Jun 2025
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Accepting submissions till 15 Apr 2025, 11:59 PM
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Fundamentals of process, design & communication for dataviz
Practices of data exploration, interface & dashboard design for dataviz
Use of new mediums, approaches, AI & tech to shape how we do dataviz in future
Standard Talk: Deep-dive presentations that allow you to thoroughly explore complex topics and share personal learnings, insights, and journey through your work.
Duration: 30 minutes (25 min presentation + 5 min Q&A)
Lightning Talk: Fast-paced, focused presentations designed to deliver maximum impact in minimal time. Perfect for introducing novel concepts or sharing specific solutions.
Duration: 15 minutes (12 min presentation + 3 min Q&A)
Unconference / Birds of Feather (BOF) Session: Organise a community-driven gathering that bring together other participants with shared interests. These sessions foster peer learning and networking through facilitated discussions on common interests, challenges and solutions.
Duration: 45 minutes
Hands-on Workshop: Curate an immersive learning experience that encourages creativity, practical application and skill development. Participants will gain hands-on experience while receiving direct guidance from expert instructors.
Duration: Half-day (3 hours) or Quarter-day (1.5 hours)
VizChitra (Alternative) Session: Have an interesting idea that doesn’t fit any of the above? Pitch it to us and let’s collaborate to bring it to life together!
Examples: A physical installation, a performance, a unique project showcase, anything else you can imagine?
BEFORE you begin writing your submission, please give some thought to the following:
The most successful talks and sessions are those where presenters are able to abstract an actionable insight from a common pain area, enlighten the audience about something new, provide a fresh perspective, and/or demonstrate innovation.
Here’s a guide for submitters to draft their presentations.
The call for submissions will be close on 15 April 2025. Submissions will be selected on a rolling basis.
Accepting submissions till 15 Apr 2025, 11:59 PM
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Mehar 1 Excel Sheet, 7 Lines of Business!{Describe your talk/session in 2-3 paragraphs} {Mention 1-2 takeaways from your session} What does designing for Travel, Health or Finance have in common? Me! And of course, it all starts with an Excel sheet. What I’d like to cover: more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Scalable data exploration processes
Submission Type: Lightning Talk
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Siddhartha Mukherjee Decoding Aesthetic Déjà VuIn this talk, I will share my experiments on “emulation of aesthetics” in generative (algorithmic) art and the use of physics-based systems as artists. I will show how aesthetic cues from a wide range of visual media can be incorporated into essentially abstract works, which then act as initial points of familiarity for the viewer (as aesthetic déjà vu), gently leading them into the unknown and u… more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Aesthetics & design principles
Submission Type: Standard Talk
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Dammalapati Sai Krishna Chitra-Lekha: Narrating Air Pollution Data.Schools taught us, “We cannot see air, only feel it.” But sadly now, we don’t just feel it deep inside our lungs but also see it with our red, itchy eyes. But there is more than what our irritable eye can see. more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Storytelling & structuring narratives
Submission Type: Hands-on Workshop
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PRASANTA KUMAR DUTTA The Eyes Have It: Understanding Perception-Driven Data VisualisationTalk Did you know that psychological principles developed over a century ago still shape modern graphic design and visual communication? The way we perceive patterns, group elements, and focus our attention is deeply rooted in human cognition—and understanding these principles can transform the way we communicate through data visualizations. more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Aesthetics & design principles
Submission Type: Standard Talk
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PRASANTA KUMAR DUTTA Learning to Be a Data Hunter-Gatherer: How to find, extract and collect data for your next visualisationWorkshop Having ready-to-use data is cool, but what about data that is not readily downloadable from the internet? What if a manual download is a hassle when there are lots of information and sources involved? more
Theme: Explore & Play
Topic: Process & practices of dataviz
Submission Type: Hands-on Workshop
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Siddhi Debiasing DataData tells us stories about the world. When data is missing, is misrepresented, or is false, it advertently shapes the way we engage with those around us. Data available for open content sharing online, currently lacks diversity in representation of people, places, and things. more
Theme: Explore & Play
Topic: State of data in India (availability, collection...)
Submission Type: Lightning Talk
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Harini Anand Decoding Tech Job Market Trends: Insights from 350,000 PostingsDecoding Tech Job Market Trends: Insights from 350,000 Postings more
Theme: Explore & Play
Topic: Domain-specific data visualisations
Submission Type: Lightning Talk
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Vikram Nayak ![]() The UX of Charts: Get the insight across, every timeSummary of the talk: How can you use the best of UX and product thinking to better communicate your data insight? How does human perception, cognition and psychology affect the success of your charts? more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Process & practices of dataviz
Submission Type: Standard Talk
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Anto Kriston 99 Problems but Data Ain’t One : Standup comedy performanceIn this stand-up comedy performance, I’ll take the audience on a hilarious ride through the quirks, contradictions, and downright bizarre patterns of human behavior—all backed by real (and ridiculous) data. From the absurdity of how we spend hours optimizing sleep with apps, only to doom-scroll until 3 AM, to the hilariously inconsistent trends in baby names influenced by TV shows, the set will r… more
Theme: Explore & Play
Topic: Experiential viz e.g. data art, installations
Submission Type: VizChitra (Alternative) Session
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Vivek What if data visualized itself?Describe your talk: Imagine if data didn’t need us to visualize it? What if, instead of designing static charts, we designed systems where data could shape its own form—emerging, evolving, and revealing insights on its own? more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Storytelling & structuring narratives
Submission Type: Standard Talk
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Jayaram Kasi Visweswaran Open source data viz library for react - headless-charts/reactWhen you need to build integrated dashboards within react apps, with custom interactions and have unopinionated styling, the pickings are slim indeed. So we built an open source library which can be used in React apps, which can integrate with TailwindCSS styles and behave in a completely headless fashion. headless-charts.netlify.app more
Theme: Imagine & Innovate
Topic: Dashboard & interaction principles
Submission Type: Lightning Talk
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Prabhu Shiv Singh ![]() A Data Safari through the World Wildlife Web{Describe your talk/session in 2-3 paragraphs} Biodiversity informatics is the application of informatics techniques to biodiversity information, such as taxonomy, biogeography or ecology. This talk is a web “safari” through this domain starting with a small ecosystem and then gradually progressing to national and global ecosystems. We are living in a planet where Mother Earth and our existence i… more
Theme: Explore & Play
Topic: Storytelling & structuring narratives
Submission Type: Lightning Talk
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Gyan Lakhwani Making an Exploratory Map of Writers around the Globe This talk will dissect our creative and technical journey in developing Hammock’s Literary Map, an interactive, exploratory visualization that spotlights writers from around the globe. more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Process & practices of dataviz
Submission Type: Lightning Talk
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Anusheel Gurjar Visualizing Data with Creative CodingAbout: Simply put, creative coding is a type of programming to create static, animated and interactive visuals. It help you generate designs in a procedural manner. It also allows you to create micro tools to input data whether it be in form of numbers, letter, image, fonts, SVGs, audio, video and then process it further to create immersive and interactive visuals. This tool can be of great help … more
Theme: Imagine & Innovate
Topic: Experiential viz e.g. data art, installations
Submission Type: Hands-on Workshop
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Kadambari Landscapes of Bangalore: Explorations with mapping, data visualisation and storytellingThis talk will explain the process and oucomes behind two information design projects centered around the themes of grasslands and rivers of Bangalore respectively. While the first project will showcase more traditional mapping and data visualization, the second is an exploration in community engagement and Counter Mapping. more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Storytelling & structuring narratives
Submission Type: Standard Talk
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Siddharth Jain 10 Lessons from 10 Years in Data StorytellingWhy? I’ve been in data storytelling and insights for 10 years now and have learned a bunch of things... what works for engagement, what doesn’t and would love to share with the community. more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Storytelling & structuring narratives
Submission Type: Lightning Talk
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rashmi b Think Before You Chart: Designing Enterprise Dashboards That Work{Describe your talk/session in 2-3 paragraphs} In this session, we’ll explore what it really takes to design enterprise dashboards that don’t just look good—but actually help people make better decisions. Too often, dashboards are cluttered with visuals that serve the data, not the user. This talk flips that approach by starting with the most important element: the user’s context, goals, and work… more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Domain-specific data visualisations
Submission Type: Lightning Talk
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Krunal Palande Information Design in Everyday ObjectsAs data visualisation evolves, it’s easy to feel boxed in by conventional tools and templates. But look closer, and you’ll see our everyday environment is already full of ingenious ways to visualise information. This session is an invitation to rediscover the joy of observing, experimenting, and building visualisations from first principles — designing experiences where form naturally follows fun… more
Theme: Imagine & Innovate
Topic: Process & practices of dataviz
Submission Type: Standard Talk
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Shivakumar Jolad Visualizing India in Transition : Mapping India’s political and administrative boundary changes over 150 years{Describe your talk/session in 2-3 paragraphs} <h1>Talk Description</h1> more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Unique works by Indian practitioners
Submission Type: Standard Talk
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Joel R How to visualise my data and hold it in zine?A workshop on making a tangible data visualisation with an aim to hold the data in hand and narrate a story. The idea is to look beyond numbers and come up with the portrayal of it. The workshop plans on visualising the numbers into a tangible illustrated eight page zine. more
Theme: Explore & Play
Topic: Beyond viz eg. sonification, physicalization
Submission Type: Hands-on Workshop
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Ankita Mathur Draw Your Data: Visualizing data points from everyday life using pen and paper“Draw Your Data” is an imersive, hands-on workshop inspired by the Dear Data project by Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec. In this 2 hour session, participants will record data based on a choosen theme like apps on your phone, favourite songs, closest connections, etc. and then draw it out using different elements, colors, creating a personalized drawing of their data. Here is how it can look lik… more
Theme: Explore & Play
Topic: Experiential viz e.g. data art, installations
Submission Type: Hands-on Workshop
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Can we make data disappear? Detach, Dunk, Deliberate.Context System design courses, typically offered in the penultimate semester of design school, are often considered among the most demanding. This is primarily due to the overwhelming amount of information that must be condensed into flowcharts and visualized for easy comprehension. Giga maps have emerged as a familiar format that is well-suited to this task, allowing designers to represent both … more
Theme: Imagine & Innovate
Topic: Beyond viz eg. sonification, physicalization
Submission Type: Standard Talk
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Rama Krushna Behera Planet Under Pressure: Visualizing Earth's Fragile Balance through InteractionThe Idea ‘Planet Under Pressure’ is a real-time interactive installation that brings the Earth’s condition to life through immersive visuals and sound. Using a MIDI controller with knobs/ sliders, participants can adjust key human-driven environmental factors such as air pollution, water pollution, deforestation, urbanization, overpopulation, waste generation, industrial activity, and climate cha… more
Theme: Imagine & Innovate
Topic: Experiential viz e.g. data art, installations
Submission Type: VizChitra (Alternative) Session
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Democratising Data: Stories using everyday objectsAbout What power structures can be dismantled when the power to speak the language of data becomes accessible to everyone? The Daily Data Project is a workshop designed to engage in a discourse on creating data visualizations using everyday household objects. The workshop introduces a toolkit developed as a part of my graduation project, which acts as a vertical to simplify the visualization proc… more
Theme: Imagine & Innovate
Topic: Beyond viz eg. sonification, physicalization
Submission Type: VizChitra (Alternative) Session
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Yashna Jhamb Making Sense of Stories: Structuring Qual Data at ScaleQualitative data is often considered messy, anecdotal, and hard to scale — yet it holds immense power to illuminate nuance, lived experience, and patterns that numbers alone can’t tell. Drawing from my experience as a researcher working on the ground across public health, education, and development sectors, this session will explore the often-overlooked value of qualitative data in shaping decisi… more
Theme: Explore & Play
Topic: Storytelling & structuring narratives
Submission Type: Lightning Talk
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Aditya Dahiya Color, Code, and Creativity: Elevating Data with R’s ggplot2Data Visualization Workshop Submission: Communicating Data with Beautiful Visualizations Using R and ggplot2 more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Process & practices of dataviz
Submission Type: Standard Talk
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Manju Catherine Pothen What is your unique caregiving style?{Describe your talk/session in 2-3 paragraphs} Interactive Data Visualisation Quiz more
Theme: Explore & Play
Topic: Collaboration & conversational interfaces
Submission Type: VizChitra (Alternative) Session
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Simran The Caregivers’ Load: Unpacking the Invisible WeightAbout The Project In 2023, The Caregiving Lab undertook a design research initiative to explore the lived experiences, challenges, and systemic gaps faced by caregivers supporting people with high-risk, life-threatening conditions. These included cancer, heart disease, life-altering accidents, congenital conditions, and other medical needs requiring intensive treatment and long-term care. Our int… more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Storytelling & structuring narratives
Submission Type: Standard Talk
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Pulaha Let’s get mapping!Of all the data visualisation forms available, maps have always fascinated me the most - it deals with data that is about us, the space we inhabit, and they just look wow. While there are many mapping softwares available, the one we will be focussing on is Quantum GIS or QGIS. Why QGIS? Because it’s open source and a one-stop-solution for everything spatial. more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Domain-specific data visualisations
Submission Type: Hands-on Workshop
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Democratizing financial data for a growing India{Describe your talk/session in 2-3 paragraphs} Retail holdings as direct and indirect investors (through mutual funds) surged more than 10 times over the last 10 years, according to data from the National Stock Exchange (NSE). In a country of 320 million households, we now have 110 million unique investors. more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Accessibility, ethics & inclusion in dataviz
Submission Type: Lightning Talk
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SG The Sonic Signature: Plotting Your Name's Audio LandscapeEver wondered what the unique sound of your name looks like? In this hands-on workshop, we’ll embark on an exciting journey to capture your “sonic signature” and translate it into a striking visual landscape. We’ll begin by generating the audio waveform of your name using text-to-speech. We’ll then delve into audio analysis, extracting meaningful data from the audio output. This data will form th… more
Theme: Imagine & Innovate
Topic: Beyond viz eg. sonification, physicalization
Submission Type: Hands-on Workshop
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Arvind V Data, DataViz, and Stats with Stars{Describe your talk/session in 2-3 paragraphs} A brief foray into Data, Data Viz, and a wee bit of stats. What we might cover: more
Theme: Explore & Play
Topic: Storytelling & structuring narratives
Submission Type: Hands-on Workshop
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priyanka gagneja Visualizing Data Quality First and Foremost !!Talk Description How much do you know your data ? Most importantly at the source, how was this data collected ? What are the potential gaps ? What needs to be done to fix it? more
Theme: Explore & Play
Topic: Scalable data exploration processes
Submission Type: Standard Talk
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The Great Indian Data Chase: Data, Missing Data, and Measured RealitiesThis session aims to capture the data environment in India and its nuances through a peer-learning, Birds of Feather session. The session aims to bring together practitioners, researchers and policymakers with a focus on the datasets available in the Indian context, challenges associated with these datasets and ways in which users often navigate these challenges to answer complex questions on Ind… more
Theme: Explore & Play
Topic: State of data in India (availability, collection...)
Submission Type: Unconference / Birds of Feather (BoF) Session
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Krunal Palande Shakespeare’s Women: Literature meets Dataviz.This talk reimagines Shakespeare’s First Folio not just as literature, but as data. By analysing every line of speech in the plays, and mapping the distribution of dialogue between male and female characters, we uncover striking patterns of presence and absence across the Bard’s works. The visualisations explore multiple dimensions: total proportions of male and female speech, variations across c… more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Storytelling & structuring narratives
Submission Type: Lightning Talk
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Fasih Khatib Fast and Fresh - creating a real-time dashboard with Apache Pinot{Describe your talk/session in 2-3 paragraphs} Analytics is changing. Once upon a time, an analytical query taking a few seconds to execute was considered acceptable. Additionally, the query would analyze smaller volumes of data that were loaded in batches. This may have been sufficient for internal dashboards but falls short for customer-facing applications. In today’s on-demand world, customers… more
Theme: Imagine & Innovate
Topic: Scalable data exploration processes
Submission Type: Standard Talk
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Chaitali Kulkarni Caloripoorna: If the Gods worked with dataWhat if your calorie tracker could tell you a story—not just about how many carbs you ate, but about how you felt when you logged them? Caloripoorna is a data storytelling exploration that weaves together food, mood, and mythology. Using real calorie-tracking app data layered with mood logs and journal entries, this project transforms mundane numbers into a reflective journey—visualized through i… more
Theme: Imagine & Innovate
Topic: Experiential viz e.g. data art, installations
Submission Type: Standard Talk
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Visualizing Data with LLMsCan we get LLMs to do all the work in creating data visualizations? How will this play out in the future? more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Usage of AI & technology in data visualization workflows
Submission Type: Standard Talk
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Workshop: Create a Data Visualization using an LLMIn this workshop, you will create a visual data story end-to-end just using an LLM and deploy it. more
Theme: Explore & Play
Topic: Usage of AI & technology in data visualization workflows
Submission Type: Hands-on Workshop
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Illuminating the Human Body: Data Visualization for Enhanced Radiology WorkflowsAbstract Radiology generates vast amounts of complex image data daily. Radiologists’ primary role is to interpret these images accurately and efficiently. Globally, the aging population is rising, and the use of imaging as a critical diagnostic modality has exponentially increased, placing radiologists under immense time pressure. more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Domain-specific data visualisations
Submission Type: Standard Talk
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Hemal Impactful Graphic Titles: A vital element in creating a successful data story{About the session} Does your graphic story have a ‘creative headline’ that can grab reader’s attention, builds curiosity to deep dive into the data story? Given a thought, there have always been scope to craft headlines, chart titles that are creative, unique, refreshing and becomes an important entry point for the readers to read the graphical piece. Apart from creating custom visualizations, a… more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Storytelling & structuring narratives
Submission Type: Lightning Talk
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The ATCGs of India’s Public Health Genome: A Visual Story of Anomalies, Trajectories, Correlations and GeographiesDid you know most babies in India are born in the second half of the year: more
Theme: Explore & Play
Topic: Domain-specific data visualisations
Submission Type: Standard Talk
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Aditi Bhat Moving Data - Climate Stripes in motion and emotionDescribe your talk/session in 2-3 paragraphs What happens when data moves - and moves you back? For almost two decades now, I’ve been making sense of the world with my hula hoops. It started when I was 6, a way to hold on to something familiar as my parents moved us back to India from the US. Over time, hooping became my space to feel, learn, and understand my emotions. I’ve found joy and pride i… more
Theme: Imagine & Innovate
Topic: Experiential viz e.g. data art, installations
Submission Type: Standard Talk
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Kritika 👀 You see data, I see images 👀{Describe your talk/session in 2-3 paragraphs} Can one aim to be a good visual communication designer and an even better data designer all at once? This talk explores my journey as someone who has skills in one and a big appetite for the other one. As a creative practice, all I try to do is juggle between the two. more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Aesthetics & design principles
Submission Type: Standard Talk
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Shubham Saurabh A love chart to represent attractionI created a Love Chart to explore what makes a person attractive. In my opinion, five key factors contribute to attractiveness: more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Storytelling & structuring narratives
Submission Type: Lightning Talk
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Aman Bhargava The Unreasonable Effectiveness of TinkeringThe What Side projects keep me happy. I couldn’t really imagine learning without them, and I think I’ve genuinely learnt the most about data, programming, and visualization while tinkering away on something that just caught my interest. This talk is about embracing that slightly chaotic, but very rewarding, world of side projects as a personal playground for learning. I want to share a little bit… more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Process & practices of dataviz
Submission Type: Standard Talk
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Sabhyata Jain [The Invisible Graph: Making Data Visualization Accessible]{Data visualization unlocks complex insights yet remains inaccessible to those with visual impairments. My talk identifies key barriers in screen reader compatibility and presents immediate practical solutions based on current accessibility guidelines. I’ll demonstrate how AI technologies are creating breakthrough approaches to visual information access, opening new doors for truly inclusive data… more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Accessibility, ethics & inclusion in dataviz
Submission Type: Standard Talk
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Anmol Pahwa Fetching and Visualizing Daily Air Quality DataDescription Often publicly available datasets from Indian government agencies/bodies are available in the form of PDF tables (in fact, sometimes scanned PDF tables). One such dataset includes the daily air quality data that is published by the Central Pollution Control Board at 4:00PM everyday. I created an automated Python script to scrape through these tables every day at 4:30PM. Subsequently I… more
Theme: Explore & Play
Topic: State of data in India (availability, collection...)
Submission Type: Lightning Talk
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Rajit Sengupta Mapping Mayhem: Designing India’s First Atlas on Extreme Weather{Describe your talk/session in 2-3 paragraphs} In 2022, my colleague Kiran Pandey and I set out to build something we hadn’t seen before in India—a living, visual record of the country’s fast-changing climate. The idea became India’s Disaster Atlas, a database and dashboard that documents extreme weather events across the country (https://www.downtoearth.org.in/weather_disasters_india). But behin… more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Storytelling & structuring narratives
Submission Type: Standard Talk
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Venkat Chilukuri Minimum math for everyone (Leave no adult behind)Minimum Math for Everyone(Leave no adult behind) “Premature optimization is the root cause of all evil”- Donald Knuth more
Theme: Explore & Play
Topic: State of data in India (availability, collection...)
Submission Type: Standard Talk
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Abhiram Jois People, places and pixels : Working with communities and dataAbout This talk is a reflection of how working with communities has informed my understanding of data. Top down approaches of data collection, analysis and visualisation often lead to narratives that are disconnected from reality or lead to selective representation. more
Theme: Explore & Play
Topic: Accessibility, ethics & inclusion in dataviz
Submission Type: Standard Talk
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Anushka G Designing for Data Products: Spreadsheets to FigmaOverview When I first began my journey in designing data products, I found myself sitting with messy spreadsheets more often than Figma screens. In the years since, I have realised that the processes data goes through to become dev-ready are just as important (if not more) to a designer as they are to a developer. The learning - one needs to understand the numbers deeply before making them unders… more
Theme: Explore & Play
Topic: Process & practices of dataviz
Submission Type: Standard Talk
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Garima Jindal ![]() Comprehending Large Networks through SpiralsWe will present Spiral Visualization. Spiral visualization is a powerful community-centric Visual analytic solution for undirected, unweighted, and static networks. It has three primary goals: (I) drawing large networks in a compact and intuitive format, (II) visualizing node centrality within network communities, and (III) visualizing both node and community properties. more
Theme: Explore & Play
Topic: Scalable data exploration processes
Submission Type: Lightning Talk
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Seema Krishnakumar Data sphere: Reclaiming the community voices{Describe your talk/session in 2-3 paragraphs} How can we talk about difficult topics in a community space using data? The world is increasingly turning intolerant to openly discussing topics of social concern; religion, language, culture, politics, body politics, environment, and many more that need urgent intervention. Young people are often reluctant to publicly voice opinion/dissent due to st… more
Theme: Explore & Play
Topic: Accessibility, ethics & inclusion in dataviz
Submission Type: Standard Talk
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samridhi pandey Data, Time, and Embodied Reflection: Transforming Personal Data into Tangible data artI am interested in exploring how personal everyday data can be transformed into tangible data artefacts, merging data visualization with craft-based practices. This inquiry began during the pandemic with my project My Strange Addiction, where I recorded my binge-watching habits and encoded that data into an embroidered artefact. It demonstrates how everyday mundane data can be used to create deep… more
Theme: Imagine & Innovate
Topic: Beyond viz eg. sonification, physicalization
Submission Type: Standard Talk
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Shreeya Patil How Farts Can Be a Source of Energy? : A Speculative FutureDesign is no longer just about solving present-day problems — it’s about anticipating what might come next. From climate change to AI shifting cultures, designers are asked to think about long term implications, emerging systems and speculative futures. For every vertical let it be healthcare, food, transportation we are pushed to think about what kind of world are we designing for? What kind of … more
Theme: Imagine & Innovate
Topic: Beyond viz eg. sonification, physicalization
Submission Type: VizChitra (Alternative) Session
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Dwijaraj Bhattacharya Having an Ear to the Cloud -- Understanding Customer Pain Points Using Social Media DataThis project, led by a team at Dvara Research, aims to support high-level decision-making by leveraging a Market Monitoring Tool that uses social media data to surface customer grievances related to the Unified Payments Interface (UPI). Given UPI’s vast reach—handling over 10 billion transactions in a single month—even an industry-leading error rate can impact tens of millions. Traditional grieva… more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Storytelling & structuring narratives
Submission Type: Lightning Talk
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Exploring Exhibition Design: Designing Experiences for Data VisualizationAbout This talk explores how Exhibition Design can contribute to Information design by virtue of conceptualizing experiences to promote tangible data explorations. Through a data visualization project and a data collection experiment conducted at an academic conference, I expand upon the processes that were followed from the initial brainstorming stage until the final development of the visualiza… more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Aesthetics & design principles
Submission Type: Lightning Talk
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Swagata Raha The Curious Case of Child Protection: Adventures in Data-WonderlandThrough our talk we want to take you on our journey of curating empirical evidence through diverse data sources to examine whether child protection laws are working for or against children. more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Storytelling & structuring narratives
Submission Type: Standard Talk
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Gyan Lakhwani Teaching Information Visualisation {Describe your talk/session in 2-3 paragraphs} I spent a semester teaching an information visualisation course for 3rd Year B.Des. students at Department of Design, DTU, Delhi. I would like to get in touch with more educators and share approaches, exercises and philosophical approaches to teaching data viz. more
Theme: Imagine & Innovate
Topic: Accessibility, ethics & inclusion in dataviz
Submission Type: Unconference / Birds of Feather (BoF) Session
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Ashris Choudhury Birds of a feather weave language maps togetheri make visualizations of patterns hidden in languages. In this group activity, we shall be doing a series of activities such as: more
Theme: Explore & Play
Topic: Domain-specific data visualisations
Submission Type: Unconference / Birds of Feather (BoF) Session
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Vivek Raju Wait, what is storytelling anyway?This simple 100,000-year-old tool is arguably one of the most misunderstood and overused words in human history. From cave walls to charts on dashboards, storytelling has taken on many shapes and meanings. Over time, people have tried to define stories through different narrative structures, especially in films and epics. But with each new context, the meaning of a story shifts and becomes more l… more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Storytelling & structuring narratives
Submission Type: Unconference / Birds of Feather (BoF) Session
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Karthik Shashidhar Self Service BI Serves NobodyThe last 20 years have all been about self service BI. The understanding here is that you allow the user to slice and dice the data in whatever way they want, and they are able to get the insights for themselves. more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Dashboard & interaction principles
Submission Type: Standard Talk
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Rutu Tank Drawing (from) DataOVERVIEW From cave paintings and memoirs to Strava activity, we love to keep a record of what we do. In 2024, as I flipped through my journals from the years before, I noticed that nothing had captured my time in a way that didn’t require reading long paragraphs. I realised I wanted to be able to log my experiences in a way that gave me a snapshot view of my time. more
Theme: Explore & Play
Topic: Experiential viz e.g. data art, installations
Submission Type: Standard Talk
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Rutu Tank Flipping Through - A Year in DataOVERVIEW From cave paintings and memoirs to Strava activity, we love to keep a record of what we do. However, even with the immense amount of data collection that my phone does for me, I still somehow forget the smaller details of my day-to-day life. In 2024, I wanted to be able to see my life beyond the basics and focus on the newness of the everyday, even in the so-called “boring routine”. more
Theme: Explore & Play
Topic: Experiential viz e.g. data art, installations
Submission Type: VizChitra (Alternative) Session
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Smit Shah Anekantadata - Multiplicity of datapointsHave you ever believed in love at first sight? In childhood, movies often portrayed this concept by freezing the frame and playing dramatic background music. But as we grow and experience more, we tend to move past initial infatuation. We engage in multiple, diverse interactions before forming a considered opinion about truly liking someone or something. more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Dashboard & interaction principles
Submission Type: Lightning Talk
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7538882992 The Quantified Self and Other Confluences between Data + DesignI present a broad exploration of the use of data in a variety of design contexts, codify them into their thematic essential, and derive a set of vocabularies reflective of the new compulsions that design will have to embrace in this data intensive world. These vocabularies, taxonomically presented, are intended to both enhance the role of design as well as provide a direction for its future dveel… more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Aesthetics & design principles
Submission Type: Standard Talk
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Pragnya Beyond Headlines: Understanding India Through DataGood data on India can be hard to access and harder still to understand. The media often does not do its job of giving citizens the context about the country that they deserve. As a result, we are often left with an outsider’s view of our own country. more
Theme: Imagine & Innovate
Topic: Experiential viz e.g. data art, installations
Submission Type: VizChitra (Alternative) Session
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Rukmini S Putting the data in data vizPast and present in data access in India, and some thoughts about who we are speaking to more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: State of data in India (availability, collection...)
Submission Type: Standard Talk
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Gopika Whose Analysis is it Anyway?- The Role of AI and Humans in Data Analysis and VisualizationArtificial Intelligence is rapidly reshaping the world of data - leading to many of us who work with data, wondering what the role of humans will look like in the future. more
Theme: Imagine & Innovate
Topic: Usage of AI & technology in data visualization workflows
Submission Type: Unconference / Birds of Feather (BoF) Session
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Pratyay Suvarnapathaki Demystifying Shaders: A Practical IntroductionSession Description Shaders are the secret weapon behind today’s most immersive data art, 3D dashboards, and real-time visualisations. Yet, they’re often dismissed as “too technical” for dataviz practitioners. more
Theme: Imagine & Innovate
Topic: Emerging mediums e.g. 3D, AR/VR
Submission Type: Lightning Talk
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Arjav Parikh ![]() Mapping the Future: Building Transparent Cities with TownPlan MapSession Description In this talk, I’ll take you behind the scenes of TownPlan Map, a platform that demystifies urban development through a data visualization lens by combining maps, public data, and storytelling to make real estate more transparent, accessible, and accountable. Built at the intersection of civic tech, visual design, and urban planning, TownPlan Map reimagines how citizens, builde… more
Theme: Explore & Play
Topic: State of data in India (availability, collection...)
Submission Type: Standard Talk
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Aatman Vaidya ![]() Brainrot Analysis Lab{Describe your talk/session in 2-3 paragraphs} The number of hours you spend on social media on your phone is often the only metric that is used to paint a scary picture of social media addiction. The accompanying visualisation on your phone’s OS with this number is usually a time-based graph of the amount of time you spend on a particular social media app over a week. While this number/graph can… more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Process & practices of dataviz
Submission Type: Lightning Talk
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lubhyathi Being digital watchdogs: Using data from courts, police and media to keep a check on power{Describe your talk/session in 2-3 paragraphs} Ever wondered what happens to corruption cases against politicians? Or, perhaps, you might wonder if your local police station is investigating cases effectively? Or, maybe if all those election promises of cracking down on drugs, land/sand/alcohol mafia, and post-election action on comedians and “anti-nationals” have gone anywhere? more
Theme: Explore & Play
Topic: State of data in India (availability, collection...)
Submission Type: Hands-on Workshop
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lubhyathi Visualising the Violence of the Criminal Justice System: Finding the Data and the Stories it May Miss{Describe your talk/session in 2-3 paragraphs} What was it like building databases on the death penalty, on sedition, and on custodial deaths in India? What were the challenges we faced? What does aggregating data, in a way few people have done, tell us that anecdotal stories don’t? And what does this macro picture erase of the individuals and families impacted by the system? more
Theme: Imagine & Innovate
Topic: Storytelling & structuring narratives
Submission Type: Standard Talk
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Suhasini Seelin Contractions - A performance/play on the dark side of AI and DataWhat: A play performance of Contractions, originally by Mike Bartlett about the dark side of data on employees being exploited for corporate gain. Adapted by group Kahe Vidushak to include themes of AI and chatbots. Potentially the use of an AI chatbot along with the actor within the performance, making it a unique show using AI on stage. (The full play of 90 mins has been performed at Rangashank… more
Theme: Imagine & Innovate
Topic: Accessibility, ethics & inclusion in dataviz
Submission Type: VizChitra (Alternative) Session
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Jacob Discovering Your "Migration Print"Talk Description What if we could visualize our individual migration patterns and discover similarities with others’ paths? Many of us have made decisions to move somewhere new--to a new neighborhood, city, or country. We might be “pushed” by a lack of opportunities where we are or social constraints, or we might be “pulled” by a dream of greater job prospects and financial savings, or simply a s… more
Theme: Explore & Play
Topic: Storytelling & structuring narratives
Submission Type: Lightning Talk
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Bhargav 'First Impressions' - Notes from a short course designed on fundamentals of Data Viz(Context) I recently designed and taught a short course introducing Data Visualization to young undergraduate students at the Faculty of Design, CEPT University, India. This was the first time students would be exposed to the ideas of Data Visualization however as a fundamental core skill for their future. Given the short duration of the course the challenge was to execute this course without usi… more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Process & practices of dataviz
Submission Type: Lightning Talk
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Kartik Chandramouli Lessons For Newsrooms From Data VisualisersIn this peer-driven session, two journalists/editors will facilitate an open conversation with participants from across the data visualisation world. The session aims to explore the intersections and friction points between newsrooms and data visualisers, unpacking both challenges and collaboration opportunities. Through guided discussion, we’ll crowdsource lessons, practical strategies, and idea… more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Process & practices of dataviz
Submission Type: Unconference / Birds of Feather (BoF) Session
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Shravan MK [ From Parent to Child: Examining Intergenerational Employment Mobility ]Describe your talk: Instead of wondering whether you should follow your parents’ exact career path, have you considered how different the world of work might be for your generation compared to your father’s? whether everyone has the same opportunities to move up the ladder? This talk delves into the employment arrangements of fathers and sons in India between 2004 and 2019, using data from the Em… more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Storytelling & structuring narratives
Submission Type: Standard Talk
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Tara Science on the side : Contributing to and using citizen science data in IndiaTalk description Across India, citizen science is quietly reshaping how we gather environmental, ecological, and urban data. From bird counts and tree tracking to air quality monitoring and waste mapping, thousands of people contribute to science in their free time—often armed with nothing more than a phone, curiosity, and a willingness to observe. more
Theme: Explore & Play
Topic: State of data in India (availability, collection...)
Submission Type: Unconference / Birds of Feather (BoF) Session
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ARYA MAHENDRA SANKHE Tracking Everyday Habits: Insights Through Personal Data Visualizations.This session will explore how tracking everyday habits can unlock valuable insights about personal productivity, well-being, and growth. By leveraging data visualization techniques, I will present a framework for collecting and analyzing personal habit data to discover patterns, correlations, and actionable insights. more
Theme: Explore & Play
Topic: Domain-specific data visualisations
Submission Type: Lightning Talk
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Datavizards & Stitch Witches: Crafting Textile ArtifactsCan we treat soft materials as hard drives of human experience? more
Theme: Explore & Play
Topic: Beyond viz eg. sonification, physicalization
Submission Type: Hands-on Workshop
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Prof. Kavitha Ranganathan Understanding Colour - The impact of astute colour choices for your Data VisualizationColor choices can either make or break a data-visualization. In this talk I will cover color theory and its implications for color pallette choices, color as a pre-attentive attribute in how humans percieve visual information, the semantics and emotions associated with different colors and how that can affect how successfully a visualization conveys its intended purpose. The talk will also touch … more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Aesthetics & design principles
Submission Type: Standard Talk
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Nikita Deshpande From Chaos to Clarity: How I Craft Animated Explainers{Describe your talk/session in 2-3 paragraphs} We all encounter confusing concepts and overwhelming streams of information while navigating life. Some of us naturally make sense of long texts, but many are more visual learners. As someone who isn’t much of a reader—but is endlessly curious—I’ve always gravitated toward animated explainers. They simplify ideas, make information digestible, and oft… more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Aesthetics & design principles
Submission Type: Standard Talk
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Arun Sudarsan Making the Invisible Visible: Transforming Budget Data for Civic EngagementNote on use of AI: I have taken the assistance of Claude AI for the limited purpose of collating all my ideas together into the format of a proposal. The workshop structure and content have been entirely developed by me. more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Domain-specific data visualisations
Submission Type: Hands-on Workshop
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Kartik Chandramouli Viz-à-viz NewsWhat happens when a small data visualisation team partners with a small environmental newsroom? Drawing from the collaboration between Mongabay India and the Technology for Wildlife Foundation, the talk will highlight how such partnerships can result in creative, high-impact storytelling. more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Unique works by Indian practitioners
Submission Type: Lightning Talk
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Praful Gharpure [Dynamic City Development Index Using Spatial Information and Sectoral Data ]{The idea is based on the desire of authorities to being in a uniform, standard, scalable parameter to benchmark our cities. This reminds me of various surveys / rankings which are published every year at different frequency showing listing of various parameters converging on to a rank. These ranks range from National, Local or even to a service sector level depending on the focus area of govt / … more
Theme: Imagine & Innovate
Topic: Process & practices of dataviz
Submission Type: Standard Talk
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Nikita Deshpande From Chaos to Clarity: Ideation & Storyboarding for Short-Form Animation/Video{Describe your talk/session in 2-3 paragraphs} Every great animated video or short-form story starts the same way: with a scribble, a half-baked idea, or a messy brain dump. This workshop is all about taking that chaos and turning it into something structured, visual, and engaging. more
Theme: Explore & Play
Topic: Storytelling & structuring narratives
Submission Type: Hands-on Workshop
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Somrita Bandyopadhyay [Data from the Dust: Turning Inscriptions into Maps of Empire]Context How do you visualize a millennium-old administrative system—when all you have are copperplate inscriptions and temple carvings? more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Process & practices of dataviz
Submission Type: Lightning Talk
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lubhyathi Beyond Flat Narratives: Decoding The Law VisuallyIndia’s legal landscape is filled with ambiguities that can lead to unexpected and often troubling consequences. How do we make sense of these multiple interpretations? More importantly, how do we visualize them to expose the gap between law as written and law as implemented? more
Theme: Imagine & Innovate
Topic: Unique works by Indian practitioners
Submission Type: Standard Talk
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Thillai Rajan A. [Visualizing the Bending Mind: Start-ups and Innovations]{The Indian Start-up ecosystem has grown to become one of the world’s largest. Start-ups today are becoming important engines of change, economy, and innovation. More importantly, start-ups have also been capturing the imagination of the youth today. more
Theme: Explore & Play
Topic: Domain-specific data visualisations
Submission Type: VizChitra (Alternative) Session
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Tanvi Sharma What Data Does and Does Not Represent: Visualizing the Archive of SlaveryOur proposal depicts the design of a humanistically-informed data visualization of a dataset related to the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The visualization employs a quantitative dataset of slaving voyages that took place between 1565 and 1858 and uses historical scholarship and humanistic theory in order to call attention to the people behind the data, as well as to what the data does not or canno… more
Theme: Imagine & Innovate
Topic: Accessibility, ethics & inclusion in dataviz
Submission Type: Standard Talk
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You Had One Job: Chart EditionOverview ‘A designer is a cunning plotter laying his traps.’ Vilem Flusser in his essay ‘About the Word Design’ talks about how design can be deceptive. Everything can be anything if the designer wants it to be. The line between bad design and misunderstood intent is often blurry. It’s easier to appreciate and make good design once you have experienced the worst of it. more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Experiential viz e.g. data art, installations
Submission Type: VizChitra (Alternative) Session
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Harsha Devulapalli DIY : Building your own datasetsAnyone who has ever worked with data knows this. It’s so much easier when you have it ready. Except, given where we are (Hello, census when?) and how things are like - there’s a pretty good chance that you have no available sources of data on you. What’s the current population of Hyderabad? Where do you have pot holes in your neighborhood? How much does my city spend on toilets? Fear not, in this… more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Process & practices of dataviz
Submission Type: Standard Talk
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Harsha Devulapalli Love Maps? Learn how to make them.Have you always wanted to learn how to make maps? This workshop will teach you the basics of mapping. We start off with learning how to map with a pen and paper, then with your personal devices and the final boss - a GIS software(QGIS). An additional of this workshop is to understand what it is you are mapping and whether you need to map it at all. more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Process & practices of dataviz
Submission Type: Hands-on Workshop
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Srinivasan Ramani Setting the Context: How Data Journalism is Redefining PrintDescription and Takeaways: The presentation would be about journalism within the larger ambit of story-telling at a time of print in crisis. Story-telling in the print media has to adopt to a milieu where there is a multiplicity of news sources and immediate availability of a lot of content, but which are largely not subject to gate-keeping and verification. It has also got to adopt to a milieu w… more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Usage of AI & technology in data visualization workflows
Submission Type: Standard Talk
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Aditi Bhat Spinning Stories: Embodying and Visceralizing DataSpinning Stories: Embodying and Visceralizing Data A 2-hour workshop on data, motion, and meaning more
Theme: Imagine & Innovate
Topic: Beyond viz eg. sonification, physicalization
Submission Type: VizChitra (Alternative) Session
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ciju cherian A perspective on visualization - with a case studyI see visualization as a tool that leverages human perception to understand and explore data. While this perspective might sound obvious, it’s not common to see in visualization works. More often, charts aim to summarize rather than engage. In this talk, I’ll walk through the design of an interactive visualization based on India’s population census. The visualization is available here. more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Process & practices of dataviz
Submission Type: Standard Talk
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Purvika Sharma Provocative by Design: Visualisations for Climate Action{Describe your talk/session in 2-3 paragraphs} The world is going through a climate crisis. And there is an abundance of data supporting this. Design can play a critical role in transforming this data into meaningful and thought provoking communication that supports action. more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Aesthetics & design principles
Submission Type: Lightning Talk
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The Fabric of DissentTextiles as protest, archives, and hidden histories. more
Theme: Imagine & Innovate
Topic: Experiential viz e.g. data art, installations
Submission Type: Hands-on Workshop
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Chandni Tekwani Designing Data Viz for the UnseenAbout We work with data all the time - figures, time, numbers, and all other visible metrics. But what about something that can’t be seen - like a feeling, emotion or a thought? more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Storytelling & structuring narratives
Submission Type: VizChitra (Alternative) Session
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VizChitra Data Trail: A way to connect, collect, and reflectDescription Conferences can be intense: Attending all kinds of sessions, finding the nerve to talk to people whose work you’ve fawned over, learning new things, and filling up your “To Learn” list. A dataviz conference full of nerds, meeting at such a scale in India for the first time is bound to be a lot (in the best way). But, it’s going to go by so fast. This proposal is an attempt to figure o… more
Theme: Imagine & Innovate
Topic: Experiential viz e.g. data art, installations
Submission Type: VizChitra (Alternative) Session
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Jayesha Koushik The Great Indian Census, 1951- ?DESCRIPTION The Great Indian Census is a walkthrough art installation/exhibit that recounts the history and evolution of the census in independent India. Collecting demographic data and describing people’s lives, needs and realities has always been key to understanding the growing population of the country, especially as the same tool had been used as a method of categorisation and control by the… more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Experiential viz e.g. data art, installations
Submission Type: VizChitra (Alternative) Session
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Play Date-ingA Blind Date with Data This workshop is part icebreaker, part data viz, and part craft date. Participants will be paired up like a blind date, gather quirky info about each other’s favorite vegetables, music genres, or how they eat a samosa and collaboratively make an artifact that reflects both their personalities. more
Theme: Explore & Play
Topic: Beyond viz eg. sonification, physicalization
Submission Type: Hands-on Workshop
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Sowmya Jayaraman Data Archeology: Unearthing Data Artefacts from Ancient Cultures𝗔𝗕𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗧 Have you ever thought if your next Data Visualisation inspiration could come from history? more
Theme: Imagine & Innovate
Topic: Experiential viz e.g. data art, installations
Submission Type: Hands-on Workshop
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Syamantak Gupta Maps in GamesAs the highly creative title suggests, I’ll talk about the confluence of immersion and information in game maps. Be it video games or tabletop RPGs, maps offer more than just direction, often shaping the player experience. We’ll discuss, with examples, the following from a player’s persepective: more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Storytelling & structuring narratives
Submission Type: Lightning Talk
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Surbhi Jain The Shape of MemoryAbout the Talk This talk explores how personal memories can direct visual story telling, using data that is intimate, emotional and messy, and how artists and designers can shape it into meaningful representations. more
Theme: Imagine & Innovate
Topic: Beyond viz eg. sonification, physicalization
Submission Type: Lightning Talk
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Vaidehi Shirsath Reimagining Traditional Dashboard DesignIn a world where rectangular dashboards dominate our screens one can easily ask—Why rectangle? Despite the diversity of industries and use cases, most dashboard solutions follow identical patterns, standard charts, and linear information flows. Although they perform well for today’s audience, what can we do when our data consumption habits and visualisation needs evolve? more
Theme: Explore & Play
Topic: Process & practices of dataviz
Submission Type: Lightning Talk
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Ipsita Rajak ![]() Whispers in the Void{Describe your talk/session in 2-3 paragraphs} The snippets of the whispers we collected from the labourers will be played as we recite the poem below. Befor the whispers took the shape of an interactive art installation, it was manifested in the form of a poem first. The poem goes like this: more
Theme: Imagine & Innovate
Topic: Experiential viz e.g. data art, installations
Submission Type: Unconference / Birds of Feather (BoF) Session
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Sajal Tiwari Seeing India from Above: Telling Stories Through Satellite dataSession Description India is forever changing - in fast, dramatic ways and in slow, almost imperceptible ways. But what might it be like to step back and look at these changes from above? This talk presents a sequence of visual stories from Mapping Stories - India (www.instagram.com/mapping.stories), an initiative that photographs the evolving face of the nation through satellite imagery and geo-… more
Theme: Explain & Learn
Topic: Process & practices of dataviz
Submission Type: Lightning Talk
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Ipsita Rajak ![]() Whispers in the Void{Describe your talk/session in 2-3 paragraphs} The snippets of the whispers we collected from the labourers will be played as we recite the poem below. Befor the whispers took the shape of an interactive art installation, it was manifested in the form of a poem first. The poem goes like this: more
Theme: Imagine & Innovate
Topic: Experiential viz e.g. data art, installations
Submission Type: Unconference / Birds of Feather (BoF) Session
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Ipsita Rajak ![]() Whispers in the Void{Describe your talk/session in 2-3 paragraphs} The snippets of the whispers we collected from the labourers will be played as we recite the poem below. Befor the whispers took the shape of an interactive art installation, it was manifested in the form of a poem first. The poem goes like this: more
Theme: Imagine & Innovate
Topic: Experiential viz e.g. data art, installations
Submission Type: Unconference / Birds of Feather (BoF) Session
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