I am Gurman Bhatia, an entrepreneur, a data visualisation designer, trainer, speaker and former journalist.
Currently, I am building India's first information design and data visualisation development agency - Revisual Labs. I am also one of the co-founders of VizChitra - India's data visualisation community and conference.
Check out my free course “The craft of building stories with data” for the Open Visualisation Academy.
Interested in collaborating with Revisual? Get on a call to tell us about your company’s needs.
From talks to blogs
I love teaching and sharing my passion for data in news with an audience. My work has taken me to conferences in different parts of the world, ranging from Egypt to India. Here are the transcripts from a few.
Picture perfect dataviz
February 2022 Outlier 2022, Virtual
Structuring visual narratives to feed the curiosity
March 2021 World IA Day, Virtual
Creating responsive data visualisations
November 2020 Content Web, Virtual
When statistics become stories
November 2019 DesignUp, Bangalore
Ideas and resources
Resources and ideas around data visualisation and journalism.
Dataset of datasets about India
May 2021
Data visualisation and data journalism resources
February 2021
Frequently Asked Questions
February 2021
Interviews
- 40-minute long conversation on DesignUp’s Unmute about data and graphics journalism, my professional journey and the process of creating and learning.
- Episode on Photography as dataviz on DataViz: Lesson and Listen by Bill Shander / LinkedIn
- Some of my favourite tools / Global Investigative Journalism Network
- For Andy Kirk’s Explore Explain, I delved into the behind the scenes of The figures behind the faces, a piece I did for Reuters during the 2019 Indian elections. ( Audio / Video )
- Unedited thoughts on upskilling and data journalism for In Old News
- I answer six questions for Giuseppe Sollazzo’s data newsletter / Quantum of Sollazzo
- On D3’s 10th anniversary, Toph Tucker wrote about all the places a Javascript library moved people. How D3 moved us / Observable
- How design shapes news and storytelling – tips from Gurman Bhatia, Reuters / Yourstory
- How the Hindustan Times is introducing Indian readers to interactive stories / Storybench
Talks and Panels
- Data Storytelling for Print and Packaging, Print Business Outlook, February 2025
- Enabling Effective Policy Making with Data, Pune Public Policy Festival 2025
- Conversation for Climate Data Safe Hackathon, January 2025
- From Seeds to Forests: Stories of Change using Open Data, Civic Sabha, November 2023
- Picture Perfect Dataviz, Outlier 2022
- Bringing the Power of dataviz to everyone, Coda.BR 2021
- Visual Narratives to feed the curiosity, World IA Day, 2021
- When statistics become stories, DesignUp 2019