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How The Hindu data team covers elections using night lights and census data | Data Point podcast

Dec 19, 2022

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The Effect of Agricultural Data on Electoral Results

01:20

How to use a scraper to extract energy data from a website

01:19

Urban-Rural Differences in Voter Turnout in the United States

01:20

Introduction

3min

How to Use Shape Files to Cover Elections

3min

How to Publish Shape Files in High Quality Formats

2min

How to Scrape Energy Information From a Website

3min

Tap Do: A Way to Ease Your Life

3min

How to Automate Elections

3min

Skeleton Preparation for Elections

2min

How to Prepare a Skeleton for Elections

3min

How to Analyze Aggregated Data for Elections

3min

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The Variance in Vote Shares in the Elections

3min

11.

The Effect of Nightlights on Rural Voting

3min

12.

The BJP's Urban Backlash

3min

13.

The Effect of the Farm Administration on Voting in the BJP

2min

14.

How to Pass Political Questions

3min

15.

The Importance of Surveys in Elections

4min

In this episode, The Hindu speaks to our own Srinivasan Ramani and Vignesh Radhakrishnan about how the data team carries out election coverage. From scraping the data to experimenting with different mapping softwares, and analysing the results in real time, this episode brings you into our newsroom.

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