Indian Agriculture, Environment, and Development

• DevInfo
• IndiaStat – all data available through IndiaStat’s sector-specific associate sites (e.g., through IndiaAgriStat and IndiaEnergyStat) is also retrievable from the main IndiaStat site
• ICRISAT – Village Dynamics in South Asia
• NCAER ARIS-REDS
• India Human Development Survey – NCAER & UMD
• India WaterTool
• datameet – India’s open data community, on Google Groups

NCAER ARIS-REDS – Rural Economic and Demographic Survey, Round 2006

• Crop listing codes (converted from Appendix-2) – category groupings are blank in the “CODE” column and include all  crops until the next category (XLSX format)
• NCO_Codes_2006 (converted from Appendix-2) – unsure which vintage of NCO codes these are drawn from, but this is the tabular form [converted using smallPDF.com]  of the PDF documentation (XLSX format)

India – Labor Data

• National Classification of Occupations, 1968 (NCO68) – 3-digit/1-digit occupation codes (XLS)
• NCO-1968 to NCO-2004 conversion table: 1-digit/3-digit occupation (PDF)

India – Geographic Resources

• Mapping Indian Districts Across Census Years, 1971-2001 (Kumar and Somanathan 2009, PDF)
• State and District Boundary Changes in India, 1961-2001 (Kumar and Somanathan 2015, PDF)

Python & Programming

• FuzzyWuzzy and a FuzzyWuzzy Python/Stata tutorial on string matching across datasets (files)
• Sublime Text 3 – my Python editor of choice
• Atom – all-purpose text editor with great add-on capabilities
• Seaborn – attractive alternative to matplotlib and pyplot for data visualization
• Homebrew – the best Mac OS package manager
• pythex – Python regular expressions tester

Survey Data Analysis and Visualization

• SuAVE: Survey Analysis via Visual Exploration
• Color Brewer 2.0: Color Advice for Cartography
• Colorpicker: Brings Gregor Aisch’s recommendations within reach

Climate Data Tools

• Climate Data Operators (CDO) – indispensable suite of statistical tools for working with climate data; Python bindings by Try2Code
• netCDF Operator (NCO) tools –  command-line tools for working with netCDFs
• Panoply – straightforward visualization tool for netCDF/HDFx/GRIB files

Economic Development – General Resources

• Demographic & Health Surveys (DHS Program)
• Markus Eberhardt’s incredibly-helpful Development Economics data link dump
• BREAD’s list of resources

Food and Agriculture Data 

• CountrySTAT

US Data

• Panel Study of Income Dynamics (University of Michigan)