Submissions for VizChitra 2026

My talk introduces the concept of Vibe Charting: a rapid, exploratory approach to data visualization that transforms a spark of curiosity into a visual signal within minutes. At its core, Vibe Charting is about lowering the barrier between hypothesis...

Anant

Founder, CEO

randomwalk.ai

Dialogues Visualizations as Craft

Documenting a Best Practices Guide for Mapping in India

The talks aims to document some of the best practices while visualizing data on a map especially in the Indian Context? CONTEXT It is an exciting time to make maps. Free and Open Source tools have democratized map making . More and more data is b...

Deepak Thomas

Assistant Professor

Believers Church Medical College Hospital

Seven Decades in Three Inches: Designing Data as Belonging

How do you tell a seven-decade story on a 3-inch magnet? This talk explores how the metaphor of tree rings became the foundation for translating 60+ years of alumni history into a tangible artifact. What began as a keepsake for 150+ alumni evolved i...

Kuhu

Data Visualization Engineer

Illumio

Getting wild with Data. Re-embodying Data Through Myth, Metonym and Biophilia

Why I’m Giving This Talk I keep waiting for the era where we finally retire the pie chart. Or at least admit we’re tired of pretending a bar chart is a revelation. And yet, somehow, we’re still here—polishing the same geometries for every new datase...

Indhu Kanth

Co-Founder & Creative Director

Become (Frozen Iris Pvt Limited)

Dialogues Visualizations for Community

Games as an interface for complex data

Context
Real-world problems are often complex and messy, involving multiple dimensions and rarely offering a single straightforward solution. We have been working with questions around such wicked problems: How do we better understand what makes pe...

sukanya

Senior Designer

Fields of View

Hide & Seek, the Creature Inside the Dataset. Re-embodying Data Through Myth, Metonym and Biophilia

Why I’m Running This? I keep waiting for the era where we finally retire the pie chart. Or at least admit we’re tired of pretending a bar chart is a revelation. And yet, somehow, we’re still here, polishing the same geometries for every datasets. A...

Indhu Kanth

Co-Founder & Creative Director

Become (Frozen Iris Pvt Limited)

Gibbon Moves: Navigating an altered habitat

Gibbon Moves is an interactive illustrated map that transforms behavioral and ecological data on a family of endangered Western Hoolock Gibbons in Barekuri, Assam into a participatory, gamified experience. It invites visitors to explore how habitat f...

Sambita

Research Coordinator

Canopy Collective

Reflecting On Birds

This project is an object-based installation that addresses the overlooked ecological issue of bird-window collisions in India. While this phenomenon is well-documented in North America, it remains understudied in the Indian context, despite the rapi...

Kartik

Senior Digital Editor

Mongabay-India

From Data to Decision: Transforming Enterprise Intelligence Through AI-Powered Visualization

Overview: As a Women Leader in Data Analytics at BGSW, I lead the organization's data visualization and analytics transformation initiatives across diverse industries including manufacturing, industry 4.0, mobility, sustainability, and services. This...

Jalaja

Program Manager

BGSW

The Hidden Cost of Intelligence: Visualizing AI Infrastructure's Environmental Impact on Indian Cities

It started with an Instagram post I couldn't stop thinking about. Someone had shared data about Mumbai's data centers - how they consume as much electricity as thousands of households, how diesel generators near slum areas pump out toxic fumes. The n...

Anjali

Ai Product Development & Strategy Specialist

Logisoft Tech

Silent Cities: The Data of a Disappearing Sparrow

What does absence sound like? For me, it is the fading chatter of the house sparrow. As our cities grow louder with the mechanical roar of progress - traffic, construction, and digital white noise; they are simultaneously falling biologically silent...

VISHAL

Beautifully Useless Data

Beautifully Useless Data is a talk about reclaiming curiosity in data visualization. Most of us who work in data visualization operate in high-stakes environments. We document crime to guide intervention. We track climate indicators to influence poli...

Mrinal

Senior UI/UX Design Consultant

Vida by Hero MotoCorp

How I Built a Dashboard I Didn’t Know How to Build (With AI)

This talk is about my experience as a journalist trying to build an interactive data dashboard without having a coding or developer background. In journalism, we often work with datasets, charts, and visual explainers. But when it comes to creating ...

Vijay

Data Journalist

IndiaSpend

Dialogues Visualizations for Community

SurakshaLens: Building People-First Climate Data to Protect Communities

This group discussion explores what it truly takes to build a people-first data platform designed to protect communities at the intersection of climate risk and exploitation. Using SurakshaLens as a case study, the session will unpack how data can mo...

Ntasha

Founder

South Asian Institute of Crime and Justice Studies

Dialogues Visualizations as Craft

The Curator's Dilemma: When Making Is Easy, Choosing Is the Craft

My team creates 9 variations of a chart in 15 minutes -- all defensible, none wrong. My afternoon is spent staring at them, trying to figure out which one is actually good. After decades of building data viz - Excel, PowerPoint, D3 - the making ...

Anand

LLM Psychologist

Straive

A date with data

What if we stopped treating datasets like spreadsheets to be cleaned and instead approached them like conversations waiting to unfold? A Date with Data is a hands-on workshop about learning how to interrogate, investigate, and meaningfully explore ...

Prasanta Kumar

Data Visualisation Developer

Reuters

From tables to maps: Visualising geographic data using DataWrapper

While making quick charts using a spreadsheet tool might be easy, making maps with geographic data usually requires GIS skills. This workshop will demonstrate how to make quantitative data maps quickly without any special GIS or design skills – be it...

Prasanta Kumar

Data Visualisation Developer

Reuters

information absurdification

absurd, ridiculous, humourous things can instigate thought and provoke discusion — because they surprise people, challenge their ideas, and help them think differently. in this workshop, we will make absurd things about topics we care about, so tha...

shobhan

Vanishing Wings: A Textile Timeline of Insect Decline

Vanishing Wings is an immersive, walk-through textile installation that visualizes the historical decline of insect populations and reflects on its consequences for human life. Visitors move through layered fabric walls representing a temporal journe...

Meghana

Professor, Design Educator, Textile Crafter

Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology

Fading Out to Exhibition

“Fading Out” is a tangible data visualization that translates the IUCN Red List decline into physical disappearance. Visitors watch species fade over minutes. Data drives material loss. It asks what extinction feels like. Rooted in the biodiversity c...

Aswanth

Student

National Institute of Design, Bangalore

Dialogues Visualizations for Community

Bleeding between the lines

Most of us learn how to manage periods before we learn how to understand them. While menstruation is discussed more openly now, the conversation often stays “safe”, relying on clean awareness campaigns and brand-friendly metaphors that avoid the real...

Drishti

Visual Communication Designer

14 Trees

Helping Indian Scientists Create Research Visuals Easily

Helping Indian Scientists Create Research Visuals Easily Problem Scientists and engineers in India often struggle to create visuals for their research papers that clearly communicate their ideas. One major reason is that most design and illustration ...

Rafeeque

Founder, Scidart.com

Scidart Academy

Being digital watchdogs: Using court, police and media to keep track of laws

Ever wondered what happens to corruption cases against politicians? Or, perhaps, wondering if your local police station is effective? Or, maybe if all those election promises of cracking down on drugs, land/sand/alcohol mafia, and post-election actio...

Mohit

Independent Journalist

Independent journalist

What's your mother tongue(s)?

“What is your mother tongue?” is a question I have never been able to answer simply. This project visualises my family tree through language, mapping how English, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu, and Kannada circulate across three generations of my maternal a...

Apurva

Choosing Right Metrics: Designing soccer visualisations that matter

Football clubs today operate in an era of data abundance. From event data to high-resolution tracking data, thousands of metrics are available for evaluating players and tactical performance. Yet more data does not automatically lead to better decisi...

Hari

Data Visualisation Specialist

Bristol Myers Squibb

In Between the living and leaving

My artistic inquiry, tentatively titled "In Between Leaving and Living," delves into the complex and multifaceted concept of home and belongingness as experienced by migrant workers from Bihar, India. This project is deeply personal, as my own life t...

Atul

Design Lead

Ascendion

Plan B/C/D/E - a guide to surviving the climate crisis

Plan B/C/D/E is an interactive theatre performance that has been performed 40+ times across India and online. Through the 60-70 piece, I take the audience through some research about climate change; climate predictions in general, then focus on Mumba...

Meghana

theatre artist

tafreehwale

Minimum Viable story

In the world of information and data visualisation, enormous care is given to accuracy, aesthetics, and technical execution. We refine visual hierarchies, optimise legibility, and ensure statistical integrity. Yet the narrative spine that determines ...

Vivek

Narrative Consultant

Kathasys

Stories, Complaints, and Confusion: Structured Analysis of Qualitative data

Last year our session focused on why qualitative data matters. The reception was quite good, and I think we piqued everyone’s curiosity, and perhaps exploration. This year our talk addresses the next question: what does it actually mean to operationa...

Yashna

Co-founder & Director

Ooloi Labs

Dialogues Visualizations at Work

When Research Meets Decisions: A Discussion About Using Qualitative Data at Work

This session is a facilitated open conversation for practitioners who work with user feedback, research, or qualitative data inside organisations. Rather than a presentation, the goal is to create a space where participants can compare real experienc...

Akshay

Co-founder & Director

Ooloi Labs

Workshop Visualizations at Work

From Quotes to Conclusions: A Hands-On Workshop in Making Sense of Qualitative Data

Our workshop follows the talk that we have proposed. It expands on the ideas we are putting forward around how teams can think about making sense of qualitative data coming in from various sources, and how one goes from disparate quotes, transcripts,...

Akshay

Co-founder and Director

Ooloi Labs

From Data to Story: Using QGIS Expressions with OSM

Being a data journalist, it’s not enough to ‘just use’ tools – You also need to come up with a story. As a reporter for a magazine, I have extensively used QGIS to report on news stories. The workshop is designed for any interested participant to get...

Pulaha

Data correspondent

Centre for Science and Environment

There Are No Clean Maps: Reconciling Incompatible Geographies

We often speak about “putting data on a map” as if geography were stable and agreed upon crisp boundaries, clear hierarchies, seamless layers. In practice, there are no clean maps. Every map is a negotiation between data sources, definitions, and vin...

Supriya

Senior Data Analyst

Epic World

Can AI Discover New Data Visualizations?

There's stuff I know AI can do. 1. Create data visualizations. I just tell it to convert a dataset into a treemap, and it does. 2. Hallucinate. That's a fancy word for "make stuff up". I prefer calling it "creativity". 3. Run forever. ...

Anand

LLM Psychologist

Straive

Dirty Talk

Dirty Talk is a research project that tries to find answers for the question "why are we so uncomfortable to talk about sex?". It tries to answer this through modules that get people to discuss, debate, and disseminate! Each session involves activiti...

Anuhya

Student

Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design, and Technology

Purpose-First Data Visualization

Looking at data visualization through a leadership and product lens not as “making charts,” but as designing clarity for decisions. Visualization works well when it is anchored in business and implementation context: what problem you’re solving, what...

Siddharth

CEO

Monsoonfish UI/UX Design Studio

eSankhyiki

eSankhyiki presents a real-world case study of how data visualization functions at scale inside a national official statistical system to support evidence-based decision-making, transparency, and broad public use. The talk focuses on the design, deve...

ROHIT

DEPUTY DIRECTOR GENERAL

MINISTRY OF STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION

Designing with Data: Visualising with D3 + Svelte

### The why Creating charts with data is often a frustrating process when using traditional design tools. It typically involves exporting data to external charting libraries, restructuring spreadsheets in Excel, and spending hours pushing pixels - on...

Schubert

Dataviz Developer

Revisual Labs

How I Turn Everyday Data into Visual Stories.

How I Turn Everyday Data into Visual Stories. This talk begins with a simple belief: we all repeat things. We take familiar routes. We postpone some tasks. We call certain people more often than others. We start routines, pause them, and return to ...

Thummala

Product/Service Designer

Samsung R&D Institute, India.

Maps for BLR Bus Stops

Our workshop 'Maps for BLR Bus Stops' is a hands-on workshop. Participants will get to use our tools (the GTFS data finder, route diagram generator, and the design system) to create maps for their own bus stop(s). Most of the work we do at Bengawalk...

Shubhra

Creative Lead

Bengawalk

Wear Thinking Hats: Visualizing Data with CogniLense

You’re in a room with people, a dashboard on the screen, and a decision to make. The numbers are the same for everyone. And yet, within minutes, you have five different interpretations, five different “obvious” next steps, and one familiar question f...

Siddharth

CEO

Monsoonfish

Storytelling with Data – Designing Persuasive Visual Narratives

Workshop Title: Storytelling with Data – Designing Persuasive Visual Narratives (3 hours) Shaurabh Anand, Gopi Sankar G This workshop explores how organisations, researchers, students, and community members can transform data analysis into persuasi...

Shaurabh

Assistant Professor

Azim Premji University

Beyond Reports, Towards Experiences

“The purpose of art is to make the stone stony.” — Shklovsky How design can transform data reports into narrative information experiences. ### What is it about? Data visualisations are quite a common part of modern journalism and storytelling —...

Prasanta Kumar

Data Visualisation Developer

Reuters

Beyond the "One-Click" Illusion: Designing Data Visualisations with the Human Edge

We live in a "one-click" illusion. Modern AI tools promise easy insights, but removing effort often removes responsibility. While AI can simulate empathy, it cannot carry the consequences of its outputs. This talk explores the hidden risks of automat...

Pratik

Senior Director, Global Product Design

Epsilon

Data Delights: Experiencing NCERT's new Data Literacy Curriculum

School education quietly but powerfully shapes what we learn – and sometimes what we may not learn. Over the past two decades, the human world has changed dramatically, but school curricula has remained the same until recently. Today, being able to r...

Shravan

Educator and Curriculum Developer

NCERT

Stop Dating Vanity Metrics - Fall in love with metrics that actually commit.

Stop Dating Vanity Metrics Fall in love with metrics that actually commit. In today’s AI-driven, dashboard-heavy workplaces, we are surrounded by numbers. Impressions rise. Followers grow. Views spike. Yet behind the applause of “good metrics,” many...

Selva

AI Consultant

Pinesphere

The Shape of Hue

The talk is about scenarios where colour is the data itself rather than an axis of variation to represent data. With a focus on ways to represent/visualize colour, its application in user studies and other scraped datasets and some basic colour theor...

Sanket

Analyst

Axtria

Waterscapes of Bengaluru

This initiative seeks to bridge the growing disconnect between people and river ecosystems, helping citizens see rivers not merely as channels of water, but as living, interconnected systems. The exhibition highlights how polluted rivers affect our f...

Madhuri

Trustee

Paani Earth Foundation

Kuch Kuch Data Hai: Bollywood, visualised

We are a film-crazy nation. Bollywood and India’s regional cinema together produce over a thousand movies a year, to entertain the world’s most populous country. Some of the easiest conversations I’ve had with strangers often start over a film or fi...

Surbhi

Data journalist, Data viz-ard

Independent

Hero No. 0 : Before heroes emerge

I spend my professional life working with stories. As a narrative consultant, I help organisations articulate who they are, what they believe, and why their messages work(or do not). Over time, this work has left me with a persistent discomfort. Almo...

Vivek

Narrative Consultant

Kathasys

Dialogues Visualizations and Tools

Is it all Good Vibes Only? The Ch(art) of Visualising Data with Vibe Coding

With large language models, coding has changed, and so has data visualisation. “The hottest new programming language is English”, says Andrej Karpathy, who coined the term vibe coding. Since 2025, interest in the term has surged globally (https://t...

Surbhi

Data journalist, Data viz-ard

Independent

Under Review

The invisible math behind a chart's aesthetics

Dataviz is often celebrated as the marriage of art and science, but in our rush to make charts "beautiful", we can end up neglecting the "science" part—the underlying mathematical syntax. This session is an interactive, quiz-led deep dive into the of...

Tanay

Data editor

Mint, HT Media

The Knowledge Gap: Mapping India’s Climate Consciousness

What does climate change feel like in the Indian mind? This installation serves as a communal mirror, contrasting nationwide survey data with scientific truths. Each display pairs Perception—the stories we tell ourselves—against Reality—the data of o...

Saumya

Founder and Creative Director

From&To

Puddle Beneath the Plate

About the Project: This tangible data installation explores the water footprint of everyday meals by representing the total freshwater consumed across the food supply chain, from cultivation and irrigation to processing and distribution. Aligned with...

Shreya

Student

National Institute of Design, Bengaluru

Unfurl a Tibetan Thangka - Immerse Yourself in the Ocean of Ancient Spiritual Knowledge

A Tibetan Thangka is a traditional intricate scroll painting on cotton or silk, featuring Buddhist deities, mandalas, or scenes from the life of HH Dalai Lama. It contains a plethora of deities symbolysing ancient and rich spiritual lineages. Visitor...

Prabhu

Solutions, Innovation and Community

gai Technologies

Carbon Block

Theme: Speculative Design, Climate Change, and Behavioural Intervention # Abstract Despite overwhelming scientific evidence of the climate crisis, a massive gap remains between public knowledge and meaningful action. This phenomenon, often driven b...

Sarwesh

New Media Designer

From Data Viz to UX: A Career Reality Check

This talk is about a career pattern in data visualization that we rarely acknowledge openly: many data viz practitioners don’t end up doing “pure” data visualization work in the industry. Instead, they drift into UX roles. This observation comes from...

Sandeep

Group Product Design Manager

Uber

Communicating Data for Clean Air Awareness

“Delhi’s air pollution is because of Punjab farmers right?” This common question assumes that we are just victims of air pollution. But a lot of activities from our daily routine are responsible for the polluted air we breathe and these often go unde...

Sai Krishna

Research Associate

Urban Emissions Info LLP

Bridging Community Signals and Strategic Priorities for Crowdfunding Open-Source Software

What is this talk about? Grant programs publish where the money went. But can we quantify if it reached the problems that mattered most? This talk shows how we visualised $1M+ in community-driven funding for open-source software: not as a list o...

Rohit

Data Researcher

Independent

The Dashboards of our Discontent

It has never been easier to build a dashboard. The tooling has exploded with drag-and-drop builders, low-code platforms, ChatGPTs this, LLMs, chart libraries for everyone and their mothers, templates for every use case and all flavors of agentic codi...

Aman

Developer

Diagram Chasing

The Anatomy of a Great Chart

If you make slight tweaks to a chart such as having a title with a takeaway, having a subtitle, adding annotations, clearly labelling years etc. it transforms it completely. Adding logos. If you highlight the things that are important in the chart,...

Siddharth

Head of Insights

Gain.pro

Building Composable Platform React Charts

Building web charts that are flexible, maintainable, and consistent is a challenge whenever visualization systems need to scale across products, teams, or entire platforms. Large-scale enterprise environments, with their diverse workflows, data requi...

Ambika

Visualization Engineer

Atlassian

Creating Hex Maps for India

My talk is about visualizing geography, India's states in particular. I want to re-introduce maps where they assign equal visual space to each state. I want people to explore how creating and using alternative map designs, they can challenge some vi...

Akshar Niranjan

Applied Data Fellow

University of Chicago

New maps for BMTC Majestic: bringing data, design and government together

What is this talk about? Recently I worked with BMTC, WRI India and Villgro at Bengawalk to redesign the 20-year-old maps at Bengaluru's most iconic bus station, Majestic. Majestic, the heart of the city's transit system, has 300+ bus routes, 36 plat...

Shubhra

Creative Lead

Bengawalk

Beyond the Surface: Gender,Economics and Data Narratives in Public Media

This talk explores the theme of how economic and financial data is visualized and narrated in public media, and how gendered realities are often concealed in the process. Common gender factors such as labor force participation, income, growth, and fi...

Ambika

Observe, Collect, Map

In this "walkshop", I will lead a group of participants on a data dérive, focused on documenting the neighbourhood from a sensory perspective. We will collectively observe and map the sensory environment around us using visual ethnography and 'score...

Priti

Information Experience Designer

Atlas of Intangibles

In Space and Place, Tuan (1977, p.18) notes that “... [a] place achieves concrete reality when our experience of it is total, that is through all the senses”. Our personal memories of a place are situated in fleeting sensory experiences – the waft ...

Priti

Information Experience Designer