Data Narratives

Documenting urbanization and land use in Gantiganahalli through participatory mapping and GIS Analysis Pixelation of village level data The project looks at Gantiganahalli as an example village to understand the transition of urbanization and land use in peri urban areas of Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. Available sources to data often under-represent or misrepresent peri urban areas. It was observed that popular open source data platforms like Openstreetmaps had very little to no data available on Gantiganahalli....

Geo tagging and visualizing sacred groves of Kodagu. View project at: https://kodagostudio.github.io/Kodago/daivanakshe/experiment.html Introduction Sacred groves or sacred woods are groves of trees that have special religious importance within a particular culture. Sacred groves feature in various cultures throughout the world. This project attempts to document sacred groves in different villages of Kodagu and visualize the amount of area conserved in each village as a result of it. The concept of Devarakadu or the Sacred Grove is a very popular tradition in Kodagu....

Concept note This project is a tangible data visualization of the functionality of cookies saved by different websites. The project was done as a part of the student exchange program at the Glasgow School of Art under the interaction design studio. Intent The intent of the project was to create a tangible creative visualization of otherwise invisible data. I decided to go ahead with online tracking because it is generally invisible which makes a lot of consumers ignorant on what kind of data is being taken from these and for what purpose it is being used....