Q&A with an Expert featuring Shri Khalpada

A conversation with Shri Khalpada, a full-stack software engineer specializing in interactive data visualizations. He began his career in big tech and is currently the first full-time hire at Cleaning The Glass. In this presentation and Q&A, Shri discusses his personal journey in data viz and finding his niche. He discusses the behind-the-scenes of his creative projects on PerThirtySix such as The Communal Plot, Visual Wordle Solver, and Our Reddening Globe. His presentation concludes with insight about his tech stack, resources for doing these kind of projects, and advice for finding your creative process. Some of the topics covered in the Q&A include how his thinking about data viz has shifted over time, approaches for learning new coding languages, and of course, his starting wordle word. Links to Shri's projects mentioned in his presentation: https://perthirtysix.com/communal-plot-daily-poll https://perthirtysix.com/tool/wordle-solver https://perthirtysix.com/tool/climate-change-globe https://perthirtysix.com/visualizing-data-is-an-art Check out Shri's Bluesky to keep up with his future projects: https://bsky.app/profile/shrikhalpada.dev ___ This event is hosted by the Early Career Committee at the Data Visualization Society. DVS was founded to serve as a professional home for those working across the discipline. Our mission is to connect data visualizers across tech stacks, subject areas, and experience. Advance your skills and grow your network by joining our community: https://www.datavisualizationsociety.org/