I am a factory kid
I am a factory kid.
Gurman Bhatia
Gurman Bhatia is an information designer, data viz trainer and award-winning data journalist.
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Giving without expectation
I’ve been thinking about a strange question. How do you give to something, not because you will get anything back, but simply because you believe in it?
The plan, three years on
In March 2023, three months before I registered Revisual Labs, I sat down and scribbled a plan into a notebook. I still have the page. In the middle, in big letters, it says WHY DATAVIZ STUDIO IN INDIA. Around it: the kinds of work we might do, a list of the people I would need, and in one corner, two words I had no real right to be confident about, a culture and a community.
Information Design from the Early 2000s
My husband and I were watching a movie last night and went into a YouTube rabbit hole. My TIL moment was about Ceefax, a BBC teletext service that ran from 1974 to 2012. It was basically interactive TV before digital interactivity existed. You could flip through pages of news, weather, sports scores, stock charts, all on your television screen.
The Medium Is the Message: Six Mediums for Data Storytelling
I studied Journalism in my college. And in my Media Theory class, my professor Bindu Menon introduced us to Marshall McLuhan.
VizChitra is back. Will you be in the room?
When we first had the idea for a dataviz community in India, we created a WhatsApp group. It now has over 1,500 people. I did not know that 1,500 people in India cared about charts.
Notes from a ninety minute conversation on career, craft and confidence
I recently sat down with Payal Chugh Vaidya on Design Etc. and chatted for ninety minutes. About data viz, career, cooking, crying over spreadsheets. Here are some highlights from the conversation.
Interactivity as a storytelling tool in data visualisation
This post is adapted from a talk I gave at IIT Guwahati in September 2024. The framework I use here comes from a paper I really like — “Communicating with Interactive Articles” by Hohman, Conlen, Heer and Chau (Distill, 2020). If you’re interested in the theory behind interactive storytelling, I’d highly recommend reading it. I’ve taken their framework and filled it with examples — some from my…
1,000 days of trying to run a company (and somewhat succeeding)
Originally posted on LinkedIn.
My free online course for the Open Visualisation Academy is live!
Originally posted on LinkedIn.