Medium • 8th September 2024

EU’s Plastic Waste Exports to Developing World See First Increase in Nearly a Decade

Using R, I imported, cleaned, analysed, and visualised Eurostat’s latest trade waste data to create this short visual story. The report highlights how the European Union's plastic waste exports to lower-income countries significantly increased for the first time in eight years.

Medium • 14th May 2024

How Adani-led NDTV Covered India’s Political Leaders During Elections

I automated the process of scraping video titles from NDTV’s election coverage page using R. It helped gather data from multiple pages, enabling an analysis of how the news network—recently acquired by billionaire Gautam Adani, who is known to be close to Prime Minister Narendra Modi—covered the elections.

Medium • 19th January 2024

Shift in workforce dynamic behind UK’s declining union membership

I interviewed experts to explore how shifts in the workforce have significantly contributed to the decline in trade union membership in the UK. Using FT's Visual Vocabulary as a guide, I used Datawrapper to create graphics from multiple datasets to illustrate the story.

Los Angeles Times • 11th July 2022

New tenants feel the rent inflation pinch

Amid criticism of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for underestimating inflation for renters, I obtained exclusive official data for the L.A. Times, revealing how annual rental costs for new tenants surged in 2022. BLS has now started regularly releasing this data.

Business Standard • 14th November 2019

Consumer spending sees first fall in 4 decades on weak rural demand

After receiving a suppressed official report from a whistleblower, I used my data skills to calculate changes in India's consumer spending by applying an inflation deflator, revealing the worsening economy. Following my report, the government junked the data.

Business Standard • 31st January 2019

Unemployment rate at four-decade high of 6.1% in 2017-18

Using my investigative skills, I sourced data suppressed by the Indian government, revealing that India's unemployment rate reached a 45-year high in 2018. I then wrote a series of stories based on this data, incorporating my own calculations to analyse the trends.

Business Standard • 1st February 2020

Business Standard's budget coverage of 2020

As a member of the data team at Business Standard, I contributed to planning, creating, and visualising the 2020 budget edition. We chose economic slowdown as the central theme for our graphics, preparing the data stories days ahead of the budget speech.

Business Standard • 1st August 2013

Business Standard's data reporter

Beginning my career as a data reporter at Business Standard in 2013, I contributed to the newspaper's special coverage and consistently wrote data stories for the economy section.