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Continue reading →: The closest Lok Sabha seat race in 2019 election
In the previous blogs, I was discussing about the trends in winning margins over all the election years. We see that seats with less victory margins are increasing over the election years. In the quest to find out which can be tagged as ‘Swing’ seats, I identified seats where the…
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Continue reading →: Seats with very close victory margin in 2019 India National Elections
In the previous post, I mentioned that there are 39 seats where parties won with less than 1% vote difference and 23 seats where parties won with 1%-2% vote difference. Together there are 62 seats with very less vote difference, and they are close elections. If the results shift in…
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Continue reading →: Constituencies in India that have been most predictable and non-predictable
In my previous post, I generated a plot which binned constituencies based on number of parties that won in that constituency. We got a plot that showed majority of the constituencies having elected 3-8 parties. A few of them fell in the extremes in the plot having elected less than…
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Continue reading →: Binning constituencies based on their’ elected parties
The first set of questions for anyone wanting to know about a constituency is – Which party does he/she belong to? I tried to dig more into these questions. I retrieved all the constituencies and identified/counted the parties elected so far for each of the constituency. Apart from basic questions,…
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Continue reading →: CSV File with all Indian election results from 1951 to 2019 for download
I am attaching the link to a CSV file which has the election results for all the elections held so far. Other than for recent election years 2014 and 2019, all the other elections have the downloads as PDF file in India Election Commission website. I wrote python script to…
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Continue reading →: Green Chemistry: Being Proactive and Not Reactive
Chemical Industry has improved the life style and standard of living of people. The discovery of petroleum, research and investment done during World War II, rising population, increased urbanization were some of the factors which drove the growth of the Chemical Industry in the 20th century. While meeting the above…
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Continue reading →: The year 2010
The year 2010 will see much more activities from power, energy, infrastructure and and automobile sectors. With economy expected to show positive progress, these sectors are believed to provide the stimulus towards the growth. Demand from these sectors will help the chemical industry. The investor confidence is expected to increase…
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Continue reading →: Reliance Industry’s bid for acquiring LyondellBasell
The first blog analyzed the acquisition of Rohm & Hass by Dow Chemicals and Ciba by BASF. There was further analysis of other companies that could go about with a similar strategy of acquisition. A month later after writing that blog, Reliance Industries (the largest petrochemical company in India and…
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Continue reading →: Increasing Product development costs and decreasing length of Product Life Cycle
A major problem in chemical industry has been that product development costs are going up whereas the product life cycle is getting shortened. Especially in this industry, which is heavily based on research, it is of a big concern. Product development costs have gone up for reasons such as: On…
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Continue reading →: Realizing growth in Indian Chemical Industry
Indian Chemical Industry is the 13th largest chemical industry in the world. As of 2008, its size is approximately $35b which is 3% of Indian GDP (Source: http://chemicals.nic.in/chem1.htm). The industry employs about 1million people. KPMG in its report released in the year 2002 assessed that under optimistic and realistic conditions the…