Indian Data Visualisation Folks

A tiered list (Established, Notable and Emerging) of data visualisation professionals across domains from India

Business & Strategy

Turning data into business decisions

Established

  • Anand S — Straive — CEO, data storytelling pioneer
  • Sameer Dhanrajani — Fractal — Analytics & AI strategy
  • Piyanka Jain — Aryng — Visual decision frameworks
  • Srikanth Velamakanni — Fractal — Global analytics scale

Notable

  • Sundeep Reddy Mallu — Gramener? — ESG & sustainability analytics
  • Prashanth Southekal — DBP Institute — Data monetization
  • Sumeet Moghe — Thoughtworks — Delivery system visuals

Emerging / Cross-domain

  • Karthik Shashidhar — Independent — Metrics & sports governance
  • Jaspreet Bindra — Tech Whisperer — AI ethics frameworks

AI & Machine Learning

Making AI interpretable

Established

  • Balaraman Ravindran — IIT Madras — Explainable RL
  • Manish Gupta — Google Research — Knowledge graphs
  • Ramprakash Ramamoorthy — Zoho — LLM/UI interfaces

Notable

  • Sudalai Rajkumar (SRK) — H2O.ai — Visual EDA expert
  • Vineeth Balasubramaniam — IIT Hyderabad — Explainable AI (XAI)
  • Partha Talukdar — Google Research — Graph-based learning

Emerging

  • Aakanksha Chowdhery — Google DeepMind — Model behavior visuals

Design & Interactivity

Beautiful, exploratory visuals

Established

  • Ashris Choudhury — India in Pixels — Cultural motion graphics
  • Gurman Bhatia — Revisual Labs — Interactive news design
  • Rasagy Sharma — Independent — Maps & typography
  • Vikram Nayak — ChartBoss — Business chart UX

Notable

  • Shreya Suri — Independent — Long-form visual stories
  • Kanika Gupta — Independent — Civic storytelling
  • Tushar Arora — Google — Observability UX

Emerging

  • Puru Shinde — Independent — 3D/WebGL visualization

Journalism & Public Data

Evidence-based storytelling

Established

  • Rukmini S — Data for India — Survey storytelling
  • Pratap Vardhan — Stats of India — Public dataset viz
  • IndiaSpend Team — Public interest graphics
  • How India Lives Team — Demographic tools

Notable

  • Samarth Bansal — Independent — Data-led investigations
  • Nasr Ul Hadi — Newsroom data strategy
  • The Ken Data Team — Business narrative charts
  • Kabir Agarwal — Independent — Climate & agri data

Emerging

  • Anoushka Dalmia — DataLeads — Health data journalism

Civic Tech & Geospatial

Maps, infrastructure, transparency

Established

  • Raj Bhagat Palanichamy — WRI India — Satellite imagery & GIS
  • Gaurav Godhwani — CivicDataLab — Open data & fiscal viz
  • Osama Manzar — DEF — Digital inclusion mapping
  • Apar Gupta — Strategic Advisor — Policy communication

Notable

  • Chitraksh Sharma — CivicDataLab — Social justice visuals
  • Herry Gulabani — IIHS — Climate risk mapping
  • Shriya Anand — IIHS — Urban spatial research

Emerging

  • Bhanu Kamapantula — Independent — Public data scraping/viz

Enterprise Dashboards & BI

Product analytics, operations

Established

  • Sheetal Agarwal — Tableau Visionary — Enterprise analytics
  • Amit Kumar Das — Visual BI — Executive dashboards

Notable

  • Paresh Dobariya — GetOnData — BI consulting
  • Vasanth Kumar — Independent — Dashboard UI architecture

Emerging

  • Abhinav Vajpayee — Razorpay — Fintech economy metrics

Educators & Trainers

Teaching data visualization and analytics

Established

  • Amit Kapoor — Narrative Advisors — Data literacy
  • Kunal Jain — Analytics Vidhya — ML community education
  • Krish Naik — Independent — Technical ML/Viz tutorials
  • Dipanjan Sarkar — Independent — Visual NLP & ML

Notable

  • Prasann Prem — VizDiner — Tableau mentorship
  • Aditya Goenka — Independent — Power BI training

Emerging

  • Vardhini Kalyanaraman — Independent — Data literacy comics

Data Art & Experimentation

Physical visualization, generative art, installations

Established

  • Naveen Bagalkot — Srishti Manipal — Data physicalization

Notable

  • Amanat Kaur — Independent — Identity-driven data art
  • Ipsa Jain — Independent — Scientific/Bio data art
  • Ruchi Sharma — Independent — Generative code art

Emerging

  • Arjun Gopal — Independent — Generative visual systems
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