Gurman Bhatia is a workshop trainer, an independent award-winning graphics and data journalist who covers the news with code, data and design. For the past seven years she have been using data and visuals to craft narratives at local, national and international news outlets.

For the past year, she has been covering the pandemic, working on data-driven stories about various aspects of the virus. She has told the story of pollution in Delhi through a set of photographs, as well as created visualisations with the faces of over 8,500 candidates contesting in the Indian election. Once, she also analysed 25,000 Bollywood songs to show the decline of the female solo.

Most recently, she worked at Reuters, creating visual narratives for their global graphics team. Previously, she worked at Hindustan Times as part of their first data and interactives team. A self-taught coder and designer, Gurman holds a Masters in Journalism from Columbia University. Her work has garnered several awards internationally, including the Online News Association awards, Malofiej Infographic Summit Awards and GEN data journalism awards.