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VizChitra 2025

VizChitra 2025

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Themes and topics for submitting talks, workshops, demos - and ideas for communicating with data 1. Explain & Learn Fundamentals of process, design & communication for dataviz Process & practices of dataviz expand

Themes and topics for submitting talks, workshops, demos - and ideas for communicating with data

1. Explain & Learn

Fundamentals of process, design & communication for dataviz

  • Process & practices of dataviz
  • Storytelling & structuring narratives
  • Aesthetics & design principles
  • Accessibility, ethics & inclusion in dataviz
  • Unique works by Indian practitioners

2. Explore & Play

Practices of data exploration, interface & dashboard design for dataviz

  • Dashboard & interaction principles
  • Domain-specific data visualisations
  • Collaboration & conversational interfaces
  • Scalable data exploration processes
  • State of data in India (availability, collection, etc)

3. Imagine & Innovate

Use of new mediums, approaches, AI & tech to shape how we do dataviz in future

  • Usage of AI & technology in data visualization workflows
  • Emerging mediums e.g. 3D, AR/VR
  • Beyond viz eg. sonification, physicalization
  • Experiential viz e.g. data art, installations

You can submit a session for:

  1. 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)

  2. 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)

  3. 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

  4. 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)

  5. 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?

General guidelines how to submit a proposal

BEFORE you begin writing your submission, please give some thought to the following:

  1. Who is the audience for your session? Think about their interests, work roles, challenges, age or experience as you decide this.
  2. What problem/pain are you trying to solve (for the audience)? This should be something that is communicated clearly so that they have a sense of your session’s importance.
  3. What will be the scope of your session? This will help identify the central topic or theme and should describe broad areas you plan to cover during the session?
  4. How will participants benefit from your session? Think of practical and specific ways in which they will be able to apply the knowledge they gain, and beyond just general awareness.
  5. What is the appropriate format for your session, given the audience and objectives that you have in mind?

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.

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Accepting submissions till 15 Apr 2025, 11:59 PM

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
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  • Submitted
  • 06 Mar 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Scalable data exploration processes Submission Type: Lightning Talk

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Decoding Aesthetic Déjà Vu

In 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
  • 1 comment
  • Submitted
  • 08 Mar 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Aesthetics & design principles Submission Type: Standard Talk

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
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  • Submitted
  • 12 Mar 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Storytelling & structuring narratives Submission Type: Hands-on Workshop

PRASANTA KUMAR DUTTA

The Eyes Have It: Understanding Perception-Driven Data Visualisation

Talk 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
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  • Submitted
  • 16 Mar 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Aesthetics & design principles Submission Type: Standard Talk

PRASANTA KUMAR DUTTA

Learning to Be a Data Hunter-Gatherer: How to find, extract and collect data for your next visualisation

Workshop 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
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  • Submitted
  • 16 Mar 2025
Theme: Explore & Play Topic: Process & practices of dataviz Submission Type: Hands-on Workshop

Siddhi

Debiasing Data

Data 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
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  • 17 Mar 2025
Theme: Explore & Play Topic: State of data in India (availability, collection...) Submission Type: Lightning Talk

Harini Anand

Decoding Tech Job Market Trends: Insights from 350,000 Postings

Decoding Tech Job Market Trends: Insights from 350,000 Postings more
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  • 18 Mar 2025
Theme: Explore & Play Topic: Domain-specific data visualisations Submission Type: Lightning Talk

Vikram Nayak

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The UX of Charts: Get the insight across, every time

Summary 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
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  • 19 Mar 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Process & practices of dataviz Submission Type: Standard Talk

Anto Kriston

99 Problems but Data Ain’t One : Standup comedy performance

In 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
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  • Submitted
  • 19 Mar 2025
Theme: Explore & Play Topic: Experiential viz e.g. data art, installations Submission Type: VizChitra (Alternative) Session

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
  • 0 comments
  • Submitted
  • 19 Mar 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Storytelling & structuring narratives Submission Type: Standard Talk

Jayaram Kasi Visweswaran

Open source data viz library for react - headless-charts/react

When 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
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  • Submitted
  • 23 Mar 2025
Theme: Imagine & Innovate Topic: Dashboard & interaction principles Submission Type: Lightning Talk

Prabhu Shiv Singh

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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
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  • 29 Mar 2025
Theme: Explore & Play Topic: Storytelling & structuring narratives Submission Type: Lightning Talk

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
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  • 30 Mar 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Process & practices of dataviz Submission Type: Lightning Talk

Anusheel Gurjar

Visualizing Data with Creative Coding

About: 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
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  • Submitted
  • 31 Mar 2025
Theme: Imagine & Innovate Topic: Experiential viz e.g. data art, installations Submission Type: Hands-on Workshop

Kadambari

Landscapes of Bangalore: Explorations with mapping, data visualisation and storytelling

This 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
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  • Submitted
  • 03 Apr 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Storytelling & structuring narratives Submission Type: Standard Talk

Siddharth Jain

10 Lessons from 10 Years in Data Storytelling

Why? 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
  • 0 comments
  • Submitted
  • 07 Apr 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Storytelling & structuring narratives Submission Type: Lightning Talk

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
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  • Submitted
  • 07 Apr 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Domain-specific data visualisations Submission Type: Lightning Talk

Krunal Palande

Information Design in Everyday Objects

As 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
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  • Submitted
  • 08 Apr 2025
Theme: Imagine & Innovate Topic: Process & practices of dataviz Submission Type: Standard Talk

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
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  • 08 Apr 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Unique works by Indian practitioners Submission Type: Standard Talk

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
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  • Submitted
  • 08 Apr 2025
Theme: Explore & Play Topic: Beyond viz eg. sonification, physicalization Submission Type: Hands-on Workshop

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
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  • Submitted
  • 09 Apr 2025
Theme: Explore & Play Topic: Experiential viz e.g. data art, installations Submission Type: Hands-on Workshop
Arundathi Rajan

Arundathi Rajan

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
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  • 09 Apr 2025
Theme: Imagine & Innovate Topic: Beyond viz eg. sonification, physicalization Submission Type: Standard Talk

Rama Krushna Behera

Planet Under Pressure: Visualizing Earth's Fragile Balance through Interaction

The 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
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  • Submitted
  • 10 Apr 2025
Theme: Imagine & Innovate Topic: Experiential viz e.g. data art, installations Submission Type: VizChitra (Alternative) Session
Arundathi Rajan

Arundathi Rajan

Democratising Data: Stories using everyday objects

About 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
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  • Submitted
  • 10 Apr 2025
Theme: Imagine & Innovate Topic: Beyond viz eg. sonification, physicalization Submission Type: VizChitra (Alternative) Session

Yashna Jhamb

Making Sense of Stories: Structuring Qual Data at Scale

Qualitative 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
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  • Submitted
  • 10 Apr 2025
Theme: Explore & Play Topic: Storytelling & structuring narratives Submission Type: Lightning Talk

Aditya Dahiya

Color, Code, and Creativity: Elevating Data with R’s ggplot2

Data Visualization Workshop Submission: Communicating Data with Beautiful Visualizations Using R and ggplot2 more
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  • Submitted
  • 11 Apr 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Process & practices of dataviz Submission Type: Standard Talk

Manju Catherine Pothen

What is your unique caregiving style?

{Describe your talk/session in 2-3 paragraphs} Interactive Data Visualisation Quiz more
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  • Submitted
  • 11 Apr 2025
Theme: Explore & Play Topic: Collaboration & conversational interfaces Submission Type: VizChitra (Alternative) Session

Simran

The Caregivers’ Load: Unpacking the Invisible Weight

About 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
  • 0 comments
  • Submitted
  • 11 Apr 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Storytelling & structuring narratives Submission Type: Standard Talk

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
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  • Submitted
  • 11 Apr 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Domain-specific data visualisations Submission Type: Hands-on Workshop

Rahul Beniwal

Neel Lakhwani

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
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  • Submitted
  • 11 Apr 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Accessibility, ethics & inclusion in dataviz Submission Type: Lightning Talk

SG

The Sonic Signature: Plotting Your Name's Audio Landscape

Ever 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
  • 0 comments
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  • 12 Apr 2025
Theme: Imagine & Innovate Topic: Beyond viz eg. sonification, physicalization Submission Type: Hands-on Workshop

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
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  • Submitted
  • 12 Apr 2025
Theme: Explore & Play Topic: Storytelling & structuring narratives Submission Type: Hands-on Workshop

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
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  • 12 Apr 2025
Theme: Explore & Play Topic: Scalable data exploration processes Submission Type: Standard Talk

Herry

Yashita

The Great Indian Data Chase: Data, Missing Data, and Measured Realities

This 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
  • 0 comments
  • Submitted
  • 13 Apr 2025
Theme: Explore & Play Topic: State of data in India (availability, collection...) Submission Type: Unconference / Birds of Feather (BoF) Session

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
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  • Submitted
  • 13 Apr 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Storytelling & structuring narratives Submission Type: Lightning Talk

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
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  • 13 Apr 2025
Theme: Imagine & Innovate Topic: Scalable data exploration processes Submission Type: Standard Talk

Chaitali Kulkarni

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Caloripoorna: If the Gods worked with data

What 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
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  • Submitted
  • 13 Apr 2025
Theme: Imagine & Innovate Topic: Experiential viz e.g. data art, installations Submission Type: Standard Talk
Anand S

Anand S

Visualizing Data with LLMs

Can we get LLMs to do all the work in creating data visualizations? How will this play out in the future? more
  • 1 comment
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  • 13 Apr 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Usage of AI & technology in data visualization workflows Submission Type: Standard Talk
Anand S

Anand S

Workshop: Create a Data Visualization using an LLM

In this workshop, you will create a visual data story end-to-end just using an LLM and deploy it. more
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  • Submitted
  • 13 Apr 2025
Theme: Explore & Play Topic: Usage of AI & technology in data visualization workflows Submission Type: Hands-on Workshop
bargava

bargava

Illuminating the Human Body: Data Visualization for Enhanced Radiology Workflows

Abstract 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
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  • 13 Apr 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Domain-specific data visualisations Submission Type: Standard Talk

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
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  • Submitted
  • 13 Apr 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Storytelling & structuring narratives Submission Type: Lightning Talk
Saket Choudhary

Saket Choudhary

The ATCGs of India’s Public Health Genome: A Visual Story of Anomalies, Trajectories, Correlations and Geographies

Did you know most babies in India are born in the second half of the year: more
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  • 13 Apr 2025
Theme: Explore & Play Topic: Domain-specific data visualisations Submission Type: Standard Talk

Aditi Bhat

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Moving Data - Climate Stripes in motion and emotion

Describe 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
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  • 14 Apr 2025
Theme: Imagine & Innovate Topic: Experiential viz e.g. data art, installations Submission Type: Standard Talk

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
  • 0 comments
  • Submitted
  • 14 Apr 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Aesthetics & design principles Submission Type: Standard Talk

Shubham Saurabh

A love chart to represent attraction

I created a Love Chart to explore what makes a person attractive. In my opinion, five key factors contribute to attractiveness: more
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  • Submitted
  • 14 Apr 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Storytelling & structuring narratives Submission Type: Lightning Talk

Aman Bhargava

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Tinkering

The 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
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  • Submitted
  • 14 Apr 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Process & practices of dataviz Submission Type: Standard Talk

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
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  • 14 Apr 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Accessibility, ethics & inclusion in dataviz Submission Type: Standard Talk

Anmol Pahwa

Fetching and Visualizing Daily Air Quality Data

Description 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
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  • 14 Apr 2025
Theme: Explore & Play Topic: State of data in India (availability, collection...) Submission Type: Lightning Talk

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
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  • 14 Apr 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Storytelling & structuring narratives Submission Type: Standard Talk

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
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  • 14 Apr 2025
Theme: Explore & Play Topic: State of data in India (availability, collection...) Submission Type: Standard Talk

Abhiram Jois

People, places and pixels : Working with communities and data

About 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
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  • 14 Apr 2025
Theme: Explore & Play Topic: Accessibility, ethics & inclusion in dataviz Submission Type: Standard Talk

Anushka G

Designing for Data Products: Spreadsheets to Figma

Overview 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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Explore & Play Topic: Process & practices of dataviz Submission Type: Standard Talk

Garima Jindal

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Comprehending Large Networks through Spirals

We 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
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  • Submitted
  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Explore & Play Topic: Scalable data exploration processes Submission Type: Lightning Talk

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
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  • Submitted
  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Explore & Play Topic: Accessibility, ethics & inclusion in dataviz Submission Type: Standard Talk

samridhi pandey

Data, Time, and Embodied Reflection: Transforming Personal Data into Tangible data art

I 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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Imagine & Innovate Topic: Beyond viz eg. sonification, physicalization Submission Type: Standard Talk

Shreeya Patil

How Farts Can Be a Source of Energy? : A Speculative Future

Design 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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Imagine & Innovate Topic: Beyond viz eg. sonification, physicalization Submission Type: VizChitra (Alternative) Session

Dwijaraj Bhattacharya

Having an Ear to the Cloud -- Understanding Customer Pain Points Using Social Media Data

This 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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Storytelling & structuring narratives Submission Type: Lightning Talk
Arundathi Rajan

Arundathi Rajan

Exploring Exhibition Design: Designing Experiences for Data Visualization

About 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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Aesthetics & design principles Submission Type: Lightning Talk

Swagata Raha

The Curious Case of Child Protection: Adventures in Data-Wonderland

Through 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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Storytelling & structuring narratives Submission Type: Standard Talk

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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Imagine & Innovate Topic: Accessibility, ethics & inclusion in dataviz Submission Type: Unconference / Birds of Feather (BoF) Session

Ashris Choudhury

Birds of a feather weave language maps together

i make visualizations of patterns hidden in languages. In this group activity, we shall be doing a series of activities such as: more
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Explore & Play Topic: Domain-specific data visualisations Submission Type: Unconference / Birds of Feather (BoF) Session

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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Storytelling & structuring narratives Submission Type: Unconference / Birds of Feather (BoF) Session

Karthik Shashidhar

Self Service BI Serves Nobody

The 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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Dashboard & interaction principles Submission Type: Standard Talk

Rutu Tank

Drawing (from) Data

OVERVIEW 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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Explore & Play Topic: Experiential viz e.g. data art, installations Submission Type: Standard Talk

Rutu Tank

Flipping Through - A Year in Data

OVERVIEW 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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Explore & Play Topic: Experiential viz e.g. data art, installations Submission Type: VizChitra (Alternative) Session

Smit Shah

Anekantadata - Multiplicity of datapoints

Have 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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Dashboard & interaction principles Submission Type: Lightning Talk

7538882992

The Quantified Self and Other Confluences between Data + Design

I 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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Aesthetics & design principles Submission Type: Standard Talk

Pragnya

Beyond Headlines: Understanding India Through Data

Good 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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Imagine & Innovate Topic: Experiential viz e.g. data art, installations Submission Type: VizChitra (Alternative) Session

Rukmini S

Putting the data in data viz

Past and present in data access in India, and some thoughts about who we are speaking to more
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: State of data in India (availability, collection...) Submission Type: Standard Talk

Gopika

Whose Analysis is it Anyway?- The Role of AI and Humans in Data Analysis and Visualization

Artificial 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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Imagine & Innovate Topic: Usage of AI & technology in data visualization workflows Submission Type: Unconference / Birds of Feather (BoF) Session

Pratyay Suvarnapathaki

Demystifying Shaders: A Practical Introduction

Session 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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Imagine & Innovate Topic: Emerging mediums e.g. 3D, AR/VR Submission Type: Lightning Talk

Arjav Parikh

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Mapping the Future: Building Transparent Cities with TownPlan Map

Session 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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Explore & Play Topic: State of data in India (availability, collection...) Submission Type: Standard Talk

Aatman Vaidya

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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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Process & practices of dataviz Submission Type: Lightning Talk

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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Explore & Play Topic: State of data in India (availability, collection...) Submission Type: Hands-on Workshop

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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Imagine & Innovate Topic: Storytelling & structuring narratives Submission Type: Standard Talk

Suhasini Seelin

Contractions - A performance/play on the dark side of AI and Data

What: 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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Imagine & Innovate Topic: Accessibility, ethics & inclusion in dataviz Submission Type: VizChitra (Alternative) Session

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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Explore & Play Topic: Storytelling & structuring narratives Submission Type: Lightning Talk

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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Process & practices of dataviz Submission Type: Lightning Talk

Kartik Chandramouli

Lessons For Newsrooms From Data Visualisers

In 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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Process & practices of dataviz Submission Type: Unconference / Birds of Feather (BoF) Session

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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Storytelling & structuring narratives Submission Type: Standard Talk

Tara

Science on the side : Contributing to and using citizen science data in India

Talk 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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Explore & Play Topic: State of data in India (availability, collection...) Submission Type: Unconference / Birds of Feather (BoF) Session

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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Explore & Play Topic: Domain-specific data visualisations Submission Type: Lightning Talk

Shruti Pawar

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Datavizards & Stitch Witches: Crafting Textile Artifacts

Can we treat soft materials as hard drives of human experience? more
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Explore & Play Topic: Beyond viz eg. sonification, physicalization Submission Type: Hands-on Workshop

Prof. Kavitha Ranganathan

Understanding Colour - The impact of astute colour choices for your Data Visualization

Color 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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Aesthetics & design principles Submission Type: Standard Talk

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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Aesthetics & design principles Submission Type: Standard Talk

Arun Sudarsan

Making the Invisible Visible: Transforming Budget Data for Civic Engagement

Note 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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Domain-specific data visualisations Submission Type: Hands-on Workshop

Kartik Chandramouli

Viz-à-viz News

What 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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Unique works by Indian practitioners Submission Type: Lightning Talk

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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Imagine & Innovate Topic: Process & practices of dataviz Submission Type: Standard Talk

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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Explore & Play Topic: Storytelling & structuring narratives Submission Type: Hands-on Workshop

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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Process & practices of dataviz Submission Type: Lightning Talk

lubhyathi

Beyond Flat Narratives: Decoding The Law Visually

India’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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Imagine & Innovate Topic: Unique works by Indian practitioners Submission Type: Standard Talk

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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Explore & Play Topic: Domain-specific data visualisations Submission Type: VizChitra (Alternative) Session

Tanvi Sharma

What Data Does and Does Not Represent: Visualizing the Archive of Slavery

Our 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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Imagine & Innovate Topic: Accessibility, ethics & inclusion in dataviz Submission Type: Standard Talk

Anushka G

Rutu Tank

You Had One Job: Chart Edition

Overview ‘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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Experiential viz e.g. data art, installations Submission Type: VizChitra (Alternative) Session

Harsha Devulapalli

DIY : Building your own datasets

Anyone 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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Process & practices of dataviz Submission Type: Standard Talk

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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Process & practices of dataviz Submission Type: Hands-on Workshop

Srinivasan Ramani

Setting the Context: How Data Journalism is Redefining Print

Description 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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Usage of AI & technology in data visualization workflows Submission Type: Standard Talk

Aditi Bhat

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Spinning Stories: Embodying and Visceralizing Data

Spinning Stories: Embodying and Visceralizing Data A 2-hour workshop on data, motion, and meaning more
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Imagine & Innovate Topic: Beyond viz eg. sonification, physicalization Submission Type: VizChitra (Alternative) Session

ciju cherian

A perspective on visualization - with a case study

I 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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Process & practices of dataviz Submission Type: Standard Talk

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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Aesthetics & design principles Submission Type: Lightning Talk

Shruti Pawar

RUBY RYBIN

The Fabric of Dissent

Textiles as protest, archives, and hidden histories. more
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Imagine & Innovate Topic: Experiential viz e.g. data art, installations Submission Type: Hands-on Workshop

Chandni Tekwani

Designing Data Viz for the Unseen

About 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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Storytelling & structuring narratives Submission Type: VizChitra (Alternative) Session
Prakriti Bakshi

Prakriti Bakshi

VizChitra Data Trail: A way to connect, collect, and reflect

Description 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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Imagine & Innovate Topic: Experiential viz e.g. data art, installations Submission Type: VizChitra (Alternative) Session

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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Experiential viz e.g. data art, installations Submission Type: VizChitra (Alternative) Session

Shruti Pawar

RUBY RYBIN

Play Date-ing

A 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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Explore & Play Topic: Beyond viz eg. sonification, physicalization Submission Type: Hands-on Workshop

Sowmya Jayaraman

Data Archeology: Unearthing Data Artefacts from Ancient Cultures

𝗔𝗕𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗧 Have you ever thought if your next Data Visualisation inspiration could come from history? more
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Imagine & Innovate Topic: Experiential viz e.g. data art, installations Submission Type: Hands-on Workshop

Syamantak Gupta

Maps in Games

As 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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Storytelling & structuring narratives Submission Type: Lightning Talk

Surbhi Jain

The Shape of Memory

About 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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Imagine & Innovate Topic: Beyond viz eg. sonification, physicalization Submission Type: Lightning Talk

Vaidehi Shirsath

Reimagining Traditional Dashboard Design

In 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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Explore & Play Topic: Process & practices of dataviz Submission Type: Lightning Talk

Ipsita Rajak

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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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Imagine & Innovate Topic: Experiential viz e.g. data art, installations Submission Type: Unconference / Birds of Feather (BoF) Session

Sajal Tiwari

Seeing India from Above: Telling Stories Through Satellite data

Session 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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
Theme: Explain & Learn Topic: Process & practices of dataviz Submission Type: Lightning Talk

Ipsita Rajak

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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
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  • 15 Apr 2025
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Ipsita Rajak

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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
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