Diagram Chasing

Diagram Chasing

A blog of data-driven works of various interests, shared once in a while

Ideas log

We keep our ideas and what we might be working on open. If any of these vague descriptions (even if seemingly abandoned) interests you, come help us work on it if you want.

Date Pitch Originator Description Data ideas Status
15-5-2024 historical economic growth by district. Vonter
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will be interesting to see economic growth disparities between urban and rural areas, and south vs north india within karnataka also, how much blr's dominance has increased over time

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15-5-2024 india tree map Aman
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Interactive map of trees around you and how your neighbourhood compares to others in your city in greenery

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https://sustainability.fb.com/blog/2024/04/22/using-artificial-intelligence-to-map-the-earths-forests/

WIP
16-5-2024 disaster hazard map Vonter
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https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ this but for asteroids, volcanos and earthquakes inspired by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicxulub_crater#Effects

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17-5-2024 who decided the winner VA
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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/01/us/elections/nine-percent-of-america-selected-trump-and-clinton.html

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07-05-2024 where does my food come from Vonter
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mapping the chances of where the ingredients used to make my food come from.

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https://www.icrisat.org/

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07-05-2024 flights to and from Vonter
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city-wise pairs of flights, how many people travelled and so on. If you're going from X to Y, what is the chances of a delay?

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https://www.dgca.gov.in/digigov-portal/?page=259/4184/servicename

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09-06-2024 Displacement by metro Aman
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I'd like to make a small graphic of the metro lines and the land before/after and who it has moved

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https://citizenmatters.in/81-infrastructure-roads-and-transport-cmh-road-no-to-metro-clash-of-local-economies/

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10-01-2024 Knowledge graph of Bengaluru Aman
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A network graph of blr with named entities would be fun. I'd still want to see it. Like a who's who or what's what based on topic for a city. Especially something like blr which is constantly in the news.

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NULL

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10-12-2024 Wildfire and species vulnerability Vonter
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They have visualization of their own, but might be interesting to show things differently or overlayed with other information (local species diversity/vulnerability?)

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https://gwis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/applications/data-and-services, https://livingplanetindex.org/data_portal

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10-18-2024 What songs/artists endure the longest in each city? Vonter
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in which region did gangnam style continue to be popular for the longest time? Which city has the biggest Backstreet Boys fanbase?

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https://doc.api.soundcharts.com/api/v2/doc/ , https://charts.youtube.com/location/0x3bae1670c9b44e6d%3A0xf8dfc3e8517e4fe0, https://kworb.net/ww/archive/

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10-20-2024 Trackguessr Vonter
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Guess the song based on it's top countries today

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12-2-2024 How do Indians spend their time Aman
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Map/live "clock" of activity across the country based on national time use survey. At any given time, what are people doing? disaggregate/aggregate based on interesting variables.

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National Time Use Survey 2019 https://data.opencity.in/dataset/national-time-use-survey-2019

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12-22-2024 What kind of NYT Mini clues confuse specific countries? Aman
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Sometimes I find myself googling slightly difficult or US-specific crossword clues. Are there countries more confused than others?

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Google Trends, NYT Mini Clues

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12-22-2024 Straightening the highways Aman
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Where and why are highways losing their winding roads? Who gets affected when you cut straight through the land?

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12-22-2024 Visualizing the New York of Robert Moses Aman
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The first chapter of 'The Power Broker' is a fascinating, almost cinematic, summary of the entire book. I'd like to visualize the chapter in an interactive story form.

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The Power Broker, Old maps, photographs

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01-17-2025 Missed Connections Aman
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Where are people most likely to miss connections (bus/metro) in BLR? Do slight schedule adjustments make a difference?

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BLR GTFS

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10-10-2024 Housing along Hurricane Milton Vonter
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a viz of new neighbourhoods that came up in the past decade, which are on the hurricane's projected path of destruction

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US Census, NOAA

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10-20-2024 Same name candidates Aman
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explore smaller/independent candidates with similar names to those contesting for the main parties (which are probably just put up to confuse people) for every election.

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ECI (probably?)

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10-22-2024 Bangalore Flood Risk Map VA
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A detailed map of Bangalore and surrounding areas illustrating their risk of flooding by looking at drainage and catchment areas

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Hydrology Analysis

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