The Fifth Elephant 2025 Winter Edition

This is a BoF (i.e. interactive, round table) session bringing together data visualization and AI practitioners, discussing about how AI is in the process of upending data visualization.

Now it is easy for non-technical people to easily produce data visualizations, and communicate effectively - even without using basic tools such as MS Excel. With a few prompts, one can pull and manipulate
data and make beautiful charts with it.

Key Takeaways

In this BoF, we intend to discuss=:

1. Sets of tools / prompts that can help make superior visualizations, and communicate effectively.
2. If, and how, we can do so much more in terms of data visualization thanks to the tools that LLMs offer.
3. Pitfalls, if any, of easy access to data viz tools - does this mean we get more bad visualizations, and if so, what we can do to make sure we interpret them properly?

Intended Audience
Practitioners of data visualization, of all levels (beginner / intermediate / advanced)

Speaker Bio

Karthik Shashidhar is cofounder and CEO of Babbage Insight. He is an award winning data science leader, who was previously the head of analytics and data science at Delhivery. He has been a columnist for Mint, and has written Between The Buyer And The Seller, a book on market design. He has a lifetime corpus of 3000+ blog posts, and he now writes at Pertinent Observations.