I love to talk about design and data visualisation. Over the years, I have instructed students and professionals on data representation, geographic visualisation and visual storytelling.
Interviews and Features
The Visualising Data Newsletter
May 2024 •Mentions a Reuters visual story on how election pollsters make sense of the numbers.
DataWrapper Data Vis Dispatch
May 2023 •Features visualisations from a Reuters investigation on the public health risks of increasing human-bat contact.
DataJournalism Blog
Dec 2021 •An interview about the design and development of the Reuters COVID-19 and Vaccination tracker.
Flowing Data
Jun 2021 •Features a graphic on India’s vaccine procurement compared to other countries.
Talks and Workshops
Citizens for Public Leadership
May 2024 •A two-day workshop on visualising data using MS Excel and DataWrapper
CHRIST University, Bangalore
Feb 2024 •A guest lecture at the Department of Media Studies about turning numbers into compelling narratives.
Citizens for Public Leadership
Dec 2023 •A presentation on data visualization for social impact and how to get started.
ProApp community workshop
May 2023 •A workshop with interface designers about getting comfortable with data and making meanningful charts.
NewsWriters.in
Sep 2022 •A session on using webscrapers to build datasets for the Data Storytelling course.
ADPList community session
May 2022 •A community workshop on how to effectively tell stories with data visualizations.
Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore
Nov 2021 •A presentation on information design in journalism, highlighting some of my work at Reuters.
Inflection Point – Indian Institute of Management Lucknow
Mar 2021 •A presentation at the the Product Management fest on Design Thinking and UX/UI prototyping, followed by a short prototyping contest and discussion.
In the classroom
National Institute of Design, Bangalore
Jan 2024 •A three-week long module on geo-visualisation using QGIS, narrative cartography and interactive visual storytelling.
Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore
Oct 2023 •A two-day workshop on visualising data and storytelling.
Data Visualization Society
Oct 2023 •1:1 Dataviz Mentorship Program.
National Institute of Design, Haryana
Aug 2023 •A two-week long guest lecture with the Industrial Design students about a data-driven approach to system design.
National Institute of Design, Gandhinagar
Feb 2023 •A week long module with Strategic Design Management students on data visualisation and information design.
National Institute of Design, Bangalore
Feb 2023 •A week long workshop on geo-visualisation using QGIS along with guidance on the Narrative Cartography module.
JK Lakshmipat University, Jaipur
Sep 2022 •A two-week long module with undergraduate design students on data representation and visualisation.
National Institute of Design, Jorhat
Apr 2022 •A two week long module with Communication Design students on data visualisation, information mapping and UX design.
National Institute of Design, Bangalore
Mar 2022 •A week long workshop with Information Design students on getting started with scrollytelling and mapmaking.
Resources and Tools
CodeSchool: Front-end web
Based on my own learnings, here’s a practical approach to get you started on the path of interactive storytelling on the web using
Bootstrapandai2html.CodeSchool: Web Scraping
Having ready-to-use data is cool, but what about data that is not readily downloadable from the internet? Get started with scraping information from the web using
JavascriptandGitHub actions.Learning DataViz
A compilation of a number of useful resources, that once lived only in my browser bookmarks, which can help you in your data visualisation journey.
Cartography in QGIS
Maps are amazing! These notes are a collation of my experience and expertise which will help you make some of your own maps using
QGISand use them to visualise geographic data.Print Maps
A tool to print maps using your custom Mapbox styles, based on the project by Matthew Petroff.