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2026 21
September 6
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IndiaFOSS 2026: a packed room for documentation, a lightning talk, and a busy SciPy India booth
Published:7 min readRunning the Documentation and Technical Writing devroom at IndiaFOSS 2026, giving a talk in it, and two days at the SciPy India booth.
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8 misleading graph examples: how to spot bad charts and fix them , on Deepnote blog deepnote.com Eight charts that mislead, and how to fix each one in Deepnote.
- How to make a pie chart (in Excel and other tools) , on Deepnote blog deepnote.com
Pie charts in Excel, Google Sheets, Python, PowerPoint and Deepnote, plus labeling percentages and picking a variant.
- The 15 best data visualization tools in 2026 (free and paid) , on Deepnote blog deepnote.com
Fifteen tools compared on workflow, collaboration, AI support and pricing.
- Dot plots explained: when to use one, examples, and how to make one , on Deepnote blog deepnote.com
Traditional and Cleveland dot plots, and when to reach for one over another chart.
- Box plots explained: when to use one, examples, and how to make one , on Deepnote blog deepnote.com
How to read a box plot's median, quartiles, and outliers, and compare distributions with worked examples.
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August 4
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- JupyterLab vs Deepnote: a side-by-side comparison for 2026 , on Deepnote blog deepnote.com
Where the two notebooks overlap and where they differ, side by side.
- Hex vs Deepnote: a side-by-side comparison , on Deepnote blog deepnote.com
Hex and Deepnote both combine code, data, AI, and outputs in a browser-based workspace, but they're built for different kinds of work.
- Histogram vs bar graph: differences, examples, and when to use each , on Deepnote blog deepnote.com
The same dataset as a histogram and as a bar graph, and how grouping changes the question each one answers.
- 31 types of graphs and charts (and when to use each) , on Deepnote blog deepnote.com
An interactive example for each one, and how to pick the right chart for your data.
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May 2
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Co-organizing and speaking at the Chennai Kafka meetup
Published:4 min readOn co-organizing the Chennai Apache Kafka meetup, speaking about CocoIndex's Kafka connector, and a Flink session the room didn't want to end.
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A day at ChennaiFOSS 2026
Published:5 min readA day at ChennaiFOSS 2026 at IIT Madras, spent between the SciPy India booth, a few sessions, and a lot of conversations.
April 5
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Reflections on GitHub Constellation 2026
Published:5 min readNotes from GitHub Constellation Bangalore: keynote takeaways, hallway conversations, GitHub's AI-era scale, and...
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My experience at Open Source Day 2026
Published:7 min readWhat building around marimo taught me about devtool communities, and why the best community work usually starts with helping users well.
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Technical writing and community at Wikimedia DSDP
Published:8 min readThree days with Wikimedia contributors in Delhi, a workshop on technical writing, and some thoughts on open knowledge.
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- Jupyter AI: how to use AI tools in your notebooks , on Deepnote blog deepnote.com
Trying the chat UI and the %%ai magic in a real notebook, to see where Jupyter AI helps and where it stalls.
- Top AI data visualization tools in 2026 , on Deepnote blog deepnote.com
The same small churn benchmark run across AI data visualization tools, to see how hard each one makes it to ship a wrong answer.
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March 3
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A weekend at PyConf Hyderabad 2026
Published:6 min readRepresenting SciPy India at PyConf Hyderabad 2026; community booths, familiar faces, and a few reminders about why in-person OSS spaces still matter.
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- Tracking the ripple effect: how adverse drug events move pharma markets , on Deepnote blog deepnote.com
An event study mapping adverse drug event signals to pharma stock moves, using price data and FAERS counts.
- JupyterHub vs JupyterLab: they solve different problems , on Deepnote blog deepnote.com
JupyterLab is the interface you work in. JupyterHub manages access for multiple users.
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January 1
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Déjà vu: Recompute only what's necessary
Published:3 min readOn finding myself drawn to tools that embrace incremental computation.
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November 1
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Joining Deepnote as a Technical Writer
Published:2 min readCareer update: I'm joining Deepnote as a Technical Writer :)
Ongoing elsewhere
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Community write-ups on the SciPy India blog , on SciPy India scipy.in - Deepnote alternatives series , on Deepnote deepnote.com
A page for each tool people switch to Deepnote from, like Jupyter, Colab, Hex and marimo.
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