Recently, more than 400 people gathered in the Indian city of Bengaluru for VizChitra 2026, a conference on data visualization and storytelling — but that is only a small part of the story.

“Those are too many dots,” said a designer in the audience, looking at a chart showing data centres plotted on a world map. Prakriti Bakshi, an independent journalist conducting the workshop, didn’t f...

The climate movement has data, yet climate communication still struggles with a fundamental problem: people don't experience numbers.