About Me
Hi, I'm Vimal! I'm an International Politics Graduate, currently pursuing a MSc in Social and Geographic Data Science at UCL.
I have a passion for data-driven research, my work focuses on tracking censorship patterns, privacy law, analysing political trends, and exploring how information flows (or is restricted) across different political systems.
My Work
Censorship Tracker
Created a simple tracker looking at the censorship of Social Media around the world.
View Project →Mining Social & Geographic Datasets
Report analysing mobility patterns in Cambridge and machine-learning sentiment classification of Calgary restaurant reviews.
View Report →Spatial Deep Learning for House Prices
Report using a Graph Neural Network (GraphSAGE) on London's LSOA adjacency graph to predict median house prices, beating non-spatial baselines.
View Report →Housing Constraints & European Fertility
Video brief arguing that housing constraints significantly contribute to Europe's fertility decline through space, affordability, and tenure insecurity, with three policy recommendations.
View Report →Mapping the Papacy
Data visualisation tracing where the last eleven popes were born and how the College of Cardinals that elects them slowly stopped being an Italian institution.
View Project →Polio Tracker
Vaccination campaigns have pushed polio to the brink of eradication, with endemic transmission now limited to just two countries.
View Project →Song of the Month
I once overheard someone playing The Girl From Ipanema on the Piano. After having a brief conversation they recommended Stone Flower by Jobim where this record comes from.