?

Also, I am curious about the notion of "incident". Is this an official "ticket" given by government officials, or is it a report that is backed by a news article? 

Thanks, 
Praveen.  


| 
| Currently we have cobbled together an astonishingly basic list of  
| people and places
| http://votereportindia.pbwiki.com/Design%C2%A0Inputs
| 
| And, for event-based data, we want to classify according to the  
| Election Commission’s Model Code of Conduct:
| 
| 1. Hate speech in campaigning
| 2. Inter party violence
| 3. Misuse of official means
| 4. Intimidation of voters/ officials
| 5. Violence against voters/ officials
| 6. Bribing of voters/ officials
| 7. Impersonation of voters
| 8. Voter list discrepancies
| 9. Broken Electronic Voting Machines
| 10. Polling booth capturing
| (drawn from: http://eci.nic.in/faq/faq_mcc.pdf)
| 
| 
| 
| Thus we hope to capture
| 
| People
| - election related officials
| - candidates        
| - prominent endorsers
| 
| Places
| - cities and towns
| - polling locations
| - locations of violations of the ECMCC as per above
| 
| Events
| - violations of the ECMCC as per above
| 
| Organizations
| - Parties
| - Media outlets
| - Any endorsing organizations
| 
| 
| I have been recommending that we use Freebase to structure some of our
|  
| data. Can anyone give any advice about their experience modeling  
| elections?
| 
| 
| Thanks!
| 
| Chris
| 
| 
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