Reading Time: 2 mins If there’s an award for consistency, there’s only one constituency that would win that award: Chhindwara in Madhya Pradesh. In every single election since India’s independence, the constituency has voted for the Indian National Congress. […]
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Reading Time: 2 mins 2009 was a fairly unremarkable year in terms of the number of candidates that stood for elections. Chennai South fielded 43 candidates, and like in 2004, had the highest number of candidates. The 2004, 1999,
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Reading Time: 2 mins One question that we’re repeatedly asked at Gramener is “Who’ll win the election?” While we’re not going to answer that outright, here’s something we uncovered during this quest. We were looking for a constituency that
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Reading Time: 2 mins Yesterday, we kicked off the CNN-IBN Microsoft Analytics centre, a website visually analysing the historical and upcoming Indian elections. It’s hosted at ibnlive.in.com/general-elections-2014/analytics/ as well as at bing.com/elections (not to mention Gramener’s own gramener.com/election/). You’ll
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Reading Time: 2 mins Data Visualization Is The Future – Here’s Why Big Data is a powerful discovery tool for companies seeking to glean new insights. But without the right framework for understanding it, much of that knowledge may