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

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