Datasets on 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
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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
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
- Seaborn – attractive alternative to matplotlib and pyplot for data visualization
- Homebrew – likely the best Mac OS package manager
- pythex – Python regular expressions tester
Survey Data Analysis and Visualization
- SuAVE: Survey Analysis via Visual Exploration
Climate Data Tools
- Climate Data Operators (CDO) – indispensable suite of statistical tools for working with climate data; Python bindings by Try2Code
- Panoply – straightforward visualization tool for netCDF/HDFx/GRIB files
Economic Development – General Resources
- Demographic & Health Surveys (DHS Program)
- Markus Eberhardt’s super-helpful Development Economics data link dump
US Data
- Panel Study of Income Dynamics (University of Michigan)
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