# 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](https://app.simplenote.com/publish/PhskQ7) - [Gemini](https://gemini.google.com/share/b471567398e5)