AidData - Locating International Development

Partner
AidData (USAID Higher Education Solutions Network)

Challenge Questions
Where are international aid projects located? Find the latitude and longitude of international aid projects based on a wide variety of input datatypes, and compare your results to a dataset produced by human geocoders reading the same input data.

Datasets and details:

Data related to international aid, shape file boundaries representing administrative units within Malawi (could be used as relevant units of analysis for accuracy assessment).

Input documents: https://github.com/albert-decatur/malawi-docs-ocr/tree/master/input
Input documents run through tesseract-ocr (TSV): https://github.com/albert-decatur/malawi-docs-ocr/tree/master/output
"Truth" dataset for comparison: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B67CQP1S9K-TY2Y5Yjd5TkUyb28/view?usp=sharing