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Making chord diagrams with Circos Online

What is Circos? Circos is a free and open source software package for visualizing data in a circular layout i.e. as chord diagrams. It has been featured in many scientific and other publications (including the covers of both Science and Nature), so it’s safe to say science people really like it. Why Circos? It looks pretty. Circular layout...

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Talk by economist and journalist John Samuel Raja.

Talk by John Samuel Raja, economist and journalist. Part of guest lectures for DE-705 Interactive data visualization. How India Lives John Samuel Raja’s startup working in the space of making public data available to everyone. The Problem Public data exists, but few people use it to make decisions because : It is not clear if it’s free to ...

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Design Research Methodologies

Running notes from the Design Research Methodologies course at IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay. Friday, 2 August 2019 Girish Dalvi Source Grid Author Definition Notes Athavankar (1990) Design is… First Definition Balram (1995) Design is… Inspired by Ulm...

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Contributing to OpenStreetMap

What is OSM? OpenStreetMap is an open source project that aims to create a free, editable map of the world. It’s like Wikipedia, but for maps. Contributing to OSM As part of my Data Visualization course at IDC School of Design, my classmates and I went to Galleria and Central Avenue in Hirandandani, Powai, and marked some places on the map. Thi...

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Brush Lettering

About the project I started this project for Inktober 2016. I’d been learning brush lettering for a while, and I painted a series of pop-culture phrases from things that I love. They’re mostly watercolor on paper, with some digital processing to clean up blemishes. Here are a few of my favorites. Hello World. As an engineering student turn...

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New Delhi Dribbble Meetup

Check out the shot on Dribbble. One day as I was on Dribbble, I stumbled upon their meetups section. I realised there hadn’t been one in Delhi, so I decided to organise one. Meetup attendees at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. We had 14 designers from various fields talk about their experiences with design, their processes, as well ...

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