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We are heading to IndiaFOSS 2026 this weekend!
September 26–27 at NIMHANS Convention Centre, Bengaluru.
@nileena_suresh Suresh and @TheDataAreClean from Data For India will host a hands-on booth to showcase our work on “the last mile of public data”. Together, we will explore what stands between data being publicly available and being genuinely usable. Come meet us on the 1st floor!
Also at IndiaFOSS, @Rukmini will speak about "Telling India’s Story Through Data" on Sunday, September 27, at 11:45 am in Hall 1.
Register here: fossunited.org/indiafoss/202…
#OpenData #PublicData #OpenSource #FOSS #DataForIndia
I really love @Inkyfool's work and I usually see myself drenched in fun reading his substack. It is like breathing in the air of pre-technology times that flew from points of literary excellence to those not. all while learning a quip or two in the English markforsythauthor.substack.c…
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Best plural forms ranked:
1) internal (tours de force, culs-de-sac)
2) ending in -i (magi)
3) is to es (oases)
4) suppletive (people)
5) vowel changes (geese)
6) f to ves (thieves)
7) adding en (oxen)
8) no change (moose)
9) adding es, ies (boxes, babies)
10) adding s
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Vir Vikram Yadav, head of @DGCAIndia is certainly not communicating well to his boss @RamMNK
12 hrs after the incident of Phuket-Delhi flight on 4th of August, the minister called it a turbulence, while there was no such mention of it in the pilot's report filed with DGCA
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How stalled models, missed deadlines, and staff burnout led to the unraveling of Google’s DeepMind.
Full story in @FortuneMagazine here: fortune.com/2026/08/10/how-s…
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Our Kharadi Corporator family already solved it and they’re about to become billionaire!
They will be first water billionaire family
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We have a little on that here (also by @akwaghmare) dataforindia.com/higher-educ…
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To understand this, it helps to think of this in steps: among the youngest adults, the share of graduates is highest, and the share of those with a secondary ed is also high. As a result, far fewer of them are less educated - far fewer have only a primary ed or are illiterate
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This is an excellent piece of data based analysis to address the biggest challenge in India - namely, unemployment of youth. Especially, educated aspiring youth.
Kudos to @Rukmini and @akwaghmare of @dataforin for this kind is work.
This level of analysis is of tremendous value to @naandi_india for our annual strategy which trains for jobs annually 300,000 undergraduates and places more than 50% of them in formal sector jobs through our corporate linkages. We are now planning to increase this to a million youth per annum in the immediate years.
Here’s a sneak preview of the graphs from the piece that depicts the nationwide spread of these aspiring graduates and their choice of subjects. Job readiness is an altogether another subject which no college in India teaches anyway.
New on @dataforin: @akwaghmare's work on India's graduates - what they study for their undergraduate programmes, what parts of the country they come from, and how all of this is changing. dataforindia.com/graduates/
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New Data Byte: Women's absence from India's workforce is most evident in their 20s, by @akwaghmare
The share of people in an age group who are either working or looking for work is known as the labour force participation rate (LFPR). The LFPR is an important indicator to measure whether most adults are in the productive economy. In India, female labour force participation is far lower than that of males at every age.
Across the world, labour force participation rises with age once adults complete their education, and then falls in old age. This is certainly the case for men in India.
Men's LFPR increases sharply from the teenage years until the mid-twenties, and remains at nearly 100% during the prime working years. It then reduces slowly until the age of 60, and sharply after that.
The likelihood of an Indian woman being in the labour force (two in five) is half of that of an Indian man (four in five). In India's Periodic Labour Force Survey, women report household duties, including child care and chores, as the main reason for staying out of the labour force.
But the gap between male and female labour force participation rates is widest in their twenties and thirties. The main reason for this demographic blip in women's labour participation is child-bearing and child-rearing. About 70% of births in India are now to women in their twenties.
#Jobs #Women #Employment #Work #India #DataForIndia
ALT Title: Labour force participation by gender and age (2024) Sub-title: Women's absence from India's workforce is most evident in their 20s Explanation: The chart compares labour force participation rates for women and men in India across six age groups. Women's participation is lower than men's at every age. The gap is widest in the twenties, when 37% of women are in the labour force compared with 85% of men, and in the thirties, when 54% of women participate compared with 99% of men. Men's participation stays very high through the prime working ages, while women's participation peaks at 60% in the forties. Source: Periodic Labour Force Survey, National Statistics Office Attribution: Data For India | CC BY
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Today we're releasing a new feature on @dataforin: Data Bytes - one question, (lots of research) one short answer and one chart, every week. Read our first three Data Bytes here, and subscribe to get the next one in your inbox on Monday.
At Data For India, we spend a lot of time on big questions about India: female employment, household spending, fertility, health, the economy, and more. These often require deep research, large datasets, and long-form insights.
But sometimes, you just want a clear answer to one sharp question:
When will India’s population stop growing?
What makes up India’s GDP?
Which diseases affect Indians the most today?
We are now ready to answer those questions for you.
Introducing Data Bytes: one chart about India every week, and the story behind the data.
Every Monday, starting 6th July, we will answer one simple question you might have about India, through one easy-to-understand chart and the context you need to interpret and use the information.
You can already read the first three Data Bytes on our platform, and subscribe now to get the next one in your inbox: dataforindia.com/data-bytes/…
If there is a question about India you would like us to answer, write to us at [email protected].
Abhishek Waghmare retweeted
At Data For India, we spend a lot of time on big questions about India: female employment, household spending, fertility, health, the economy, and more. These often require deep research, large datasets, and long-form insights.
But sometimes, you just want a clear answer to one sharp question:
When will India’s population stop growing?
What makes up India’s GDP?
Which diseases affect Indians the most today?
We are now ready to answer those questions for you.
Introducing Data Bytes: one chart about India every week, and the story behind the data.
Every Monday, starting 6th July, we will answer one simple question you might have about India, through one easy-to-understand chart and the context you need to interpret and use the information.
You can already read the first three Data Bytes on our platform, and subscribe now to get the next one in your inbox: dataforindia.com/data-bytes/…
If there is a question about India you would like us to answer, write to us at [email protected].
Abhishek Waghmare retweeted
Thanks for your critique, Janet. We actually tried a couple of episodes where House (Hugh Laurie) (please put the brackets in the right place) gets it right first time, but they were only 6 minutes long. NBC weren’t happy. Then we tried some where House never gets it right and the patient dies. The audience wasn’t happy.
One could apply your trenchant analysis to other art forms: JS Bach wrote 30 Goldberg variations on the same chord structure; Frida Kahlo painted 50 portraits of herself; Henry Moore, what??
The point is, or was, variations on a theme; if all you see is hospital, medical blah blah, then it wasn’t meant for you.
Nonetheless, I look forward to your first novel!
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India's female labour force participation rate (LFPR) - the share of women who are either working or seeking work - is growing, but low by global standards.
Historically, a majority of adult Indian women reported that they were attending to household duties and were not available for paid work. However, recent trends show an increase in female LFPR, particularly among rural Indian women. In 2018, about one in four women in rural India reported being in the labour force; by 2024, this number had climbed to nearly half of all rural women.
Workers are classified by the time spent on work in a particular area as "principal workers" (persons who worked in one activity for a relatively long part of the last 365 days), "subsidiary workers" (persons who worked for more than 30 days but less than six months on a particular activity), and "both principal and subsidiary workers" (those who worked for most of the year on one activity, and for a small part of the year on another activity).
Most Indian workers are only principal workers, meaning that they work on one activity for most of the year, and this category has steadily grown for both men and women. However, a large part of the recent rise in workers among women, particularly in rural areas, was in subsidiary, or part-time, work.
#Work #Women #Employment #LFPR #India #DataForIndia
ALT Title: Women in rural India have seen a significant rise in subsidiary work Sub-title: Female principal and subsidiary workers in India, over time Explanation: Stacked bars comparing rural vs urban women workers in 1994, 2012 and 2024, split into principal workers, subsidiary workers, and those who did both. Rural women workers rose from about 105 million (1994) to 154 million (2024), with subsidiary workers increasing from 30 million to 47 million. Urban women workers rose from about 18 million (1994) to 50 million (2024), with most being principal workers and a small subsidiary segment (7 million in 2024). Source: Employment and Unemployment Surveys; Periodic Labour Force Survey (National Statistical Office); Census of India; Population Projections (Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India) Attribution: Data For India | CC BY
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Good investigative work by @Tweetsandeep on HDFC Bank's deal with MSRDC on paying the latter preferential interest rates on their savings deposits.
Do pay some attention to the portion that points to the RBI's swift notice, calming everyone that all's well with the bank.
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Asked my driver,"Why r u late?""Sir. Came by Cycle.""What happened to motorcycle."His reply,"Sir, it is kept at home now as a showpiece.":)
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The austerity measures announced by the govt of India is an indicator that the economy is in total mess.
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New on @dataforin: our resident demographer @nandlalsumit looks at how India currently estimates births and deaths, and what could be improved. A short thread: dataforindia.com/crs-srs-acc…
