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Aman Bhargava

@aman.bh

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data/dev/design/map enthusiast Data viz and development @revisual.co, interned @graphics.reuters.com Bangalore, India #dataviz #rstats #svelte #maps 🔗 https://aman.bh

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Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · Dec 10

Well wow. This is my first award and I'm so happy it comes from people I've looked up to for many years, who are also a big reason I'm interested in all of this to begin with.

Have a read 🙂

The Pudding @puddingviz.bsky.social · Dec 10

WINNER!

Votes in a Name by Aman Bhargava

diagramchasing.fun/2024/votes-i...

A drawing of thousands of Indian voters from The Pudding Cup winning project Votes in a Name

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Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 3d

But I mean this space has so many options, there's no one-true-way. However, worth looking into the micropub/sub situation and see if you're interested! indieweb.org is a massive rabbithole.

Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 3d

Awesome, is this a blog system rebuild? Just in case you're interested, I've been very into the micropub IndieWeb space and last month set up getindiekit.com on my VPS (just one of many micropub options). The nice part is that that site is installable as a PWA on my phone, so blogging on the go!

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Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 5d

Legendary wayfinding.

Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 5d

This notebook + web code also means that if you got a similar CSV in the same format as our one, with some tweaks to the notebook and shapefiles you could get this page up and running for any city you want.

Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 5d

For analysis, we use #rstats and write stuff in R Markdown notebooks, which, unlike Jupyter notebooks, are plaintext and nicer (like, by a few hundred miles). Svelte for making the site, SveltePlot and D3 for making the interactive charts. All open-source: github.com/diagram-chas...

GitHub - diagram-chasing/blr-metro-ridership: Data analysis and visualization code for How Bangalore Uses the Metro

Data analysis and visualization code for How Bangalore Uses the Metro - diagram-chasing/blr-metro-ridership

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Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 5d

Our analysis notebook lives in the same repo, where we can take in the CSV, do whatever we want with it (eg: prototype charts in ggplot), and output the condensed summary as a JSON. Interactive charts can read that data, and this can be kept up to date/changed without worry.

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Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 5d

More skeuomorphic signs! HTML/CSS ftw, replicating their real-life counterparts.

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Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 5d

This is probably the first time I've managed a network graph in a way I liked. I used workers to shift the simulation off the main thread so that the page doesn't lag while it sets up. More connections were on the same line, so we take a minimum number from both types of travel.

Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 5d

Same as above, I might know what the general map looks like but not specific "routes", so this was a custom routing system for handling interchanges, inter-line commutes. A virtualized list to show all 6k possible commutes so you can click at random ones quickly.

Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 5d

Not everyone's from Bangalore or might know where a specific station is (ik I don't), so instead of just name-dropping places, I reused our metro map component in a tooltip which shows the location of that station in a popover.

Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 5d

A thread of some design/code highlights for me from our 'How Bangalore Uses the Metro' 📊 project.

1. The header sign is fully HTML/CSS. 'Go Down Take Up For Toilet' is real signage at one of our biggest stations (pic below) :P

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Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 6d

Thank you :D

Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 7d

Thanks for taking the time to look :D

Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 7d

My favorite part is this routing system I built for visualizing pairs of commute trips. All this and more in the story!

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Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 7d

Filed a Right to Information request with Bangalore's metro authority asking how many people traveled on the metro and got a file with 1.2M rows of data! We break our findings down in this story on how Bangalore uses the metro. w/
@vonter.bsky.social #dataviz

diagramchasing.fun/2025/how-ban...

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Reposted by Aman Bhargava

Jo Wood @jwolondon.bsky.social · 10d

A great post from @djnavarro.net, providing an accessible explanation of why statistics that can appear to reveal our ignorance may actually do the opposite. Makes excellent use of #datavis to provide visual support for the argument.

blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2025-0...

Some notes on probability judgement – Notes from a data witch

For the love of fuck, literally nobody thinks that 20% of the population is transgender. Please stop sharing that ridiculous YouGov statistic

blog.djnavarro.net

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Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 13d

Experiments in visualizing crowds in Bangalore's metro station. The floor plans come in SVG formats, so I solved this by managing to constrain rendering clusters within a polygon with a certain color code (platform color is always consistent) :P

Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 19d

Thanks for sharing! Weekend watch is sorted

Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 20d

I really want to be excited about this but I can't wrap my head around the concepts (even remote functions) till I see a working prod example. If you do find any good ones, please share!