A few months back I stumbled upon this dataset of all voters registered in Bangalore. A quick scraping script followed by a run later, I had the names and addresses and voter IDs of all voters registered to vote in Bangalore in the state assembly elections held this way. As you can imagine, this is…
High dimension and low dimension data science
I’ve observed that there are two broad approaches that people take to getting information out of data. One approach is to simply throw a kitchen sink full of analytical techniques at the data. Without really trying to understand what the data looks like, and what the relationships may be, the analyst simply uses one method…