Frontend and Dataviz Developer @RevisualLabs
Goa, India
Joined January 2021
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🗺️ @Da_Pacific explored map-making with Datawrapper, turning tables into publish-ready maps without GIS software.
💻 @schubertda1 showed how D3.js can bring bespoke visualisation ideas to life through code.
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🔶 Ever had a chart idea you couldn't find a template for?
At #VizChitra2026, @schubertda1 of @RevisualLabs led Draw with Data: Custom Dataviz Using D3, a workshop that taught how to create bespoke charts that go beyond standard templates.
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Last week, team RVL headed to Bangalore for #vizchitra2026, India's data visualisation conference!
Returning for the second year in a row as co-organisers, attendees, volunteers, and proud silver sponsors, we loved reconnecting with old friends and trading ideas with fellow data viz-ards in India.
We engaged with the community at our stall by:
Handing out goodies like colour scale bookmarks, tip sheets, punny stickers, and other keepsakes.
Showcasing our work: We made a @chezVoila inspired flip-board, showcasing the before-and-afters of charts we've made!
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#VizChitra2026 Workshop
🔷 Draw with Data: Custom DataViz Using D3
Curious about bespoke dataviz, but don't want a full web dev course?
Learn to go beyond chart plugins with @schubertda1
Register: tickets.vizchitra.com
📅 3 July, 10am - 1pm
📍 Underline Center, Bangalore
ALT VizChitra 2026 Workshop. Draw with Data: Custom DataViz Using D3 with Schubert de Abreu, data visualisation developer at Revisual Labs. 3rd July, 10am - 1pm, Underline Center, Bangalore
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The Census of India has never been very reader-friendly. But in 1970s, a series of events led to government putting effort into publishing very interesting, truly "Indian" #dataviz for the average reader. But why?
Our new data story, with an explorer and some comics! More ⬇️
If you’re an early-career dev looking to break into the dataviz industry and build interactive work on the web, reach out!
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@rhea_prad and I have been tracking our @NYTGames (Wordle, Connections and the Mini) for the past two years. I decided to analyze our 4,200 gameplays with #rstats to determine a winner and made some festively embroidered charts with ggplot. Have a read (link in reply).
Last week I completed work on a visual explainer which had been sitting on my shelf for ages. This piece on Benford's Law talks about how numbers in the real world, from finance to publications aren't quite as random as they seem on the surface.
🔗Link below
ALT A grid of bar charts with each showing the distribution of leading digits for their respective datasets. This grid demonstrates Benford's Law which says that when pulling the numbers from real world data, we often find that numbers with smaller leading digits are far more common.
Benford's Law does say that smaller digits are more common, but what's more interesting is the fact that the distribution it proposes stays almost exactly the same across datasets!
ALT Grid of Our World in Data datasets with their leading digits depicted as bar charts. This grid demonstrates Benford's Law showing that smaller leading digits are far more common.
Which is the same distribution which keeps popping up when I dive into dozens of @OurWorldInData datasets, catalogue numbers in National Geographic magazines and more in the article!
benfords-law-explainer.netli…
ALT A test for Benford's Law where the author flips through a National Geographic Magazine and logs all the numbers to check the distribution of the leading digits to confirm whether they obey Benford's Law or not. Spoiler alert: they do - and surprisingly well at that!
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I did a few dork searches to find instances of AI-generated text in government documents. Not that they were better before, but since we have an incentive structure of length equal to rigor right from schools means that institutional generation of slop was inevitable.
🔗 below.
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Today @Vonterinon and I are launching CBFC Watch, an archive of over 1 lakh censorship records for ~18k movies released in India since 2017. For the first time, you can search for any movie and see how they were modified before release.
🔗cbfc.watch
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Come work with @schubertda1 and me @RevisualLabs! We're looking for a remote freelance frontend dev to help us on an upcoming project, available from 1st August on a part-time basis.
Experience in Svelte or a strong background in React/Angular and D3.js required. More ⬇️
Back from VizChitra and admittedly been slow to share the progress on the personal site - but we now have a navbar! (and a tiny sneak peak of the WIP hero section + illustrations)
Had a blast meeting all my favourite online rectangles at @VizChitra
Team RVL met at Bangalore to attend @VizChitra (India’s first dataviz conference) and to celebrate our studio’s 2-year birthday + IIB Awards win! We spent the weekend with our full-time team and almost every contractor who has worked with us over the years 🎂
I've been meaning to work more in public, posting snippets of my progress on side projects and things I find interesting along the way.
Hopefully having things out in the open might help others pick and steal their favourite bits or spark some new ideas.
The current project I'm working on is revamping my personal site - my corner of the internet where I plan to share my thoughts, niche interests and what I'm currently working on - which I will soon dread updating.
With the most recent addition being the site footer:
ALT Website with a navbar designed to look like a stacked bar chart showing the amount of content in each section of the page.