The proposal was to create a better way to access information of Members of Parliament.

Today, there is no easy way to access information of an MP. For example, a list maintained by the Parliament of India website forces citizens to search for their MP manually or using the ‘browser find’.

Part of the SaveRTI campaign involved collecting data of MPs, for citizens to raise their voices against amendments to the act.

The new feature creates an interactive way to search for respective MPs via the getRTI portal to express concerns or find out more information about them.

Prajwala Manchikatla, who was working on this project created beautiful interactive visualizations, using D3.js, in 36 hours.

The data was laid out on maps and citizens can access information of MPs from their constituencies.

This latest addition to the getRTI project is yet to be deployed onto the live portal after a bit more tweaking, but, will bring in an easier way to access data and reach out your MPs.

If you have an idea and would like to get started with it, but missed the previous edition, join the next edition during November 16–17, 2013.

Originally Published on October 14, 2013

Kenneth and Shweta, students of Information and Interface Design at the National Institute of Design in Bangalore have designed the concept and created a visualization of the Indian railway networks using D3.

The Indian railways is one of the world’s largest railway networks comprising 115,000 km (71,000 mi) of track over a route of 65,000 km (40,000 mi) and 7,500 stations. It transports more than 25 million passengers everyday. That makes it over 9 billion annually.

The visualization was created using a dataset, which can be found here. You can try out the prototype with around 40 stations, here.

[via Inosaint]

Originally Published on October 4, 2013