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From π to Pie charts

Rasagy Sharma
November 24, 2024

From π to Pie charts

“How I discovered my love for design, data & technology.”
Short talk on the 20th anniversary of BITS Pilani Goa Campus by Rasagy Sharma for Maths & Computing course.

Rasagy Sharma

November 24, 2024
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  1. From to Short talk by Rasagy Sharma (2007A7PS086G) BITS Pilani

    Goa Campus 23 Nov, 2024 “How I discovered my love for design, data & technology.”
  2. I discovered the world of design. Current: Head of Design

    for DataLabs at Capital One. Earlier: Microsoft, Barclays, Gramener, Sundial, Mapbox, Capillary Technologies. Also: Adjunct Assistant Professor, IIT Bombay, Visiting Faculty, NID. • Creative Multi-Media (elective) by Prof. Adil Mistry • PS-1: C# to Usability testing • PS-2: PHP to Interaction Design • Software Development for Portable Devices (2011)
  3. • • • • • Maths Technology Design Graphic Design

    UI/UX Design Creative Coding Data Viz & Analytics Marketing
  4. “Mathematics expresses itself everywhere, in almost every facet of life:

    music, art, architecture, and of course, design.” — Marcus du Sautoy, British Mathematician, Author of The Number Mysteries
  5. “The greatest value of a picture is when it forces

    us to notice what we never expected to see.” — John Tukey, American mathematician and statistician (Developed Fast Fourier Transform algorithm and box plot)
  6. Map projections turn a 3D nearly spherical shape into 2D

    space. Isochrones visualize maps by time, not distance.
  7. “Most of us need to listen to the music to

    understand how beautiful it is. But often that’s how we present statistics: we just show the notes, we don’t play the music.” — Hans Rosling, Founder of Gapminder Foundation; Author of Factfulness