Bharath M. Palavalli
bharathpalavalli.com
Bharath M. Palavalli
@bharathpalavalli.com
We’ll be discussing all things data! Come join us on Saturday, 15th November in Bangalore at the Tech4Good Community Summit as I discuss a few of these questions with Tanya Kak.

More details at www.linkedin.com/posts/bharat...

#data #interoperability #research #public
November 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Creating large and complex projects in #Rstats can get messy really quick. Once I've learned the advantages of using the {targets} package to orchastrate my code I never looked back. #tipoftheday Use targets! books.ropensci.org/targets/ Kudos to @ropensci.org team behind this !
October 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I wish this was #satire
October 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM
October 15, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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{gtfs2emis} - Estimate public transport emissions from GTFS data: ipeagit.github.io/gtfs2emis/

#RStats bookmark from the old twitter
September 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Had my first #FT8 contact last week but finally got around to writing about it at ham.bharathpalavalli.com/posts/202509....

It was with a random wire antenna that was just thrust out with a fishing pole from my balcony!

#amateurradio #hamradio #homebrew
September 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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#Accessibility modelers using #r5r #rstats, check this GUI for playing around with R5 network. If many people find it useful, I would get signal if I should invest any more free time into it. github.com/e-kotov/r5rgui (uses #mapgl by @kylewalker.bsky.social and #r5r by @urbandemog.bsky.social et al)
September 3, 2025 at 11:12 AM
What do you do when your keychain breaks?

#woodworking #whittling
September 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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So much think-piecing and op-ed'ing about data centers. I wish folks knew that some scholars have been studying these things — as real estate, as geopolitical battlegrounds, as ecological disasters — for a decade+. Mél Hogan, Alix Johnson, Ingrid Burrington, Jen Holt, Patrick Brodie, et al
The making of critical data center studies - Dustin Edwards, Zane Griffin Talley Cooper, Mél Hogan, 2025
In this article, the authors demonstrate how the data center has become a key site, object, and metaphor for interdisciplinary scholarship of the internet. Whil...
journals.sagepub.com
August 24, 2025 at 2:18 AM
August 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Came home to a wonderful little package! This #QRPLabs #QMX has a nice build quality. Now onto making the PTT mic and an EFHW for it to make a nice #QRP backpack.

#amateurradio #hamradio
August 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Why do people feel worse even as their countries grow richer?

In an age of populism, we need to ask what policy misses when it focuses solely on growth.

A thread on our paper: Is There an Underside to Economic Growth? 👇
📄 documents.worldbank.org/en/publicati...
Is There an Underside to Economic Growth ? A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Malaysia
This paper sheds light on a Malaysian paradox that may have lessons for the rest of the world. Despite high gross domestic product growth with concurrent sharp reductions .
documents.worldbank.org
July 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
When you come home to a good cup of Darjeeling…

#darjeelingtea #tea #traveldiaries
July 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Sigh, my terrible luck while travelling continues! One more trip and one more screeching, high-energy child right next to me. #travelluck #screechingchild
July 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I finally found a great copy of Fazlul Hasan’s Bangalore through the Centuries; I’ve been looking for a good copy for a while now.

The joy of having a good bookstore like Bookworm!

My list of #booksonbangalore is almost complete: bharathpalavalli.com/booksonbanga...

#books #booksoncities
July 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The hum. A humming shape deep as echo has worn a hole in the echoed sea,

a grooved watermark, a casing like the sphere in air a flower carves.

The opening blooms
under a soft, dark blanket of sleep.

- Meredith Cole
The Children Dream of a Whale Set Free

#watercolour #whale #painting #watercolor
May 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
April 20, 2025 at 7:35 AM
The mirror on the wall
doesn’t show any of the faces
that used to pass
in front of it.

- Dunya Mikhail

#crows #painting #watercolour
April 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The shy Slender-billed scimitar babbler was in a generous mood and gave us a fair sighting!

#fediart #watercolour #birding
March 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Does anyone know the history behind this #redbull packaging in #bhutan?
March 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Is everyone huffing paint?

Crypto guy claims to have built an LLM-based tool to detect errors in research papers; funded using its own cryptocurrency; will let coin holders choose what papers to go after; it's unvetted and a total black box—and Nature reports it as if it's a new protein structure.
AI tools are spotting errors in research papers: inside a growing movement
Study that hyped the toxicity of black plastic utensils inspires projects that use large language models to check papers.
www.nature.com
March 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Brewed and steeped…

#tea #teatasting #watercolour #art
March 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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A quick shout to this 2022 post by @djnavarro on How to visualise a billion rows of data in R with Apache Arrow blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2022-0... #rstats #arrow
February 1, 2024 at 10:30 PM
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Piet Mondrian "Row of trees in swampy landscape near Duivendrecht" (1905-06)
March 3, 2025 at 1:39 AM