Why subscribe?

Every week, I bring to you one graphic visualisation (mostly public images from the mainstream media) to help you understand how to use visualisations to tell stories.

Through the years, as I’ve helped businesses make sense of their data, or made sense of someone else’s data for my newspaper writing, I’ve been very particular about the way information is presented, and visualised.

I’ve always believed that presenting data in the right manner can deliver insights in novel ways, and a lot of my consulting experience has borne this out. 

In the media, some visualisations are spectacular. Some could have been better. Some are downright atrocious. My job every week is to bring one instructive image, and explain what it does right, and what might have been done better.

About Me

My name is Karthik Shashidhar. I’m 37 years old and I live in Bangalore, India.

For 8-9 years now, I’ve been helping companies make sense of their data - in terms of using it to solve their own strategic business problems, enhance their product offerings, discover ways to monetise their data and launch new lines of business. 

Along the way, I’ve written a book on market design, written columns for Mint and Hindustan Times, taught at IIM Bangalore and done some policy research for Takshashila. To know more about me, you can follow me on Twitter, or subscribe to my blog (over 2500 posts in over 15 years), or just check me out on LinkedIn

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I'm a quant and business strategy consultant based in Bangalore, India.