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Workshops
Observe, Collect, Map: A Sensory Data Walkshop
Expand what counts as data. Learn to map it. Outside. Walking. Together.
VIZCHITRA 2026
Join us for talks, workshops, dialogues, and an exhibition.
Two days of data visualization, curated by India's data viz community
3rd & 4th July, 2026
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“Attending this conference was truly eye-opening—I discovered so many new ideas and perspectives that I hadn't encountered before. Unlike other events, this one stood out for its unique approach and inclusive atmosphere.”
WORKSHOP DAY on Friday, 03 July 2026
Three hours, hands-on Workshop facilitated by leading practitioners at Bangalore International Centre (BIC) & Underline Center.
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Workshops
Designing Data Stories for Small Screens
Redesign your visualisation for the six-inch screen most of your audience actually uses.
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Workshops
Draw with Data: Custom Dataviz Using D3
Go from basic shapes to custom, interactive viz you always imagined in code
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Workshops
A Dataviz Crash Course (Without The Crash Out)
Learn the decisions behind good charts and leave with a framework to make them yourself.
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Workshops
From Tables to Maps with Datawrapper
No GIS software needed. Just your data & browser to make it a publish-ready map.
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Data Rough: Sketching the Foundations of Data Stories
Learn to sketch your way to stronger visual data stories, whatever your drawing ability
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Interactive DataViz using AI Coding
Ship a live, interactive web visualisation from your own dataset.
CONFERENCE DAY on Saturday, 04 July 2026
Full day of sessions including Talks, Dialogues, and the Exhibition at Bangalore International Centre (BIC), Bengaluru.
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Talks
The Infinite Graphic Space: Beyond Grammar
Every grammar is a map with edges. This keynote charts what lies beyond them.
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Talks
A Majestic Map Redesign: Data, Design & Government
Maps shape how cities feel. One bus station showed it.
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Talks
Telling Timely & Timeless Stories with Data
A hundred ways to see India. Learning to see the difference.
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Talks
The Data Viz Drift: What Nobody Tells You
Data viz rarely stays data viz. An honest reckoning with the careers behind the craft.
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Talks
eSankhyiki: Visualization at Scale
Public data should serve the public. The journey of doing it at India's scale.
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Talks
Dashboards of our Discontent
More dashboards than ever. Still waiting for ones that actually work.
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Talks
There Are No Clean Maps
Maps look certain. The hidden work behind every one of them is not.
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Talks
What's in Your Bag? Really!
Data does not travel on its own. You have to construct the meaning.
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Talks
Kuch Kuch Data Hai: Bollywood, Visualised
First-day. Matinee show. In the Audi. Opening 04 July.
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Talks
The Shape of Health Costs
Every chart simplifies reality. The best ones carry complexity with care.
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Talks
Caption This: Teaching Machines to Narrate Charts
Generating captions is easy. Curating the right one is not. Can machines learn the difference?
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Talks
Bite-Sized Views, Crore-Sized Backlog
One number tells you nothing. One hearing tells you everything.
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Visualising care in rural healthcare
Data should serve the people it's about. This is what that looks like in practice.
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Talks
Atlas of Intangibles
The senses hold data too. Mapped across cities, one walk at a time.
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Talks
Design for Speed and Trust, Together.
AI in radiology creates high-stakes decisions. Good viz helps people make them thoughtfully.
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Talks
Sand, Data, and Wicked Problems
Open data alone does not build intention. You have to redirect the river.
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Talks
Designing Dashboards for Life and Death
Every dashboard has a north star. Choose it wisely and the system follows.
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Dialogues
The Curator's Dilemma
When making is easy, choosing is the craft.
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Dialogues
The Stories our Charts don't Tell (yet)
Every dashboard assumes a worldview. This dialogue asks what yours is.
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Dialogues
A Collective Autopsy of Chart Crimes
Charts look objective. That's what makes them dangerous.
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Exhibition
Puddle Beneath the Plate
What if the water behind our food sat visibly at the table with us?
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Exhibition
Too hot to open
Windows into a future too hot to step outside
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Exhibition
Silent Cities
The city sounds different when sparrows disappear
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Exhibition
Vanishing Wings
Threads that trace the disappearance of insects
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Exhibition
Fading Out
When species disappear, the data fades with them.
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Exhibition
An Ancient River, A Modern Thirst
Living through the collapse of a river’s old rhythm
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Exhibition
The Pollution That Wasn't
A portrait of emissions prevented through public transit
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Exhibition
The Scent of Grounded Change
An olfactory archive of rain, land, and urban change
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Exhibition
Klimate Kundli
A personal horoscope for a planet in transition
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We received over 150 submissions across four formats—Talks, Dialogues, Workshops, and Exhibition. Browse all submitted proposals below.