Reading Time: 4 mins At 1.8 million words, the Mahabharatha is one of the largest epics – roughly 10 times the size of the Iliad and Odyssey combined. At some level, this represents “big data”. Text is generally considered […]
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Reading Time: 3 mins Continuing the design jams, we had one at Akshara’s office last weekend. The dataset we decided to pursue was the Karnataka SSLC results, which we had for the 5 years. We addressed two questions: How
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Reading Time: 4 mins This is a guest post by Rahul Gonsalves. About a week ago, Anand suggested that we spend a day some weekend working collaboratively on data visualisation. I jumped at the chance to spend a day
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Reading Time: 4 mins You don’t need specialised data visualisation software. Excel is a powerful tool in itself. For example, you could re-create and extend our When to Invest visualisations in Excel. Here’s an example: Each row indicates a
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Reading Time: 2 mins This visualisation shows the popularity of birthdays in the US between 1973 – 1999. The darkness of the colour shows the rank of how popular that birthday is. Dark colours are more popular (i.e. better