{"id":3079,"date":"2011-12-10T18:43:26","date_gmt":"2011-12-10T13:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/2011\/12\/10\/fun-with-data\/"},"modified":"2011-12-10T18:43:26","modified_gmt":"2011-12-10T13:13:26","slug":"fun-with-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/2011\/12\/10\/fun-with-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun with Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like data. when I used to be in corpodom &#8211; I would analyze tons and tons of data, trying to see patterns that would give us a competitive advantage. Unlike most in my company, when viewer ship figure came in, I would ask for raw data &#8211; trying to find things beyond the obvious.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I was looking for data for a column, and i just stumbled upon the Google Public Data Explorer &#8211; spent a nice hours looking at interesting visual comparisons.<\/p>\n<p>Time taken to start a business &#8211; How does India stand vis-a-vis the BRIC countries, developed nations (Have only included the US &amp; Germany in this) and the rest of the world.<\/p>\n<p>The data is from the World Bank, Development Indicators.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/publicdata\/embed?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&amp;ctype=l&amp;strail=false&amp;bcs=d&amp;nselm=h&amp;met_y=ic_reg_durs&amp;scale_y=lin&amp;ind_y=false&amp;rdim=country&amp;idim=country:IND:CHN:USA:DEU:BRA:RUS&amp;ifdim=country&amp;tstart=-285917400000&amp;tend=1291919400000&amp;hl=en_US&amp;dl=en&amp;ind=false&amp;icfg&amp;uniSize=0.035&amp;iconSize=0.5\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"400\" height=\"325\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I would hate to start a business in Brazil. And, I am surprised that it takes more days to start a business in China rather than India. And, India has improved &#8211; from 89 days in 2003 (we started our business that year) to 29 days in 2010 (we started our second business in 2009 &#8211; the film business).<\/p>\n<p>High Technology Exports (as a % of Manufacturing)<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/publicdata\/embed?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&amp;ctype=l&amp;strail=false&amp;bcs=d&amp;nselm=h&amp;met_y=tx_val_tech_mf_zs&amp;scale_y=lin&amp;ind_y=false&amp;rdim=country&amp;idim=country:IND:CHN:USA:DEU:BRA:RUS&amp;ifdim=country&amp;tstart=-285917400000&amp;tend=1291919400000&amp;hl=en_US&amp;dl=en&amp;ind=false&amp;uniSize=0.035&amp;iconSize=0.5&amp;icfg\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"400\" height=\"325\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is interesting to see how China has overtaken the United States slowly but surely. And, that gap is widening. Both Brazil and Russia do better than India. I am not sure if there is any policy in place that looks at addressing this.<\/p>\n<p>Internet Users as a Percentage of Population<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/publicdata\/embed?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&amp;ctype=l&amp;strail=false&amp;bcs=d&amp;nselm=h&amp;met_y=tx_val_tech_mf_zs&amp;scale_y=lin&amp;ind_y=false&amp;rdim=country&amp;idim=country:IND:CHN:USA:DEU:BRA:RUS&amp;ifdim=country&amp;tstart=-285917400000&amp;tend=1291919400000&amp;hl=en_US&amp;dl=en&amp;ind=false&amp;uniSize=0.035&amp;iconSize=0.5&amp;icfg\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"400\" height=\"325\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While Indians are the third largest population grouping on the net, the number of Indians are a tenth of the population. It would be interesting to know how many of these net users are regular &#8211; how many of them use the net beyond e-mail. Facebook says it has <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialbakers.com\/facebook-statistics\/india\">38 million registered <\/a><\/strong> accounts out of India, but that doesn&#8217;t tell you level or nature of activity.<\/p>\n<p>Adolescent Fertility Rates &#8211; births per 100 for women aged between 15 to 19<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/publicdata\/embed?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&amp;ctype=l&amp;strail=false&amp;bcs=d&amp;nselm=h&amp;met_y=tx_val_tech_mf_zs&amp;scale_y=lin&amp;ind_y=false&amp;rdim=country&amp;idim=country:IND:CHN:USA:DEU:BRA:RUS&amp;ifdim=country&amp;tstart=-285917400000&amp;tend=1291919400000&amp;hl=en_US&amp;dl=en&amp;ind=false&amp;uniSize=0.035&amp;iconSize=0.5&amp;icfg\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"400\" height=\"325\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is an abysmal figure, vis-a-vis India. And, going beyond the fact that these barely educated girls are becoming mothers &#8211; and will continue to be in the reproductive phase for the next 2 decades (at least), it also reflects poorly on the state of women&#8217;s rights in India. Compulsory Education. Compulsory enforcement of the age of marriage. Religious leaders -across the board be damned. This figure needs to go down. Else India will, literally, screw itself out of resources.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Agricultural Land<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"400\" height=\"325\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/publicdata\/embed?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&amp;ctype=l&amp;strail=false&amp;bcs=d&amp;nselm=h&amp;met_y=land_use_of_land_area&amp;fdim_y=land_use_type:1&amp;scale_y=lin&amp;ind_y=false&amp;rdim=country&amp;idim=country:IND:CHN:USA:DEU:BRA:RUS&amp;ifdim=country&amp;tstart=-285917400000&amp;tend=1291919400000&amp;hl=en_US&amp;dl=en&amp;ind=false&amp;uniSize=0.035&amp;iconSize=0.5&amp;icfg\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That is a seriously large %. I wonder how growth will be sustained if less than 40% of the Land is usable for other purposes including industry, cities and habitation. This figure is especially worrying, when you compare it to the Agricultural Value Add (As a % of GDP).<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"400\" height=\"325\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/publicdata\/embed?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&amp;ctype=l&amp;strail=false&amp;bcs=d&amp;nselm=h&amp;met_y=ea_prd_agri_kd&amp;scale_y=lin&amp;ind_y=false&amp;rdim=country&amp;idim=country:IND:CHN:USA:DEU:BRA:RUS&amp;ifdim=country&amp;tstart=-261725400000&amp;tend=1253039400000&amp;hl=en_US&amp;dl=en&amp;ind=false&amp;uniSize=0.035&amp;iconSize=0.5&amp;icfg\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>not the best &#8211; serious amounts of land being used inefficiently &#8230; and both China and the US has 7 times more land. the US has a third of our population. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like data. when I used to be in corpodom &#8211; I would analyze tons and tons of data, trying to see patterns that would give us a competitive advantage. Unlike most in my company, when viewer ship figure came in, I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[53,15,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-economics","category-india"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fun with Data - A PoV<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/2011\/12\/10\/fun-with-data\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fun with Data - A PoV\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I like data. when I used to be in corpodom &#8211; I would analyze tons and tons of data, trying to see patterns that would give us a competitive advantage. Unlike most in my company, when viewer ship figure came in, I...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/2011\/12\/10\/fun-with-data\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"A PoV\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-12-10T13:13:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@calamur\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@calamur\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/calamur.org\\\/gargi\\\/2011\\\/12\\\/10\\\/fun-with-data\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/calamur.org\\\/gargi\\\/2011\\\/12\\\/10\\\/fun-with-data\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"Fun with Data\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-12-10T13:13:26+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/calamur.org\\\/gargi\\\/2011\\\/12\\\/10\\\/fun-with-data\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":475,\"commentCount\":4,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/calamur.org\\\/gargi\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/60c3e7f79ef3b4745dac9f8dc29d3938\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Development\",\"Economics and Society\",\"India\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/calamur.org\\\/gargi\\\/2011\\\/12\\\/10\\\/fun-with-data\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/calamur.org\\\/gargi\\\/2011\\\/12\\\/10\\\/fun-with-data\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/calamur.org\\\/gargi\\\/2011\\\/12\\\/10\\\/fun-with-data\\\/\",\"name\":\"Fun with Data - A PoV\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/calamur.org\\\/gargi\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2011-12-10T13:13:26+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/calamur.org\\\/gargi\\\/2011\\\/12\\\/10\\\/fun-with-data\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/calamur.org\\\/gargi\\\/2011\\\/12\\\/10\\\/fun-with-data\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/calamur.org\\\/gargi\\\/2011\\\/12\\\/10\\\/fun-with-data\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/calamur.org\\\/gargi\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Fun with Data\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/calamur.org\\\/gargi\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/calamur.org\\\/gargi\\\/\",\"name\":\"A PoV\",\"description\":\"Harini Calamur&#039;s Writings\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/calamur.org\\\/gargi\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/60c3e7f79ef3b4745dac9f8dc29d3938\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/calamur.org\\\/gargi\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":[\"Person\",\"Organization\"],\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/calamur.org\\\/gargi\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/60c3e7f79ef3b4745dac9f8dc29d3938\",\"name\":\"calamur\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/f8df2f7268afd0d54952b80930a504251ec3e1609cb7cd609351520060f6006e?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/f8df2f7268afd0d54952b80930a504251ec3e1609cb7cd609351520060f6006e?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/f8df2f7268afd0d54952b80930a504251ec3e1609cb7cd609351520060f6006e?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"calamur\"},\"logo\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/f8df2f7268afd0d54952b80930a504251ec3e1609cb7cd609351520060f6006e?s=96&d=mm&r=g\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Fun with Data - A PoV","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/2011\/12\/10\/fun-with-data\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Fun with Data - A PoV","og_description":"I like data. when I used to be in corpodom &#8211; I would analyze tons and tons of data, trying to see patterns that would give us a competitive advantage. Unlike most in my company, when viewer ship figure came in, I...","og_url":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/2011\/12\/10\/fun-with-data\/","og_site_name":"A PoV","article_published_time":"2011-12-10T13:13:26+00:00","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@calamur","twitter_site":"@calamur","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/2011\/12\/10\/fun-with-data\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/2011\/12\/10\/fun-with-data\/"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"Fun with Data","datePublished":"2011-12-10T13:13:26+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/2011\/12\/10\/fun-with-data\/"},"wordCount":475,"commentCount":4,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/#\/schema\/person\/60c3e7f79ef3b4745dac9f8dc29d3938"},"articleSection":["Development","Economics and Society","India"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/2011\/12\/10\/fun-with-data\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/2011\/12\/10\/fun-with-data\/","url":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/2011\/12\/10\/fun-with-data\/","name":"Fun with Data - A PoV","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/#website"},"datePublished":"2011-12-10T13:13:26+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/2011\/12\/10\/fun-with-data\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/2011\/12\/10\/fun-with-data\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/2011\/12\/10\/fun-with-data\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Fun with Data"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/#website","url":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/","name":"A PoV","description":"Harini Calamur&#039;s Writings","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/#\/schema\/person\/60c3e7f79ef3b4745dac9f8dc29d3938"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/#\/schema\/person\/60c3e7f79ef3b4745dac9f8dc29d3938","name":"calamur","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f8df2f7268afd0d54952b80930a504251ec3e1609cb7cd609351520060f6006e?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f8df2f7268afd0d54952b80930a504251ec3e1609cb7cd609351520060f6006e?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f8df2f7268afd0d54952b80930a504251ec3e1609cb7cd609351520060f6006e?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"calamur"},"logo":{"@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f8df2f7268afd0d54952b80930a504251ec3e1609cb7cd609351520060f6006e?s=96&d=mm&r=g"}}]}},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p22F9v-NF","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}