About

Publications

Saraph, Anupam, Krishnan, Sanjana, 2020. “The Curious Case of PAN–Aadhaar Linkage”. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 55, Issue No. 35.
Krishnan, Sanjana, 2020. Book review, “Understanding the Indian Regulatory State”. Economic and Political Weekly.
Krishnan, Sanjana, Deo, Sahil, Sontakke, Neha, 2020. “Operationalizing algorithmic explainability in the context of risk profiling done by robo financial advisory apps”. Working paper, March 2020, Data Governance Network.
Krishnan, Sanjana, Manurkar, Shardul, Deo, Sahil, 2020. “50 days of lockdown: Measuring India’s success in arresting COVID-19”. Observer Research Foundation.
Kamath, Lalitha, Krishnan, Sanjana, Deoolkar, Purvam Bons, Avinash Kaur, Paralikar, Aradhana, 2020. “What mapping Mumbai’s Covid-19 relief work reveals about inequality in services and ‘slow violence’”. Scroll.in.
Deo, Sahil, Manurkar, Shardul, Krishnan, Sanjana, Franz, Christian, 2020. “COVID19 Vaccine: Development, Access and Distribution in the Indian Context”. Observer Research Foundation.
Deo, Sahil, Verulkar, Pooja, Krishnan, Sanjana, 2020. “Fast Data for Faster Decision-making: The Utility of High-frequency Economic Indicators”, 2020. Observer Research Foundation.

Conferences, invited talks and panels

2023: Paper presentation, "Technologies of the world's largest slum survey", AAG 2023, Denver
2022: Guest lecture, “How is Mumbai using data and technology”, School of Management and Labour Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
2021: “Governing health futures: youth consultation on the principles of health data governance”, Wilton Park
2020: Mechanism Design for Social Good (MD4SG), online DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.11192.37129
2020: “COVID Risk Index for Pune city”, International Digital Health and AI Research (I-DAIR), virtual, Geneva
2020: Changing Landscapes of Securities Market, Securities and Exchange Board of India, Mumbai
2019: Data Governance Network Conference, National Law School of India University, Bangalore
2019: ‘Mapping child safety’, Round Table meeting, Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights, Delhi
2018: “Statistics for development policy”, Department of Statistics, St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai
2017: 8th Annual International Conference on Climate Change, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai

Portfolio

Some examples of my data, coding and web mapping projects

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Land Ownership and Occupation in Mumbai

The map shows who owns the land that informal settlements are built on.

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Mumbai Municipal Election results

Mumbai's 2017 city government election results visualized.

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COVID relief work dashboard

Project for Tata Institute of Social Science's Community Led Action and Participation Project. The dashboard tracks covid relief effors undertaken during the second wave of COVID in Mumbai in Mar-Jun 2021.

image shows the visualization of vulnerability index produced from TISS CLAP 2020-21 survey

Vulnerability Index mapping

Project for Tata Institute of Social Science's Community Led Action and Participation Project. The project conducted a survey of 25,000 households in Mumbai's M-East Ward. The dashboard summarises results of the vulnerability index created to from the survey data.

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Repository of Mumbai's spatial datasets

Repository containing Mumbai's spatial boundary data on electoral wards (parliamentary, assembly and local body), administrative boundaries, census and basti (informal settlement) boundaries.

Contact

Hi, I am sanjana. I am currently a PhD candidate at the University of Kentucky. I have five years of experience in public policy, development, open data sector in strategic consulting, research and data analysis. Reach out to me at sanjana.krishn@gmail.com for projects and inquiries.

Technical skills

Coding: R; Python; JavaScript
GIS: QGIS for data analysis, manipulation, and, format conversion; PostGIS/SQL for data querying
Web Mapping: Leaflet for raster tilesets, basic thematic mapping, and telling stories with maps

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