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Gritty Graphs - Taxidynametrics

In this week’s episode of Gritty Graphs, we won't be diving into R code. Instead, we'll explore some ideas. As the placement chairperson at IIM Sirmaur, I thought it best to discuss placement statistics. Human beings have a penchant for simplifying complex realities into singular

Gritty Graphs - The Social Media Revolution

In this week’s episode of Gritty Graphs, we will discuss the rise of social media. There’s a reason we're addressing this topic now: this week marks the 20th anniversary of Facebook. The Economist published an article this week that provides an exposé on how social media

Gritty Graphs - Pies everywhere

In this week's edition of Gritty Graphs, we're tackling a longstanding issue that surfaced with the inception of the first MBA program: the excessive and improper use of pie charts. It's important to acknowledge that pie charts are visually appealing. They resemble pizzas and

Gritty Graphs - Crafting Animated Data Narratives with R and gganimate

Remember Hans Rosling TED talk where he shows us how to use the GapMinder Data? Remember the interesting trend lines? We can do something similar with a very powerful R package called ‘gganimate’, and that’s precisely what we will be looking at in this week’s edition of Gritty

Gritty Graphs - My Tryst with India

My initial encounter with this kind of project occurred while attempting to plot brand stores on a map, a task I undertook as part of a research project that eventually became the basis of my PhD thesis. The solution I devised was quite ingenious. Let me describe the process. Using

Gritty Graphs - Narendra Modi vs Dr. Manmohan Singh

This week kicked off with a really interesting graph from the Economist titled Ten charts compare Joe Biden’s record with Donald Trump’s. You can find it here. The article compared Joe Biden's presidency with that of Donald Trump using ten charts. The charts cover inflation, economic

Gritty Graphs - The Case of Hit-and-Runs

This year started off with a catastrophe. Drivers have been striking across the country. They are protesting against a new bill passed in the Lok Sabha that makes ‘hit and run’ a much more severe crime - increasing the maximum permissible jail time from 2 years (under Section 304A) to