Rukmini S
@Rukmini
Knowledge from data for everyone. Founder, @dataforin. Book: "Whole Numbers & Half Truths" (Westland '21).
Data For India has been live for one year now. It's been a dream year, expanding our team and doing the work we dreamed of. A few quick highlights:
Thread: After more than a year of work, we have now launched dataforindia.com, a public platform that seeks to expand access to Indian data for everyone, and deepen the understanding of the country that can come from this data
It was a real honour to give the opening keynote at #VizChitra2025, India's first data visualisation conference. I spoke about the sense of optimism we have about Indian data, but also the work we're going to have to put in. My full speech is here: youtube.com/watch?v=0nHw0T…
India has the world's largest emigrant population, with over 18.5 million people of Indian origin living overseas in 2024, accounting for 6% of all international migrants globally. According to the United Nations, an international migrant is someone who has moved across an…
Tuesday PSA: The Big Shift goes out to @dataforin subscribers tomorrow morning. Every week, we look at long-term transformations in India. This week: who we really work for when we work for ourselves. Sign up (for free) at dataforindia.com
A real privilege to see what these bright and hardworking Bharat Digital fellows have worked on, and Uma ma'am's leadership in action!
Excellent and creative work done by young Bharat Digital Fellows Shanu, Veda and Ayush in @rdprgok this summer working on technology for local governance. Many thanks also to @NisarHogaya and @Rukmini.
With over 1.3 billion people, India is the most populous country in the world. However, its population growth has been gradually slowing down. There was certainly a time when India's population was growing very fast. In the three decades after Independence, India's population…
Tuesday PSA: The Big Shift goes out to subscribers tomorrow morning. Every week, we look at long-term transformations in India. This week: factories in India. Sign up (for free) at dataforindia.com
Goodbye cheques, it was nice knowing you...
Propelled by rising mobile phone and internet access, India is witnessing an exponential growth in digital payments. Just two decades ago, more than 95% of the money spent every day on major retail payments was made using cheques. However, since the introduction of the National…
🧵 Our team members recently participated at @VizChitra, India’s first data visualisation Conference in Bangalore. It was an enriching experience to share our work on using data viz to advance the understanding of India, and connecting with data visualisation practitioners from…
New on @dataforin: @akwaghmare's deep dive into India's factories - where they are, what they produce and whom they employ. Here's one of my favourite nuggets dataforindia.com/factories/
Tuesday PSA: The Big Shift goes out to subscribers tomorrow morning. Every week, we look at long-term transformations in India. This week: the share of dependents in India's population. Sign up (for free) at dataforindia.com
Over the last two decades, India has seen a big push towards financial inclusion. Having a bank account is an important first step in that journey, allowing account-holders to receive welfare benefits, save, borrow and invest. From fewer than half of Indian households having a…
New on @dataforin: an exhaustive look at women in India's manufacturing sector by @nileena_suresh. Here's my favourite insight from it dataforindia.com/women-in-manuf…
"The share of women who say that their main activity is housework is the lowest it has ever been." - standout finding from this @akwaghmare piece for us on female labour force participation
India’s female labour force participation rate (LFPR) is low compared to global standards, but has risen over the last decade. The LFPR measures the share of adult Indians who are either working or seeking work. While most Indian men report being in the labour force, the…