Anand's Talks

Since 2011 I've spoken about data, AI, visualization, and education at events & organizations. This YouTube playlist compiles most public talks.

Events

I speak regularly at:

• Conferences: PyCon, DataHack Summit, Fifth Elephant, VizChitra, ...
• Closed rooms: LBSNAA, Harvard Graduate School of Education, IIT Madras Academic Advisory Council, ...
• Colleges: IIT Madras, IIM Bangalore, Ashoka, NIE Mysore, NPTEL, ...
• Corporates: Deloitte, Applied Materials, AWS, EQT, Landmark Group, ...
• TEDx: MDI Gurgaon, Whitefield, KG Institutions, IIM Bangalore, NMIMS Bangalore
• PyCon: India, Singapore, Hyderabad, Indonesia, Iran, Kenya

Latest talks

• 07 Oct 2026. Looks Right. Isn’t. at ED5518: Data Visualization for Engineers, Department of Engineering Design, IIT Madras, Chennai (remote).
  AI makes pictures cheap to create but harder to trust: the reader may be another AI, and a chart, map or CAD model that looks right still needs an independent check.
  Video (73m) · Transcript · Audio (73m)
• 05 Oct 2026. Get the Job Done — and Verify It at Tools in Data Science — Sep 2026 Orientation, Remote.
  TDS treats exams as the curriculum and agents as executors: students learn to specify, orchestrate, collaborate, notice, adapt and verify while the tools keep changing.
  Video (77m) · Transcript · Audio (77m)
• 01 Oct 2026. Let's Test: Use AI Empirically at DBS Technology India — TechVerse Session 4: Agentic AI, Remote / Webex.
  Treat AI advice, models and agent workflows as hypotheses: test them on your own work, mine your logs for evidence, and make verification part of the workflow.
  Transcript · Audio (90m)
• 24 Sep 2026. If You're Too Excited, Don't Forget to Verify at International IT-BPM Summit (IIS) 2026, Function Rooms #1 & #2, 3rd Floor Pearl Wing, Okada Manila, Parañaque City, Philippines.
  AI is too weird and fast-moving to trust by intuition alone: question advice, verify with a second model, calibrate confidence, benchmark what matters, and turn surviving evidence into deterministic rules.
  Transcript · Audio (60m)
• 19 Sep 2026. Even the AI Guy Couldn't Find the Chat Button at Shree Niketan Schools — Teachers' AI Q&A, Shree Niketan Schools, Chennai / Zoom.
  Treat AI as a collaborator, not a vending machine: ask it to interview you before it builds a lesson plan, log what actually happens after you use its output, and benchmark any fix before trusting it.
  Transcript
• 11 Sep 2026. How to Build AI Products — and Prove They Work at SUTD DAI Signature Master Class · Expert Industry Series, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore.
  Build AI products around evidence, not ideas: prototype quickly, test with agents and real users, and iterate until the product proves its value.
  Day 1 · Day 2 · Day 3 · Day 4 · Day 5 · Transcript Day 1 · Transcript Day 2 · Transcript Day 3 · Transcript Day 4 · Transcript Day 5
• 03 Sep 2026. What's Left For Us at Convergence 2026, Nanyang Executive Centre, NTU, Singapore.
  As AI takes over production, human value shifts to judgment, context, and verification. The real bottleneck is the cost of checking AI's work.
  Survey · Video (15m) · Transcript · Audio (15m)
• 22 Aug 2026. You Don't Even Need to Code at IIM Alumni Singapore — AI Unboxed (4/4), Singapore / Teams.
  Coding is becoming specification and review: describe the outcome, let agents build it, and focus on whether the result works.
  Room Map · Video (129m) · Transcript · Audio (129m)
• 12 Aug 2026. Why Are You Even Sitting in This Class? at ED5518: Data Visualization for Engineers, Department of Engineering Design, IIT Madras, Chennai.
  AI can generate charts and analysis. The enduring skill is knowing what deserves to be visualized, challenged, and communicated.
  Transcript · Audio (72m)
• 10 Aug 2026. What Is This Course Really Teaching? at Tools in Data Science AMA, Remote.
  Tools change faster than curricula. The course is really about learning how to learn, automate work, and judge results rather than memorizing tools.
  Video (62m) · Transcript · Audio (62m)
• 07 Aug 2026. How Do You Manage Something Smarter Than You? at Data Hack Summit 2026, Bangalore.
  Managing AI resembles managing experts: specify work clearly, verify outputs systematically, and borrow proven practices from professions that already manage complex judgment.
  Video (58m) · Transcript · Audio (59m)
• 25 Jul 2026. Hire a Data Scientist for $100 at IIM Alumni Singapore — AI Unboxed (3/4).
  Agentic tools can perform much of a data scientist's research and analysis cheaply. The leverage comes from framing the question and checking the result.
  Video (138m) · Transcript · Audio (138m)
• 09 Jul 2026. Invite AI to the Table at AI in Education — Sivaswamy Iyer School, Mylapore, Chennai.
  Teachers should use AI as a participant in lesson planning, explanation, assessment, and reflection—not treat it as a separate subject or shortcut.
  Transcript
• 07 Jul 2026. When Data is for Agents, Not Humans at The Fifth Elephant, Microsoft Luxor, Bangalore.
  Data increasingly serves agents rather than dashboards. Structure it so agents can research, analyze, benchmark, and act reliably on behalf of people.
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• 04 Jul 2026. The Curator's Dilemma at VizChitra 2026, Bangalore.
  When AI makes charts abundant, curation—not production—becomes scarce: deciding what deserves attention, what is trustworthy, and what fits the audience.
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• 02 Jul 2026. Free Methods, Priced Judgment at PGP-BA Multivariate Data Analysis — Term 4, IIM Bangalore.
  AI makes sophisticated analytical methods cheap and accessible. The scarce skill becomes choosing the right analysis, questioning assumptions, and judging whether results matter.
  Transcript · Audio (185m)
• 20 Jun 2026. The Workshop That Made Itself at IIM Alumni Singapore — AI Unboxed (2/4).
  AI can design and execute workflows while a session is running. The useful skill is orchestrating tools, context, and verification rather than following a fixed script.
  Video (122m) · Transcript · Audio (122m)
• 16 Jun 2026. The Data Stack for an Agentic World at EQT India AI & Cyber Summit, Mumbai.
  Data stacks should be designed for agents, not dashboards: expose granular data and judgment-rich context so agents can aggregate and reason for each question.
  Transcript · Audio (59m)
• 13 Jun 2026. Data Stories with AI at Data Stories with AI workshop, Remote.
  AI can turn raw data into analyses, narratives, visuals, and alternative explanations. The craft shifts to questioning, verification, and editorial judgment.
  Story · Techniques · Video (135m) · Transcript · Audio (135m)
• 12 Jun 2026. Let AI Take Your Exams at Paradox, DOMS Room 101, IIT Madras, Chennai.
  If AI can pass an exam, the exam may be measuring the wrong thing. Assessments should reward effective AI use, verification, and real-world outcomes.
  Exam · Story · Techniques · Video (123m) · Transcript · Audio (123m)
• 11 Jun 2026. The Moving Boundary at Department of Engineering Design, IIT Madras, Chennai.
  AI keeps moving the boundary between disciplines and automation. Education should organize around problems and judgment rather than fixed departmental skill boxes.
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• 23 May 2026. What Your AI Doesn't Know About You at IIM Alumni Singapore — AI Unboxed (1/4).
  AI performance depends less on clever prompts than on context. Give models the right goals, examples, constraints, history, and tools so they can act effectively.
  Video (126m) · Transcript · Audio (119m)
• 15 May 2026. Agents are the New Software at Gramener All Hands, Remote.
  Software is shifting from fixed interfaces and workflows to agents that interpret goals and choose actions dynamically. Products should be designed around delegated outcomes.
• 30 Apr 2026. Inventing the Future of Learning at Harvard Graduate School of Education panel.
  AI breaks the old link between learning, producing work, and proving competence. Education must redesign practice and assessment around what humans should still learn and demonstrate.
  Video (92m) · Transcript · Audio (92m)
• 22 Apr 2026. The Dinner Table Theory of AI Skills at Dinner conversation / panel discussion, Edison, New Jersey, USA.
  AI makes traditional signals of competence easy to fake. Skills and assessments should focus on valuable questions, validation, accountability, and outcomes AI cannot certify for us.
• 08 Apr 2026. A Thousand Professors In Your Pocket at AI Workshop — LBSNAA, Mussoorie.
  Everyone now has access to an endlessly patient expert. The opportunity is to use AI as a tutor and thinking partner while building habits for checking its mistakes.
  Transcript · Audio (123m)
• 06 Apr 2026. Innovation as a Frontier at Straive, Remote.
  Innovation is frontier exploration, not a pipeline with a known destination. Leaders should fund cheap experiments, learn quickly, and expand what becomes possible.
  Transcript · Audio (55m)
• 26 Mar 2026. The Journalist and the Machine at #hackoftheday.
  Journalists can use AI to turn curiosity into rapid experiments and explainers. The machine accelerates research and production; editorial judgment decides what is worth publishing.
• 21 Mar 2026. The McKinsey in Your Pocket at NIE Faculty Session, Mysore.
  AI gives individuals on-demand access to research, analysis, and structured advice once reserved for expert teams. Institutions should redesign work around that new leverage.
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• 21 Mar 2026. Design in the Age of Infinite Generativity at Chennai Design Festival, Chennai.
  When AI can generate endless options, design shifts from making artifacts to choosing constraints, framing problems, and deciding what should exist.
  Transcript · Audio (10m)
• 18 Mar 2026. Verification Architecture for Autonomous AI at Straive webinar, Remote.
  Autonomous agents are useful only when their actions can be trusted. Constrain workflows, verify intermediate outputs, and design explicit checks before granting autonomy.
  Download slides · Transcript
• 18 Mar 2026. AI for IITM Office of Institutional Advancement at Office of Institutional Advancement, IIT Madras, Chennai.
  AI can automate research, outreach, personalization, and analysis in institutional advancement. The largest gains come from redesigning workflows rather than adding a chatbot.
  Use Cases · Transcript
• 18 Mar 2026. The Open-Book Exam We Never Designed at IIT Madras Academic Advisory Council, Chennai.
  When every student has a powerful AI tutor and solver, conventional closed-book assumptions collapse. Assessments must measure judgment, verification, and application instead.
  Ideas · Ideas Table · Transcript
• 15 Mar 2026. AI in SDLC — Panel Discussion at PyConf Hyderabad 2026, Hyderabad.
  AI is entering every stage of software development. Teams need to redesign the SDLC around faster generation, stronger automated checks, and human accountability.
  Video (29m) · Transcript · Audio (33m)
• 15 Mar 2026. How Students Learn Python at PyConf Hyderabad, Hyderabad.
  Students increasingly learn Python by asking AI, copying examples, and debugging interactively. Teaching should embrace these paths while preserving conceptual understanding and verification.
• 12 Mar 2026. AI Roadmap for Engineering Education at NIE AI Roadmap, Mysore.
  Engineering education should treat AI as infrastructure across the curriculum, not a standalone elective. Courses, assessment, and faculty workflows all need redesign.
  Story · Transcript
• 26 Feb 2026. Vibe Coding for Humanities at Ashoka University, Sonepat.
  Coding agents let humanities students build software without becoming programmers. The valuable skill is expressing intent clearly and critically evaluating what the machine produces.
  Video (52m) · Transcript
• 11 Feb 2026. Your Chotu Is Smarter Than You Think at Applied Materials, Bangalore.
  Modern AI is capable enough to handle surprisingly broad knowledge work. Treat it like a smart junior colleague: delegate aggressively, then review where it matters.
  Transcript · Audio (34m)
• 20 Jan 2026. Agentic AI in Action at Deloitte TXA Academy, Hyderabad.
  Agents turn LLMs from answer generators into workers that use tools, execute multi-step tasks, and recover from failures. The challenge is control and verification.
  Video (67m) · Transcript · Audio (67m)
• 11 Jan 2026. Applied Vibe Coding at NPTEL Vibe Coding Workshop, Remote.
  Vibe coding treats code as a disposable build artifact. Specify the outcome, let agents implement it, and spend your effort reviewing behavior rather than typing code.
  Video (121m) · Screencast (121m) · Transcript
• 06 Dec 2025. Mining Digital Exhaust at Fifth Elephant, Bangalore, India.
  Everyday digital traces—chats, logs, histories, submissions—contain valuable signals. LLMs make it practical to mine them for patterns, stories, and decisions.
  Blog · Video (173m) · Screencast (158m) · Transcript
• 05 Dec 2025. Data to Decisions with AI at SCDM India Conference 2025, Hyderabad, India.
  LLMs can automate expensive clinical-data work from protocol checks to anomaly detection and enrollment analysis, provided verification is designed into the workflow.
  Story · Transcript · Audio (30m)
• 03 Dec 2025. Vibe Analytics at IIM Alumni Singapore, Remote.
  Vibe analysis lets AI handle code and analytical mechanics while you focus on useful questions, surprising insights, verification, and what action follows.
  Story · Transcript · Audio (107m)
• 15 Nov 2025. Applied Vibe Coding at IIT Madras workshop, Remote.
  With coding agents, specifications become the product and code becomes cheap. Work faster by delegating implementation, testing aggressively, and optimizing for review.
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• 06 Nov 2025. LLM Psychology at Madhu Decodes, Remote.
  LLM psychology treats models as minds to probe: test how prompts, personalities, costs, and failure modes change behavior, then use evidence to choose and manage them.
  Video (39m) · Transcript
• 29 Oct 2025. LLM Data Visualization at IIT Madras — Department of Engineering Design, Chennai, India.
  LLMs can generate, interpret, and even invent visualizations. The analyst's role shifts toward asking better questions, testing novelty, and judging whether a visual is useful.
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• 23 Oct 2025. Vibe Coding at Straive, Remote.
  Vibe coding focuses on outcomes rather than code. Give agents clear requirements and enough context, let them implement, and judge delivered behavior instead of implementation details.
  Video (116m) · Transcript
• 16 Oct 2025. Vibe Analysis at Landmark Group, Remote.
  Vibe analysis delegates the analytical process to agents and focuses humans on business outcomes. Explore broadly, verify key claims, and automate successful analyses afterward.
  Video (123m) · Transcript
• 22 Sep 2025. LLM Trends at Straive, Chennai, India.
  LLMs are becoming cheaper, smarter, longer-context, more autonomous, and more multimodal at once. Each trend makes previously bespoke workflows practical to automate.
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• 18 Sep 2025. LLMs: Ask me anything at BI Worldwide AMA, Chennai, India.
  AI is becoming cheap, capable infrastructure. Use it heavily, manage it like a large team of smart interns, and build verification into the work.
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• 16 Sep 2025. Vibe Analysis at Fifth Elephant Workshop, Bangalore, India.
  Vibe analysis uses LLM agents across the full data workflow while humans stay pragmatic and skeptical: seek useful outcomes, challenge them, and publish reproducible work.
• 15 Sep 2025. LLMs: Ask me anything at GALE Partners AMA, Bangalore, India.
  AI capability is improving far faster than organizational adoption. Use it now, focus on practical outcomes, and expect culture, trust, and workflow redesign to be harder than technology.
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• 13 Sep 2025. DuckDB is the new Pandas at PyCon India 2025, Bangalore, India.
  DuckDB offers a simpler, faster analytical default than Pandas for many workloads: SQL, low memory use, remote files, rich functions, and embedded deployment.
  Video (28m)
• 21 Aug 2025. AI Coding Guide at DataHack Summit 2025, Bangalore, India.
  AI coding works best when repositories are easy for agents to understand, tasks are well-scoped, tests are fast, and humans review outcomes rather than keystrokes.
• 21 Aug 2025. RIP Data Scientists at DataHack Summit 2025, Bangalore, India.
  Almost every task a data scientist does today can be automated using LLMs. The role of data scientists must change.
  Video (50m) · Transcript
• 11 Aug 2025. Social Code Analysis at PyConSG Education Summit 2025, Singapore.
  Code can be analyzed socially, not just technically: repository behavior, collaboration patterns, and AI-based evaluation reveal how people build software and where process breaks.
  Video (15m) · Transcript
• 24 Jul 2025. Cool LLM CLI Python uses — with agents at Singapore Python User Group, Singapore.
  LLM command-line workflows can automate everyday Python tasks, then grow into agents that execute code and perform reliable calculations with tools like Pydantic AI.
• 23 Jul 2025. Solving Industrial Problems with Live Coding at AWS Innovation Day — Manufacturing, Industrial and Supply Chain, Singapore.
  LLMs can turn messy industrial and IoT data into working analyses live, collapsing the gap between domain question, code, model, and decision.
  Transcript · Audio (11m)
• 13 Jul 2025. Goodbye MBA, Hello AI at IIT Madras DoMS MBA Commencement, Chennai, India.
  AI is a foundational shift for managers: analytical and production work gets cheaper, so advantage moves to problem selection, judgment, communication, and organizational change.
  Video (66m) · Transcript
• 28 Jun 2025. Prompt-to-Plot at VizChitra 2025, Bangalore, India.
  LLMs can move from a natural-language question to data, analysis, and a finished visualization. The challenge is specifying intent and validating the resulting chart.
  Video (122m) · Transcript
• 27 Jun 2025. Data Design by Dialogue at VizChitra 2025, Bangalore, India.
  Data visualization can become a dialogue with AI: explore alternative charts, critique them, and iterate conversationally until the design communicates the right idea.
  Video (33m) · Highlights (4m) · Transcript
• 19 Jun 2025. Cool LLM CLI Python uses at PyCon Singapore 2025, Singapore.
  LLM command-line tools make Python automation conversational: inspect files, transform data, call APIs, and compose workflows by describing the result you want.
• 18 Jun 2025. Python in the Browser at PyCon Singapore 2025, Singapore.
  Modern browsers can run substantial Python locally, making interactive tools easier to distribute: many applications need no server, installation, or backend.
• 10 May 2025. Vibe Coding at SETU Thought Leader Session, Remote.
  Vibe coding lets people build software by describing what they want and iterating on results, even if they do not understand or inspect the generated code.
  Video (65m) · Transcript
• 18 Jan 2025. How to use AI to generate code? at The Hindu webinar, Remote.
  AI can generate useful software from plain-language instructions. Start with small outcomes, iterate on failures, and treat generated code as something to test rather than trust.
  Video (64m) · Transcript
• 19 Oct 2024. AI as a learning tool: What students, teachers, and parents need to know at The Hindu Edge webinar, Remote.
  AI can personalize explanation, practice, and feedback for students and teachers, but effective use depends on critical thinking, ethics, and checking what the system produces.
  Video (65m) · My video copy (64m) · Download slides · Transcript

Archives

I'll migrate old talks here over time. This YouTube Playlist has many.

• 21 Sep 2024. Finding Actor Look-alikes at PyCon India, 2024.
  Multimodal embeddings can turn faces into searchable vectors, making it possible to find visually similar actors across large image collections with surprisingly little custom machine learning.
  Video (30m) · Slides · Code
• 10 Aug 2024. LLM Psychology at TEDx MDI Gurgaon, 2024, Gurgaon.
  Language models exhibit measurable behavioral tendencies that resemble personality. Treating them like subjects of psychological experiments reveals which prompts and models work best.
  Video (18m) · Download slides · View slides
• 08 Aug 2024. Finding Actor Look-alikes at DataHack Summit 2024.
  Multimodal embeddings can turn faces into searchable vectors, making it possible to find visually similar actors across large image collections with surprisingly little custom machine learning.
  Video (49m) · Code · Chat
• 19 Sep 2019. Automating Comics at TDS KGInstitutions, 2019.
  Data and code can automate much of comic creation—from selecting scenes and dialogue to layout—turning storytelling rules into reproducible software.
  Download slides · View slides
• 19 Nov 2017. Prisoners of Birth at TEDx Whitefield, 2017.
  Where we are born strongly shapes education, income, health, and opportunity. Data visualization makes the scale of this inherited inequality visible.
  Video (17m) · My video copy (18m) · Download slides · View slides
• 28 Feb 2015. Visualizing Politics at TEDx NMIMS Bangalore, 2015.
  Political data becomes more understandable when visualized at human scale. Maps and charts can expose voting patterns, representation, and anomalies that tables conceal.
  Video (13m) · Download slides · View slides
• 20 Feb 2015. Visualizing Data Anomalies at TEDx IIM Bangalore, 2015.
  Anomalies are often the most valuable part of a dataset. Visual exploration helps distinguish errors, rare events, and patterns that conventional summaries hide.
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• 15 May 2014. NCERT NRG Workshop
  A practical workshop on using data and visualization to explore educational questions, turning raw information into patterns that are easier to understand and discuss.
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• 17 Feb 2011. Python Imaging
  Python can automate image processing tasks such as transformation, measurement, composition, and batch manipulation, making visual workflows programmable and reproducible.
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• 28 Jan 2011. Learning R at Datameet.
  An introduction to using R for data analysis: importing and manipulating data, running statistical analyses, and creating reproducible visualizations.
  Download slides · View slides · Audio (5m)

Videos from past talks

• 20 Apr 2025. Anand S: The LLM Psychologist Unveils the Hidden Psychology of AI
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• 18 Apr 2025. Visualizing LLM Hallucinations, Anand Subramanian, FOSSASIA Summit 2025
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• 30 Mar 2025. Visualizing LLM Hallucinations, Anand Subramanian, FOSSASIA Summit 2025
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• 26 Mar 2025. Finding actor look-alikes with multi-modal LLMs - Anand S
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• 14 Mar 2025. #FOSSASIA Summit #AI Track about #ArtificialIntelligence and #MachineLearning
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• 02 Feb 2025. Automate Minecraft with Python - Create a Glowstone Pyramid!
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• 09 Jan 2025. SUTD - Automating Data Visualizations using LLMs
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• 08 Jan 2025. PyCon India 2018 - Cleaning data with Python By Anand S
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• 08 Jan 2025. PyConf Hyderabad 2017 - Keynote Session 1 by S Anand
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• 08 Jan 2025. FOSSASIA 2019 - Visualizing Machine Learning by Anand S
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• 08 Jan 2025. PyCon India 2019 - Maps, Delimitation, and Gerrymandering with Python - Anand S
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• 08 Jan 2025. CIR - Interview with CEO Mr Anand S, CEO, Gramener
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• 07 Jan 2025. PyCon India 2021: Exploring Network Clusters in Python - Anand S
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• 07 Jan 2025. NASSCOM XperienceAI Virtual Summit 2021 - DeepTech Workshop 3
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• 07 Jan 2025. How Far Can I Trust A Language Mode? With Anand S
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• 07 Jan 2025. Impact of LLMs (Chatgpt, LLama2 etc) | NLP Podcast #1
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• 07 Jan 2025. PyCon India 2020 Keynote: Making apps seem faster without optimizing - Anand S
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• 07 Jan 2025. PyCon Indonesia 2020: Building deep learning models on geo spatial data to fight dengue - Anand S
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• 07 Jan 2025. Data Storytelling | The Intern Group: Keynote Speaker Series - Anand S
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• 07 Jan 2025. Data Driven Infographics - DFutura - NMIMS School of Design
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• 07 Jan 2025. IIM Ke Baad E10 IIM Gold Medalist journey to a DATA SCIENTIST: Elections, Education, & Energy Fraud
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• 07 Jan 2025. AI as a Learning Tool - What students teachers and parents need to know
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• 07 Jan 2025. LogicLooM 3.0: The Algorhythmic Chase, Marghazi 2025, IIT Madras
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• 06 Dec 2024. Transforming Complex Data into Impactful AI Solutions | Anand Subramanian | TEDxMDIGurgaon
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• 25 Sep 2024. Finding Actor Look-alikes with Multi-modal LLMs
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• 17 Sep 2024. AI for Impact Ep 2: LLMs - The Alien Tech Dilemma with Anand S. [Head of Innovation at Straive]
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• 03 Sep 2024. TEDx MDI Gurgaon, The Psychology of LLMs
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• 31 May 2024. Mastering Prompt Engineering: Insights from Data Visualization Expert S Anand
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• 04 Dec 2023. What's stopping gen ai adoption in enterprises? | Gen AI Unplugged with Anand S
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• 22 Nov 2023. What's new & better in Gen AI than other technologies? | Gen AI Unplugged with Anand S
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• 21 Nov 2023. Gen AI Unplugged with Anand S | Adoption in Enterprises
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• 12 Nov 2023. Anand S - CEO Chat - A Fun Q&A Session
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• 12 Nov 2023. S Anand: Impact of LLMs (Chatgpt, LLama2 etc) | NLP Podcast #1
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• 11 Oct 2023. Art of Storytelling with Data | Anand S, CEO @ Gramener | Leading With Data 01
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• 22 Sep 2023. How Far Can I Trust A Language Model? With Anand S
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• 15 Sep 2023. Leading With Data Ep 01 - The Art of Storytelling with Anand S
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• 13 Sep 2023. Why does Anand S. prefers Purpose Driven Learning? | Leading With Data 01
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• 01 Jul 2022. Exploring Network Clusters - Convergence 2022 Keynote at Flipkart
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• 20 May 2022. Employee Journey - In conversation with Anand S
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• 16 Feb 2022. Exploring the Movie Actor Network in Python
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• 13 Feb 2022. Programming Minecraft with WebSockets in Python
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• 02 Feb 2022. Bar Chart Race in PowerPoint - Tutorial
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• 07 Jul 2021. LIVE \_ Career in Data Science - Degree/Diploma in Programming & Data Science from IIT Madras
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• 18 Jun 2021. How to Create Bar Chart Race Without Code | Build With Gramex by Anand S | S01 E02
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• 18 Jun 2021. Building Data-Driven Infographics With Simple Web Component | Webinar by Anand s
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• 04 Jun 2021. Develop Data-Driven Infographics With Simple Web Components | Webinar by Anand S - CE0, Gramener
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• 13 May 2021. Albus Dumbledore and the Bar Chart Race | Build With Gramex by Anand S | S01 E01
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• 22 Jan 2021. Programming Minecraft with WebSockets in JavaScript
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• 23 Jul 2020. Data as Kingmaker - Kotak: Chasing Growth
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• 01 May 2020. CIR Interview with CEO- Mr Anand S, CEO, Gramener
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• 28 Mar 2020. Visualizing Machine Learning | Anand S
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• 06 Mar 2020. Engaging your audience with interactive PowerPoint decks
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• 03 Mar 2020. [WEBINAR] How to make interactive data driven PPTs | S Anand
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• 28 Nov 2019. Anand S's 18min talk at UXINDIA 2019 (https://www.ux-india.org/uxindia2019)
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• 16 Nov 2019. Maps, Delimitation, and Gerrymandering with Python - Anand S
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• 27 Oct 2019. Generating comics with JavaScript
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• 06 Sep 2019. Improve Personal Productivity EP-02 | Gramener Podcast
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• 30 Aug 2019. Improve Personal Productivity EP-01 | Gramener Podcast
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• 16 Aug 2019. How can you direct your own Data Movie?
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• 05 Jul 2019. How to Identify your Data Science Roadmap?
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• 27 Jun 2019. Webinar on Visualizing Big Data by S Anand, PGP 2001, CEO, Gramener 20170527 0432 21
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• 26 Jun 2019. Mapping India | Strata NY 2019 | Anand S
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• 10 Jun 2019. How to Build Data Science Teams that Deliver Business Value (Data Summit, Boston)
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• 08 May 2019. S. Anand & Michael Allen | Ujima Radio show | Save Species with A.I.
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• 11 Apr 2019. "What is Emotion Analytics?" Anand and Ganes discuss how AI can drive Data stories
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• 27 Mar 2019. Natural Language Generation by Anand S
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• 27 Mar 2019. Visualizing Machine Learning by Anand S
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• 08 Feb 2019. Krupanidhi Group of Institutions | Krupanidhi School of Management - Mr Anand S (CEO Gramener)
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• 26 Dec 2018. Cleaning data with Python By Anand S
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• 02 Nov 2018. Masterclass on Data Visualization
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• 12 Aug 2018. PyData 2018 - Day 2 - Hall 1
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• 22 Jul 2018. #1 India's Best Data Scientist | Anand S
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• 11 Jun 2018. Visualizing Machine Learning Models By Anand S (Gramener) at DataHack Summit 2017
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• 10 Jun 2018. S Anand & Ganes Kesari Visualising Text
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• 21 Mar 2018. Primetime Debate: 21 March 2018
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• 06 Mar 2018. Employee Attrition Analytics at IIM Bangalore
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• 24 Feb 2018. Masterclass on Data Visualization
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• 03 Feb 2018. Geo-demographic Segmentation IIM Bangalore
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• 22 Dec 2017. Visualizing machine learning algorithms in Python
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• 02 Nov 2017. Visualising Big Data- Module 6
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• 02 Oct 2017. ANAND S of Gramener talks about Automating Analysis @#Cypher2017
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• 01 Aug 2017. What explains our marks?: Anand S
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• 13 Apr 2017. Data Analytics & Market Landscape | Data Analytics Conclave | UpGrad
  Video (87m)
• 13 Apr 2017. Data Wrangling & Industry Practices | Data Wrangling Workshop | UpGrad
  Video (69m)
• 02 Dec 2016. NxtGen Leadership 2016
  Video (1m)
• 21 Apr 2016. BIG DATA PUBLIC LECTURE : Dr. Rajeev Rastogi and S Anand
  Video (111m)
• 09 Feb 2016. Top 10 Famous Scientists and Their Inventions | Top 10 data Scientists in India 2015
  Video (5m)
• 21 Sep 2015. Anand S Workshop on Visualization at CYPHER2015
  Video (58m)
• 19 Sep 2015. Anand S Interview at CYPHER2015
  Video (7m)
• 15 Jul 2015. Visualizing the world's largest democratic exercise - Strata London 2015
  Video (44m)
• 12 Jul 2015. Faster data processing in Python - PyCon SG 2015
  Video (39m)
• 11 Jul 2015. Anand S - Visualising networks
  Video (43m)
• 06 Apr 2015. Data, Politics and Anomalies | S Anand | TEDxNMIMSBangalore
  Video (13m)
• 13 Oct 2014. Faster data processing in Python
  Video (55m)
• 09 Sep 2014. [Part - 3] Hive Meetup - The power equation Big Data + Social in Governance
  Video (27m)
• 01 Sep 2014. Scaling real-time visualisations for elections 2014
  Video (44m)
• 13 Aug 2014. WCNGT 2014 Day 2 Part 3
  Video (16m)
• 13 Aug 2014. WCNGT 2014 Day 2 Part 2
  Video (17m)
• 13 Aug 2014. WCNGT 2014 Day 2 Part 1
  Video (17m)
• 24 Apr 2014. [ODCBLR2014] Visualizing Election Data by Anand S
  Video (44m)
• 01 Apr 2014. Visualising Big Data by Anand S
  Video (52m)
• 21 Mar 2014. UNICOM India Big Data Week 2014 Part 7
  Video (23m)
• 21 Mar 2014. UNICOM India Big Data Week 2014 Part 6
  Video (23m)
• 21 Mar 2014. UNICOM India Big Data Week 2014 Part 5
  Video (9m)
• 06 Sep 2013. Data Visualization in PowerPoint with Python by Anand S
  Video (43m)
• 27 Jul 2013. Scraping the Government with Javascript - Anand S
  Video (32m)
• 04 Jul 2013. Python Pandas tutorial by S. Anand
  Video (71m)
• 07 Dec 2012. Anand S - Beautiful visualizations with d3.js
  Video (61m)
• 01 Oct 2012. 1st october 2012 thinking with data part 1
  Video (49m)
• 01 Oct 2012. 1st october 2012 thinking with data part 3
  Video (5m)
• 01 Oct 2012. 1st october 2012 thinking with data part 2
  Video (5m)
• 01 Oct 2012. 1st october 2012 thinking with data part 4
  Video (42m)
• 17 Sep 2012. Thinking with Data September 17th 2012 Anand part 3
  Video (36m)
• 17 Sep 2012. Thinking with Data September 17th 2012 Anand part 4
  Video (11m)
• 17 Sep 2012. Thinking with Data September 17th 2012 Anand part 1
  Video (49m)
• 17 Sep 2012. Thinking with Data September 17th 2012 Anand part 2
  Video (3m)
• 04 Sep 2012. Handling Data (Part 2) - Anand S.
  Video (36m)
• 03 Sep 2012. Handling Data (Part 1) - Anand S.
  Video (42m)
• 28 Aug 2012. Thinking with Data - Anand S.
  Video (28m)
• 27 Jul 2012. The Fifth Elephant - Big data panel
  Video (63m)
• 27 Jul 2012. S Anand & Ganes Kesari - Visualising Text
  Video (45m)
• 30 Mar 2012. S. Anand: Pictures through numbers
  Video (36m)
• 27 Mar 2012. Anand S - Data Visualisation in JavaScript
  Video (39m)
• 13 Feb 2012. JSFoo Chennai 2012 Previews - S. Anand - Data Visualisation in JavaScript
  Video (1m)

Others' Talks

• 08 Apr 2026. Frontiers in Technology — Debjani Ghosh at LBSNAA, Mussoorie.
  Government leaders need to anticipate frontier technologies years before they mainstream. Today's policy, R&D, and capability investments determine whether India leads or catches up.
  Transcript · Audio (84m)
• 13 Nov 2025. AI First Thinking for HR Professionals — Nirmal Palaparthi at Impress AI, Singapore.
  AI-first HR means redesigning work, not adding a chatbot. Better questions, structured context, process re-engineering, and AI as a first-class participant matter more.
  Transcript
• 21 Sep 2025. Making Open Data Useful: Lessons from Diagram Chasing — Vivek Matthew and Aman Bhargava at IndiaFOSS 2025, Bangalore, India.
  Open data is useful only when people can find, understand, trust, and reuse it. Good interfaces, validation, documentation, and reproducible pipelines turn publication into utility.
  Video (29m) · Transcript
• 21 Sep 2025. Building a culture of openness — Zainab Bawa at IndiaFOSS 2025, Bangalore, India.
  Open peer review can turn conference selection into community learning. Clear roles, public feedback, scoped incentives, and measurable outcomes make openness sustainable.
  Transcript
• 20 Sep 2025. Homelabbing with Bare Metal — Kiran Jonnalagadda at IndiaFOSS 2025, Bangalore, India.
  Homelabbing works best when hardware is low-power, modular, and easy to reconfigure. Iterative DIY rigs make experimentation cheap enough to follow curiosity.
  Video (40m) · Transcript
• 18 Jul 2025. True but Irrelevant — Rob Schrauwen at TeX User Group 2025, Thiruvananthapuram.
  Rigid schemas can be technically correct yet operationally irrelevant. Preserve provenance, annotate assertions separately, and model the data people actually produce.
  Video (16m) · Transcript · Audio (19m)
• 07 Mar 2022. The Accomplished Beginner — Rajen Makhijani at Network Capital.
  A portfolio career requires becoming an accomplished beginner again and again: experiment with one foot, combine disciplines, and use past accomplishments as confidence rather than status.
  Video (36m) · Transcript
• 20 Feb 2022. The Glass Wall of Class — Rajen Makhijani at The Mindful Wealth Podcast.
  Class divides make other people's choices look irrational because their context is invisible. Crossing the glass wall builds empathy and reveals shared human motives.
  Video (36m) · Transcript

Bio for talks

If you need a short bio to introduce me, you're welcome to modify this.

Anand is an LLM psychologist at Straive, where he researches AI and publishes demos. He co-founded Gramener, a data stories company, which was acquired in 2023. He teaches Tools in Data Science at IIT Madras. He's among India's top 10 data scientists and AI influencers and also a regular TEDx/Pycon speaker.

Anand is an alumnus of IIM Bangalore, IIT Madras, London Business School, IBM, Infosys Consulting, Lehman Brothers, and BCG.

More importantly, he hand-transcribed every Calvin & Hobbes strip ever, is addicted to Minecraft & Anime (thanks to his daughter), and dreams of watching every film on the IMDb Top 250 (except The Shining).

He blogs at s-anand.net.

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Logistics

• Presentation: I usually present interactive demos rather than a fixed slide deck.
• Laptop: I use my own Lenovo/Ubuntu laptop via HDMI + USB3. I need it near the podium so I can type.
• Screen: 16:9, 16:10, or 4:3 displays are fine. Please check that circles appear as circles, not ovals.
• Internet: My demos need Internet. If mobile data at venue is flaky, please help with Wi-Fi.
• Security: I don't carry ID. If venue security requires one, please escort my phone, laptop, and me.
• Attire: I wear round-neck T-shirts, jeans, and open sandals. Please allow this.
• Badges: Please print my name on both sides, in large letters.
• Agenda: Please share the agenda and other speakers' sessions so I can attend and adapt my talk to the room.
• Recording: Please record my video + audio + screen and share it publicly - or at least with me.

Fee / honorarium

I don't charge or pay a fee for public talks. I only accept dry fruits, Wikipedia donations, or GitHub donations as honorarium. Contact me for corporate/private talks. I generally share sanitized recordings publicly.