I speak and run workshops on data visualisation, data journalism, and the craft of building stories with data. I also talk about building a design practice from India. My work has taken me to conferences and professional spaces in different parts of the world: Egypt, the United States, Singapore, Switzerland, Canada and India.

Transcripts

Some of my talks, written up as posts.

Five Realisations from Trying to Build a Niche Design Practice

October 2025 ADI DoBeDo Pro 2025, Delhi NCR

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

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

Interviews

• The Power of Data Storytelling: Gurman Bhatia Breaks It Down / Newspaper Design
• The Power of Data Storytelling / Design Etc
• 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