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Life as a series of bets

Brick by brick, we're bootstrapping our way towards an Information Products R&D Lab. Every 1-2 years, we make one big bet on a new approach or a problem. If the bet works, we hive it off and then restart. Often we make the bet with a larger partner that has funds, domain knowledge and access to market.

Bet 1 (Sep13 — Jun14)

While India has many creative UI-heavy design studios, there are not enough who are attempting to mix analytics and design. Hence, the first bet was — can we bootstrap an Information Design Studio from India?

Bet 2 (Jul14 — Apr15)

Next, we wanted to reduce cost yet increase reliability. Hence, the next bet was — can we invest in break information design into building blocks (like Lego)? During this period, we built PykQuery.js, PykCharts.js and Rumi Data Engine (GitHub for Data).

Standard Dashboards
0.28 min
Responsible Biz 2016
Oxfam India
Feb 22, 2016
Calculators
0.27 min
Lead scoring with Machine Learning
Wise.io
Dec 22, 2019
Standard Dashboards
0.0833333333333 min
IVRS Dashboard
Akshara Foundation
May 23, 2014
Calculators
1.3 min
Microsite for startups to rent space in NY city
JLL
Dec 22, 2019
Presentation Aids
1.15 min
I’ve got 60 seconds to get attention of policy makers
Pykih
Oct 22, 2014
Custom Visualizations
0.0833333333333 min
Showcase portfolio of projects on map
UNDP India
Jan 22, 2017
Storytelling Tools
0.38 min
Debias perceptions
huffingtonpost.in
Nov 22, 2016
Calculators
0.0833333333333 min
Book skiing based on weather
Snow.com
Dec 22, 2019
Data-driven Sites
0.0833333333333 min
Create a trip advisor like tool for hospital visits
ICICI Lombard
Dec 22, 2019
Custom Visualizations
2 min
Study changes to the Constitution of India within minutes
thehindu.com
Jun 05, 2015
Visual Essays
0.88 min
Responsible Biz 2017 (Explain)
Oxfam India
Feb 14, 2017
Custom Visualizations
0.13 min
Responsible Biz 2017 (Explore)
Oxfam India
Feb 14, 2017
Data-driven Sites
0.0833333333333 min
Keep stakeholders updated with automated reported
Europeana.eu
Sep 23, 2015
Presentation Aids
0.0833333333333 min
SPADE newsroom
ICFJ.org
Dec 23, 2019

Bet 3 (May15 — Apr16)

Can visual analytics on TimesSeries data be brought to business managers at 1/10th the cost? (for FusionCharts.com)

Bet 4 (May16 — Dec17)

Can visual analytics be brought to SMEs at 1/10th the cost?

Bet 5 (Sep15 — Feb17)

Can visual analytics be brought to Doctors for every day decisions (with Pulse Infoframe)?

Visual Analytics
1 min
Business Intelligence Tool
Pulse Infoframe
Dec 23, 2019

Bet 6 (Mar17 — Jul18)

Can newsrooms launch single topic sites in a sustainable way (with Washington DC based International Center for Journalists)?

[Update: September 2018] After completion of this engagement, ICFJ Knight Fellow Nasr ul Hadi and our co-founder Ritvvij Parrikh co-founded PROTO. With this formation, we relocated to New Delhi and majority of our team moved to PROTO. Now, pykih restarts for the 5th time.

Storytelling Tools
0.85 min
Dotmat: A pie chart that tells stories
ICFJ.org
Mar 17, 2017
Storytelling Tools
0.25 min
[Concept] Compare cost of living
Pykih
Dec 22, 2017

What next?

Visual Analytics
6 min
Are community health workers being allocated efficiently?
Operation Asha
Dec 24, 2019
Custom Visualizations
2 min
[Concept] Study changes to the Constitution of India within minutes — v2
Pykih
Dec 24, 2019