THE DEFINITE, ILLUSTRATED & ANNOTATED ANTHOLOGY OF MY VARIED PASTIMES
We filed an RTI request with Bangalore's metro authority asking how many people traveled on the metro and got a file with 1.2M rows of data on ridership. Where has the new Yellow Line impacted the city the most? Or what are the most popular metro trips in the city?
CBFC Watch is an independent research project dedicated to exploring film censorship actions in India. It is the first public, searchable database of censorship information for nearly 18,000 films released between 2017 and 2025.
Student showcase for my open-source course module on web design taught at DA-IICT. Including links to student submissions and all course material.
A tool to explore the National Time Use Survey data. Run complex SQL queries to answer questions on how different demographic groups in India spend their time; no coding knowledge required. Fully static, client-side explorer for over 10 million rows of data
A set of data visualizations for a Rest of World story on how countries collaborate for AI research.
I looked at data from Indian elections to find similar-sounding candidates and analyze some of the different ways they show up. We then tried turning those similarity scores back into visuals which you can play around with. Illustrations by Reechik Banerjee
Natural drains crisscross Bangalore and are often the places which are the first to flood. We mapped where these are.
I started a data-viz blog with my friend Vivek to explore our many and varied interests, giving us a space to work on them. We have a public ideas page that tracks what we're working on. Published without a strict schedule.
{patchwork} package.
An interactive story on the lives of Ukrainian refugees visualizing data based on comprehensive surveys conducted by the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM). Developed at Revisual Labs with Divya Ribeiro and Surbhi Bhatia.
Explore data on MPs and election candidates in India
Contributed a small animated and interactive visualization showing the loss of native vegetation in an area in Brazil.
An interactive tool that lets UK residents see the extent of sewage spills near their postcode
Mapping sewage spills across the UK for an Unearthed investigation
My thesis, which resulted in what I call cookbook of qualitative & quantitative methods for assessing walkability in India cities.
For an assignment in college, I tried to explore the history of NGO funding in India, focusing on the impact of private funding on healthcare sector activities.
Worked remotely with on-ground reporters to help illustrate visuals for a tragic incident in Thailand
Following up on the 2022 Pakistan floods with striking visuals that show how key regions went underwater.
Visualizing the extent of the 2022 floods in Pakistan
A story on the heatwave and resulting drought in Europe, with Samuel Granados.
First byline at Reuters Graphics (and my first breaking news story!). I analyzed historical earthquake data with ggplot
A full-fledged project archival system for I developed for students at Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology.
A fun project where I analyzed Whatsapp chat for my college group. I wanted to experiment with text analysis and R.
I designed and animated an explainer video for my news manifesto project.
Co-founded and ran a newsletter at Srishti. To this day, probably Srishti's only such publication. We had a readership of nearly 300 people, including students and faculty.
How do different Indian news channels tweet? My first data storytelling microsite, a remanant of the era when the Twitter API was a thing. Might be broken now.
A few of the hundreds of emails I've received over the last 5 years from children around the world who believe that the website I made would really take them to Hogwarts. Sorry guys.
This isn't professional work, I was just told to make an advertisement for a useless product. Even though its rather juvenile, this video is something I'm very proud of. Starring my friend Shounak Karmalkar.