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Mapping The Red Headed League is a fascinating reconstruction of the actual places mentioned (or hinted at) by Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Red Headed League by Aman Bhargava. We cross-reference railway timetables, scrutinize Victorian newspaper reports and historical incidents, scour government records, analyze meteorological data, and, in my specific case, pore over Ordnance Survey maps to make the pieces fit. What struck me is how little London has changed, how much old data is available, and what love it takes to reconstruct such a journey! ...

US Zip Codes Map. Type in the ZIP code, and interactively see which areas it maps to.

Stand clear of closing doors. Ever wonder what the London Underground Map would look like if it were geographically accurate?

Bought one of these Eicher Maps. They’re fantastic. I sure wish I had access to the GIS on their website! Have a whole bunch of cool ideas.

The homo sapien footprint. Shows the population density of the world. Here’s the result at a glance. The densest spots: Europe, India, the East coasts of China and the US. The sparsest: north Canada, Sibera, Sahara, the Andes, the Himalayas, and most of Australia. via Plastic

Cybergeography: the geography of the Internet.

Why is America named after Amerigo Vespucci, and not Columbus? Perhaps because Vespucci reached there first. Or perhaps he marketed America better. Ironic.

India Data Visualisation People Aman Bhargava Amit Kapoor - Narrative Advisors Anand Katakam Anand S Arun Ganesh - Maps Arvind Venkatadri Avinash Celestine - How India Lives Team Gaurav Godhwani - CivicDataLab Gurman Bhatia - Revisual Labs IndiaSpend Team - Public interest graphics Karthik Shashidhar Pallav Nadhani - FusionCharts Pramit Bhattacharya - Data for India Pratap Vardhan - Stats of India Priti Pandurangan Rasagy Sharma Richie Lionell Ritvvij Parrikh - Times Internet Rukmini Shrinivasan - Data for India Sajjad Anwar - Maps Shailesh Kumar - Jio Srinivasan Ramani - The Hindu Sudalai Rajkumar (SRK) - H2O.ai Venkatesh Rajamanickam - IITB Vignesh Radhakrishnan - The Hindu Vijay Natarajan - IISc Vikram Nayak - ChartBoss Outside India Arvind Satyanarayana - MIT Curran Kelleher - Independent Rishabh Srivastava Peripheral Amar Devadason - RRD Anantharaman Mani Chakradhar Saswade - NID Indranil Chakraborty Nathalie Riche - Microsoft Research Rajkamal Aich Rohit Saran Sugata Srinivasaraju Zainab Bawa - Hasgeek People I have not yet met Aakanksha Chowdhery - Google DeepMind - Model behavior visuals Abhinav Vajpayee - Razorpay - Fintech economy metrics Abhishek Waghmare - Data for India - Researcher and writer focusing on deep dives into employment, economy, and public data. Aditya Goenka - Independent - Power BI training Amanat Kaur - Independent - Identity-driven data art Amit Kumar Das - Visual BI - Executive dashboards Anoushka Dalmia - DataLeads - Health data journalism Anurag Rao - Reuters Graphics - Illustrator and Information Designer; combines artistic illustration with rigorous data reporting. Apar Gupta - Strategic Advisor - Policy communication Arjun Gopal - Independent - Generative visual systems Ashris Choudhury - India in Pixels - Cultural motion graphics Ayushi Kar - The Reporters’ Collective - Data journalist known for investigative work on electoral bonds and political funding. Bhanu Kamapantula - Independent - Public data scraping/viz Chitraksh Sharma - CivicDataLab - Social justice visuals Dipanjan Sarkar - Independent - Visual NLP & ML Divya Ribeiro - Revisual Labs / Godrej Design Lab - Project Lead for the award-winning Building a Climate Conscious India report. Harshit Agrawal - Independent - A pioneer in AI and generative art in India; explores the intersection of human-machine creativity (often associated with BeFantastic). Herry Gulabani - IIHS - Climate risk mapping Ipsa Jain Kabir Agarwal - Independent - Climate & agri data Kanika Gupta - Independent - Civic storytelling Kannan Sundar - The Hindu - National Design Editor at The Hindu; leads the team responsible for award-winning infographics and print layouts (SND, Malofiej). Karthikeya G S - Reuters Graphics - Won a Bronze at the Information is Beautiful Awards 2023 for Screens of August. Krish Naik - Independent - Technical ML/Viz tutorials Manish Gupta - Google Research - Knowledge graphs Nandita Kumar - Independent - New media artist known for complex installations that visualize environmental data and sound (e.g., Gali Art Project, Khoj). Nasr Ul Hadi - Newsroom data strategy Natasha Singh - Timeblur Naveen Bagalkot - Srishti Manipal - Data physicalization Osama Manzar - DEF - Digital inclusion mapping Padmini Ray Murray - Design Beku Paresh Dobariya - GetOnData - BI consulting Parvathy Arangath - Reuters Graphics / NID Alum - Won the ‘Rising Star’ Gold at the Information is Beautiful Awards 2023. Piyanka Jain - Aryng - Visual decision frameworks Prasann Prem - VizDiner - Tableau mentorship Prasanta Kumar Dutta - Reuters Graphics Prashanth Southekal - DBP Institute - Data monetization Puru Shinde - Independent - 3D/WebGL visualization Raj Bhagat Palanichamy - WRI India - Satellite imagery & GIS Ramprakash Ramamoorthy - Zoho - LLM/UI interfaces Ruchi Sharma - Independent - Generative code art Samarth Bansal - Independent - Data-led investigations Sannuta Raghu - Scroll.in - Head of the AI Lab at Scroll.in; leads innovative news product experiments and data-led investigations. Sheetal Agarwal - Tableau Visionary - Enterprise analytics Shreya Suri - Independent - Long-form visual stories Shriya Anand - IIHS - Urban spatial research Shyamlal Yadav - The Indian Express - Senior Editor and RTI expert; a pioneer in using the Right to Information Act for data-driven investigative reporting. Sudev Kiyada - Reuters Graphics - Graphics Journalist based in Bangalore; winner of an Information is Beautiful Award (2023) for work on North Korea. Sumeet Moghe - Thoughtworks - Delivery system visuals Surbhi Bhatia - Independent - Information designer recognized by FlowingData for projects like “Battle of the Chocolate Bars”. Tanay Sukumar - Mint - Leads the Plain Facts team at Mint, overseeing one of India’s most consistent daily data journalism sections. Tarun Deep Girdher - NID The Ken Data Team - Business narrative charts Tushar Arora - Google - Observability UX Upasana Nattoji Roy - Switch Studio - Motion designer and artist working with interactive installations and data narratives (e.g., Give Me A Sign). Vardhini Kalyanaraman - Independent - Data literacy comics Vasanth Kumar - Independent - Dashboard UI architecture Vijdan Mohammad Kawoosa - Reuters Graphics - Data and Graphics Journalist; formerly with Hindustan Times, known for mapping and conflict visualization. Vineeth Balasubramaniam - IIT Hyderabad - Explainable AI (XAI) Partha Talukdar - Google Research Sources Amit Kapoor’s list Gemini