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Aman Bhargava

@aman.bh
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code, data and design person. I run diagramchasing.fun. Bangalore, India #dataviz #rstats #svelte #maps 🔗 aman.bh

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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
CuspHanger 0.4.0 gives you control over the lightness steps, in the form of a bezier curve or any other function. meodai.github.io/cusphanger/
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ms. Rachel: "Ed Sheeran had an opportunity…Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows." "If more than 20,000 white children were killed…everyone would be shouting…Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."
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"Ed Sheeran had an opportunity show that we won't be bullied into punishing people for supporting Palestine. Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows. A genocide is happening in Gaza. We all need to speak out against it.

"If more than 20,000 white children were killed in another part of the world, everyone would be shouting about it at their concerts. Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."
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Attila Bátorfy @attilabatorfy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Today on Cabinet of Infographic Curiosities we present a long-forgotten graphic method: the Haeckel-inspired organic diagrams created by the Russian-German sociologist Paul von Lilienfeld to visualize social complexity. Read the full story here: attilabatorfy.substack.com/p/a-graphic-...
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Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 09/09/2026
In other news, Diagram Chasing is now on Bluesky! Follow for data stories and other beautiful data knick-knacks from India.
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Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 09/09/2026
My quarterly attempt at making videos to promote our #dataviz projects @diagramchasing.fun 🫠 I cirrusly dew not want to do this.
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Deepali Kank @deepalikank.in · 09/09/2026
#TidyTuesday week 36 - The Cappuccino Index #DataViz #Rstats
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Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 08/09/2026
I finally got myself an RTL-SDR receiver and today afternoon tracked the Meteor M2 satellite. With an antenna strapped to the end of a mop, I dangled off the edge of my balcony and got this beautiful reading of almost the entire Indian peninsula. #maps My mind is blown!
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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 03/09/2026
Thoughts about GenAI & design in the newsletter: "Cognitive augmentation, cognitive surrender, and oblivious centaurs" openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/cognitive-... #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization
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Cognitive augmentation, cognitive surrender, and oblivious centaurs
We're back with a new introductory course in the Open Visualization Academy
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Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 03/09/2026
The ol' word game tracking dashboard got a facelift after 2.5 years (picture below of the Before). Shifted from an R Shiny dashboard to a Sveltekit PWA (which can be installed on our phones!). #dataviz
Daily game score dashboard showing Aman winning 2–1 against Rhea, detailing individual scores for Wordle, Connections, and Mini crosswords with mini-grid previews.Overall stats screen showing a 234–251 lifetime score for Wordle between Aman and Rhea, along with game averages, solve rates, and a "Lead over time" line graph.Statistics breakdown featuring Wordle guess distribution histograms for both players and a monthly wins comparison chart from October to August.Raw data table displaying historical game results by date and player for Wordle, Connections, and Mini crosswords, with individual game grids and completion times.
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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Totally agree. Attila's posts are always a delight. I find myself thinking: where did he find these things??
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Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 31/08/2026
We're all lucky to have The Cabinet of Infographic Curiosities and all the work @attilabatorfy.bsky.social has been putting in! Let’s help it reach a wider audience this year. If you're into #dataviz, help spread the love of these beautiful finds to those who haven't found this great resource yet.
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Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 29/08/2026
It's extremely amusing that seismo.gov.in clips the earthquake impact data to our boundaries because an earthquake that happens in India stays in India, as everyone knows. #dataviz We will not part with one pixel of extra information *waves fist patriotically*
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 27/08/2026
My latest interactive explainer all about the technology behind record players is done! perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck...
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Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 26/08/2026
Oh no, I made a sankeystackedareachart
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Attila Bátorfy @attilabatorfy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A beautiful map on the locations, numbers and genealogies of Muslim brotherhoods in Algeria from 1884. Full story here: attilabatorfy.substack.com/p/seeds-leav...
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Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 25/08/2026
Clouds made it to the Dispatch!
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Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 24/08/2026
These are what I recreated from the original meteogram #dataviz. It's chunky clouds everywhere!
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K @kerry.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
[ this is delightful ] Mapping India's Clouds diagramchasing.fun/2026/mapping... via @aman.bh
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Mapping India's Clouds
A daily pixel map of cloud cover over India, read from IMD meteograms.
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Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 24/08/2026
Every day, India's Met department publishes a forecast chart for ~1,200 stations. Their cloud-cover panel is drawn to look like a pixelated cloudy sky! I've been analyzing the charts to convert them to data, and map them daily in the same pixel art style. #dataviz diagramchasing.fun/2026/mapping...
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Mapping India's Clouds
A daily pixel map of cloud cover over India, read from IMD meteograms.
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michael h keller @mhkeller.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
We did a massive data-collection-and-joining effort combined with statistical modeling to estimate that about 200 to 400 pedestrians are dying each year who otherwise would have survived if vehicles were about the same size as they were around 20 years ago. Cumulatively, that's thousands of deaths.
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michael h keller @mhkeller.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Our latest investigation: How giant trucks and SUVs are far deadlier for pedestrians. “Before the driver knows what’s happened, the pedestrian’s head is under the wheel.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s (Gift Article)
The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.
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Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 17/06/2026
Indian censor board cuts to any film used to be published in government gazettes by law. I collected 8,000 movies from the 1960s-90s and dug through them in this new post. Bond, Lawrence of Arabia, a lot of nervousness about communists and "suggestions of kissing". #dataviz aman.bh/blog/2026/hi...
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Historical Indian film censorship from 1960s to 1990s | Aman Bhargava
I found decades of the Indian film censor board's cuts buried in old government gazettes on the Internet Archive, covering the 1960s to the 1990s.
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Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 27/05/2026
C'est moi!
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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
And with such a nice organic pie chart! (Enjoyed your article)
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Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 20/04/2026
Absolutely honored to have been asked to write for Attila. His work has been such an inspiration and the Cabinet of Infographic Curiosities is one of my favorite #dataviz blogs! A look at some of my favorite picks from the 1971 and 1981 Indian censuses.
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Attila Bátorfy @attilabatorfy.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
This Monday, a fantastic guest post is coming to Cabinet of Infographic Curiosities by the great Aman Bhargava @aman.bh
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Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 01/04/2026
AI hype is weird. I use Claude too, but I'm not a "fan". It's a tool. Does it not matter what it is being used to make? You can make good things or you can make mediocre things. If you make good things that others value too, then it is by "you". Why purely evangelize a tool and diminish yourself.
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Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 01/04/2026
It's been a pleasure (and privilege) to see LayerChart grow and grow, getting better with each release. The new docs are wonderful. Indispensable chart tooling for Svelte!
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Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 28/03/2026
The Census of India has never been very reader-friendly. But in 1970s, a series of events led to government putting effort into publishing very interesting, truly "Indian" #dataviz for the average reader. My new story, with an explorer and some comics! More ⬇️ 🔗 diagramchasing.fun/2026/portrai...
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Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 28/03/2026
I've been truly inspired by the archival work and writings on historical dataviz by @infowetrust.com, @attilabatorfy.bsky.social and @datavisfriendly.bsky.social. My main motivation here was to see if I can find #dataviz for the Indian context. This is a small start and part of the learning process!
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Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 28/03/2026
The Census of India has never been very reader-friendly. But in 1970s, a series of events led to government putting effort into publishing very interesting, truly "Indian" #dataviz for the average reader. My new story, with an explorer and some comics! More ⬇️ 🔗 diagramchasing.fun/2026/portrai...
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Voilà: Francis Gagnon @chezvoila.com · 26/03/2026
A reminder that if you’re looking for dataviz content on Bluesky, there’s a lot here 👇📊
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Voilà: Francis Gagnon @chezvoila.com · 26/03/2026
I always think I should make a thread of it, but I can't find the time, so here it is, one of the projects I'm most proud of: we developed the dataviz standards for the Quebec government's website. 📊
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Establish government-wide data visualization standards - Voilà:
How do we create data visualization standards for most provincial government departments?
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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 11/03/2026
I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...
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Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature
The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.
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Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 11/03/2026
Really written with a lot of heart, full of interactive #dataviz AND if that wasn't enough, music by Shri himself (what a flex)!! Stunning piece of work.
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Isabella Velásquez @ivelasq3.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Who needs PowerPoint when you have Quarto and @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social's extensions?! I wanted to make an image-heavy presentation. Usually, I'd reach for Keynote. But Emil shared quarto-revealjs-editable, which let me stay in Quarto land 🥰 Thanks, Emil! Find it here: github.com/EmilHvitfeld...
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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 09/03/2026
📚 I'm happy to release free, online textbooks covering the two courses I taught at the hashtag#NICAR26 data journalism conference put on by Investigative Reporters and Editors last week in Indianapolis.
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Amanda Shendruk @not-ship.com · 05/03/2026
How I figure out how far to dive into the topic ... well that's a bit of an instinct I've developed from doing this for years. But basically I try to keep the idea to a single take-away (ie: wealthy live in the shade!), and I try to keep it under about 1000 words.
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Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 05/03/2026
Another NICAR, another year of FOMO. One day.
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Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 02/03/2026
I gave a guest talk at Purdue on intro to data storytelling in 'lowercase'. Writing it reminded me of when I was a student and thought only one kind of story, the Big Story, could exist. Some of this feels obvious to us in the #dataviz space, but maybe it isn't. Slides: aman.bh/blog/2026/da...
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data storytelling in lowercase - guest talk at Purdue | Aman Bhargava
Thoughts on what it means for me to engage in data storytelling, in lowercase
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Nadieh Bremer @nadiehbremer.com · 12/02/2026
📣 NEW! I’ve just released the BIGGEST and perhaps most creative project I’ve ever worked on! “Searching for Birds” searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com 🐤 A project, an article, an exploration that dives into the data that connects humans with birds, by looking at how we search for birds.
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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 10/02/2026
RE: mastodon.palewi.re/@palewire/116000… Week 3's class, an introduction Svelte and component-based design, is live and free to anyone interested in taking it. palewi.re/docs/coding-the-news/scri…
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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Looks like my full series on using color in #dataviz finally made the migration to the new NASA science website: science.nasa.gov/blogs/earth-... If you’re new to visualization, or just want a refresher, it covers the basics of color theory, how to build a palette, plus some tips & tricks.
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Introduction (Subtleties of Color, Part 1 of 6) - NASA Science
The purpose of data visualization—any data visualization—is to illuminate data. To show patterns and relationships that are otherwise hidden in an impenetrable mass of numbers.
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Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 09/02/2026
Get your submissions in!! @vizchitra.bsky.social #dataviz
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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 09/02/2026
🗞️ Nieman Lab republished the piece Scott Klein and I put together analyzing the decline of open-source news. If you haven't checked it out yet, here's another chance. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/journalis…
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Journalism lost its culture of sharing. Here’s how we rebuild it
The data are clear: The open-source culture that defined an earlier era of online journalism has collapsed.
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Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 09/02/2026
The Indian government released an MCP server that lets you query their survey data using plain English and get back aggregate statistics from national surveys. I explore some of its possibilities and limitations. #data #stats aman.bh/blog/2026/qu...
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Querying India's MoSPI Data with Claude and MCP | Aman Bhargava
The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation released a new tool for LLM-assisted querying of their survey data. I explore some of it's possibilities.
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Ilja @fubits.dev · 25/01/2026
Started to feel like I'm gatekeeping it so I'll rather just share the draft: Last fall I started a opinionated Svelte 5 onboarding flow / roadmap. Plan was to translate it into an interactive (with links and more details) over Xmas but I had to take a hard break. I'll probably go for it in February
Screenshot of rough flowchart sketch in TLDraw:

It has sections from start, learn, setup, build, deploy, master, to "stay up to date" and lists suggestions for each.
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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 08/02/2026
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
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Bluesky Map
Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.
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Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 09/02/2026
I can't believe I get to see this be used in context lmao
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Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 05/02/2026
A new AI-generated writing giveaway I've begun to spot is the overuse of quiet/quietly as an adjective. "Quiet intentionality", "quiet strength", "quiet revolution", quiet this quiet that; everything is quiet. Vague enough to fit anywhere and give a sense of understatedness.
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