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Pradhan Mantri Schemes: Response on Google Trends

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I solicited a list of schemes or programmes or laws that the current Central Government of India has initiated. Today being Nov 12, 2019 the Prime Minister of India is Narendra Modi and the ruling coalition is NDA (National Democratic Alliance); the main party is BJP (or Bharatiya Janata Party). It is widely believed that the previous Central Government was the same. Truth - The Prime Minister was the same. NDA was the ruling coalition and BJP was the biggest party in the coalition from May 2014 - May 2019. This post is about how people have responded to various schemes or Yojana and programmes initiated by the government. Most of the names of the schemes I found from FB solicitation. Some were found by Google while looking for trends. This is the list of those Yojana (schemes), programmes or missions. I have divided those in 3 groups. The division is according to Google search volume. With each group look at the plot of how many Google searches were done all throughout India. T

Going post-truth with data science

I enjoy talking; I enjoy working with numbers; combine the two and you get a data scientist, curious as a cat. This blog is going to be about how to use data for fun and/or for understanding what is popular. This blog is not about the complex truth, but what people perceive as truth or what's the opinion. For example, cow dung isn't any better than ground coffee to shield from radioactivity. But there is a faction of people who believe that cow dung can be used to protect from radioactivity. This blog isn't to explore the science behind th idea; it is to explore people's opinion. Which people? Mostly from India, and more importantly those who use internet. Also, I don't want to get too technical with data scraping; this will primarily be my "fun" work. Data used here will be gathered by tools like Google Trends or readily available libraries in Python for scraping data. On the other hand, I will try to get into statistical details about reading da