Ashris is a graduate from IIT Kharagpur pursuing a visiting studentship at MIT Media Lab. He doesn’t like to call himself either a techie or a designer because he thinks words start defining people rather than the other way around. He likes to have fun with tools – digital or otherwise. He will be working with Hindustan Times, How India Lives and Live Mint shortly as a Data Journalism Fellow.
A cartogram is a distorted map shows the impact of data on space. So, if a cartogram with Population were to be visualized, Uttar Pradesh would swell up because of high population and Odisha would shrink because of its low …