About
- Data Humanist
- Storylabs at Gramener
- Co-Author of From Data to Stories
With one foot in technology & the other in the arts, I create data stories & mentor people on data storytelling. I also help build products that make you fall in love with business reporting.
Reviews for ‘From Data to Stories’:
- Data Comics meet cricket data in the irrepressible “Data to Stories” by Paul Laughlin in customerinsightleader.com
- From Data to Stories: A superb use of cricket as a teaching method by Arunabha Sengupta in cricmash.com
- Eine Buchbesprechung zu “Storytelling with Data Comics” by Annette Hexelschneider in wissendenken.com
- How Can We Use Comics to Tell Data Stories? by Neil Richards in Nightingale - the Journal of the Data Visualization Society
Data Visualization & Storytelling:
- A searchable database of Trump’s Sir stories
- Contributing to Comicgen - the open source comic creator
- Interactive comic of the Nashville Presidential Debate
- Interactive comic of the Cleveland Presidential Debate
- Challenges women face
- Contributed to My name is Akbar Khan
- Words - a comic dictionary
- Contributed to World Bank: Innovation, Tech & Entrepreneurship
- A trivia-viz narrative of the Olympics
- Challenges funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Lionel Messi’s shots
- Sachin’s world cup runs
- Trump’s tweets
- Elvis Presley jukebox
- Kishore Kumar’s bollywood numbers
- Every point scored by Kobe Bryant
- MS Dhoni’s ODI Sixes
- Senator voting patterns
- Shakespeare’s sonnets
- Colors of Amul Ads
- Ease of Doing Business
- Las Vegas showdown
- Twitter rankings during the CNBC debate
- Themes of the CNN debate
- Will the Republicans do better at Simi valley?
- Ben Carson’s FB page
- Most searched Republican candidates on Google
- Hillary Clinton bashing award
- Contributed to We need more women judges
- To Brexit or not?
- Know your investments
- Wimbledon one-siders
- Redesigning Cricket scorecards
- Ball by ball Cricket scorecards
- World cup story
- World cup with Khaleej Times
- The Untouchables
- Lone rangers
- Hundreds scored in the Cricket World Cup
- World Cup Coverage report
- Readability of constitutions
- Amitabh’s tweets
- Every touchdown of NFL 2015
- The toss factor
- Game, set & match Ms Williams
- Euro 2016, the weighing scale
- World leaders on Twitter
- Killing mocking birds
- Text-Alike
- What’s Trending
- Crimes against women
- Bang for the buck?
Writing:
- Use the deductive structure to create data story gifs
- Lessons learned from creating physical data visualizations
- Saying it with gifs
- In defense of Excel
- Big data needs you Mr. Shekar
- Creating Map Stories
- Data Comic Story Patterns
- Create Comics in Google Sheets using Comicgen
Mentions & Recognitions:
- The only way to watch the US Presidential Debate by Naked Data
- My name is Akbar, I’m carrying the wheel by Naked Data
- Your data story needs more than data by Juice Analytics
- 2nd place in the CGDV hackathon
- How to experiment with visualization & handle critiques by Allison Torban
- Best of the visualisation web - June 2018 by Andy Kirk
- Best of the visualisation web - Feb 2018 by Andy Kirk
- Best of the visualisation web - Nov 2017 by Andy Kirk
- This Week’s Top Ten in Data Journalism by the Global Investigative Journalism Network
- Visualizing voting similarities in the Senate by Alberto Cairo
- How to improve this visualization of voting in the U.S. Congress? by Andrew Gelman
- A makeover of the visualization of voting similarities in the Senate by Alberto Cairo
- Best of the visualisation web - Aug 2017 by Andy Kirk
- US Elections 2016: 50 new interactive dataviz by Visualoop
- Best of the visualisation web - Apr 2016 by Andy Kirk
- Shakespeare Resources by St. Francis Xavier Catholic School System
- Interactive Inspiration by Visualoop
- Visualizing Shakespeare’s sonnets by Alberto Cairo
- Wikipedia Sonnets: Study Resources by Alberto Cairo
Citations:
- Metre of an antique song: Classical echoes in William Shakespeare’s Sonnets by Pedro Riesco García
- Exploring Citizens’ Constitution Readability Profile in Selected Anglophone African Countries by William Kodom Gyasi & Julius NyerereTettey
- Context and Humor: Understanding Amul advertisements of India by Radhika Mamidi