Karnataka Learning Partnership (KLP) has created a web app using the data released by District Information System for Education (DISE) that will allow you to explore data on all primary schools, public and private, in Karnataka. The data can be filtered on the basis of Education districts, blocks and clusters as well as by MP and MLA aggregations and by PIN codes. It shows the number of schools, classrooms, students, teachers, libraries and toilets apart from also listing breakup of private and public schools and teachers and students on the basis of gender, apart from listing the number of schools on the basis of language of instruction. This information is available for the district and cluster level and it also gives you an option to search for a specific school to view its demographic information. The service uses data from DISE's annual report to display demographic information, funding offered and infrastructure available for public schools in the state, district or cluster. KLP's app is built on top of OpenStreetMap and has a simple interface with the map occupying three-fourth of the screen. On the right hand side it has a panel where it lists all the information depending on your selection. It also provides some basic filtering tools apart from letting you compare data from previous years. To create the app, KLP has filtered out schools that may not be primary schools, done geo-processing to find latitude and longitude points for many of the schools in the DISE database and then…
