Slides used in the talk by Ganes Kesari at Open Data Camp conducted at ISB Hyderabad, on 28th Jun 2014

1. Visual Insights of the
World’s Largest Democracy
By B.Ganes Kesari & Shravan Kumar
ODC 2014, ISB

2. History of Elections in India
Interactively explore the historical view of General Elections
AGENDA
Some Interesting Insights
Discuss key insights across various perspectives
Counting Day Unfolds
How real-time visual analytics were served on the Live Results

3. What do Elections remind us of ?

4. Massive Rallies..

5. Myriad Symbols & Colours..

6. Seasonal businesses..

7. High-decibel campaigning..

8. …and Victory laps.

9. ~300 Parties fielding 8000 candidates
~800 Mn Registered Voters
~1 Mn booths served by 20 Mn people
~21,000 Votes/sec of live results
Varied data on several parameters
A Big Data problem… in every sense
But General Elections also entail…

10. Can we visualize the results of
every single Lok Sabha election
since Independence?

11. https://gramener.com/election/parliament

12. On the other hand, which party
has the most losses in Lok Sabha
elections?

13. https://gramener.com/election/parliament#story.ddp

14. Which constituency had the most
number of candidates ever?

15. https://gramener.com/election/parliament#cartogram?METRIC=CANDIDATES&YEAR=1996

16. http://ibn.gramener.com/cartogram/?ST_NAME=Tamil%20Nadu

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More contestants did not reduce the winner margin
Karnataka, Assembly Elections 2008

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More contestants did reduce the runner-up margin
Karnataka, Assembly Elections 2004

19. Does age make a difference?
Do old candidates win less often?

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22. What about wealth? How is that
distributed?

23. http://times.gramener.com/candidates/

24. RS 1 LAKH

25. RS 10 LAKHS

26. RS 1 CRORE

27. RS 10 CRORES

28. RS 100 CRORE

29. RS 1,000 CRORES

30. RS 10,000 CRORES

31. LIVE ELECTION ANALYSIS
Our CNN-IBN
Microsoft Election
Analytics Canter, which
you can see at
www.bing.com/electio
ns or http://ibn.grame
ner.com/live, served
over 10 million
requests on 16th May
2014 — the day of India
election results.
This is one of the
largest real-time
visualisations that we
(and perhaps many
others) have attempted

32. LIVE ELECTION ANALYSIS
How did the regional
parties fair??
Was it only the BJP
who managed clean
sweeps?
ADMK in TN
BJD in OD
TRS in TG
TMC in WB
Managed historic wins.

33. Video recreating
how the Election results unfolded

34. We handle terabyte-size data via non-traditional analytics and visualise it in real-time.
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your data
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that make your business problem & solution visually obvious.
We help you find insights quickly, based on cognitive research,
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Thank You! ganes.Kesari@gramener.com
shravan.kumar@gramener.com