Analyzing AI slop designs with basic heuristics 🔗
I am pro AI for code, anti-AI for most visual, reader-facing things. A senior engineer might feel the exact opposite; we naturally hate this thing mor [...]
Aman Bhargava
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data storytelling in lowercase - guest talk at Purdue 🔗
Thoughts on what it means for me to engage in data storytelling, in lowercase [...]
Querying India's MoSPI Data with Claude and MCP 🔗
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 pos [...]
Mapping The Red Headed League 🔗
I used London's 1893 Ordnance Survey maps to trace the routes each character takes in The Red-Headed League. Does the geography hold up in real life? [...]
Mapping the Red-Headed League 🔗
I looked at 1893 Ordnance Survey Maps to map how the characters in The Red-Headed League move through London [...]
A4 Paper Stories 🔗
> These numbers are etched in my memory like the multiplication table of 1.1. We can keep going further to get A5, A6, etc. We could, in theory, go a [...]
Isochrones and responsibility of visualization 🔗
Can data-visualization be naive? [...]
Creating Embroidered Charts with R and ImageMagick 🔗
Making ggplot charts look like embroidered cloth using ImageMagick and R. [...]
Two Years of Word Games 🔗
Two years of data, hundreds of NYT word games, and one custom dashboard later, the results are in and I am the Loser Maximus. [...]
Note from Dec 18, 2025 🔗
 I think it is absolutely incredible that I can import vector labels of place name [...]
Anirudh's stories from Meghalaya 🔗
> One failed plan after another, even though I had no plan. I wanted to know who I should blame for all my troubles and of course, it is me. My fri [...]
I want to stop defining by the negative 🔗
Our talk at IndiaFoss went well, but one specific slide has been on my mind ever since. A reflection on the easy trap of defining creative work by wha [...]
AI-generated text in Indian government documents 🔗
Searching for signs of AI-generated text in official Indian government documents [...]
Note from Dec 4, 2025 🔗
Here's what I am looking forward to at this [year's BLR Lit Fest](https://bangaloreliteraturefestival.org/year-2025/schedule/): | Day | Date | Tim [...]
Note from Dec 4, 2025 🔗
> I’ve sometimes fallen into the trap of thinking that complementing a creative person for their work is less sophisticated or desired than discussion [...]
Photo from Dec 3, 2025 🔗
Surprise surprise, Fall of Civilizations is my top podcast this year. This says around 6.3k minutes listened to on Spotify, but my guesstimate would b [...]
Photo from Nov 24, 2025 🔗
Last week for no particular reason, I took a 200 kilometer journey around Bangalore using only BMTC buses. It was quite a lot of fun. I had not planne [...]
Bajrangi Bhaijaan in 2025 and Youtube Journalism 🔗
Bajrangi Bhaijaan feels distant in 2025, its Youtube journalist Chand Nawab feels closer. [...]
Note from Nov 18, 2025 🔗
Which map looks more inviting? One is Google Maps, the other is OpenStreetMaps on OSMAnd. You choose.  > Zohran's visual campaign is so cool. It feels like it could fit in one [...]
Note from Nov 2, 2025 🔗
> News often treats technology as something that happens to it, like an asteroid — but software is a creative work, just as journalism is. We have the [...]
Photo from Nov 2, 2025 🔗
Dosas outside have been reduced to once a week at Gayathri Coffee Kendra. This is my standard order for the last year; one butter khali dosa (with a p [...]
I love my new RSS feed 🔗
I set up FreshRSS on my server a few days ago and I have been _loving_ the experience. Subscribing to RSS and having an RSS reader always felt like on [...]
Note from Oct 20, 2025 🔗
> Once more with feeling: The functionality of a city, and of its transport system, arises from the sum of everyone’s choices about how to travel, no [...]
Note from Oct 18, 2025 🔗
> What you need to be aware of when you are looking at a map is how it lies to you; it is a seductress. You think because it represents reality you ca [...]