Shibaprasad Bhattacharya

Ahead of the first round of voting on the 23rd, I have written 4 data driven pieces on #WestBengal
Part 1: #Kolkata vs the Metros
https://ordinaryanalysis.substack.com/p/kolkata-a-rank-worth-questioning
Part 2: Industrialisation and Investment
https://ordinaryanalysis.substack.com/p/west-bengal-economy-large-by-size-thin-by-structure
Part 3: Health Outcomes
https://ordinaryanalysis.substack.com/p/west-bengal-solved-healthcare-access
Part 4: Welfare Worked. Wealth Didn’t Follow.
https://ordinaryanalysis.substack.com/p/west-bengal-welfare-worked-wealth

Part 5 is the synthesis. It will try to connect the threads across cities, economy, health, and human development. It will also carry some personal commentary.

Part 2 of my West Bengal data series is here:

West Bengal's Economy: Large by Size, Thin by Structure

#India #WestBengal #Data @mastodonindians@a.gup.pe

https://www.grainofdata.com/p/west-bengal-economy-large-by-size-thin-by-structure

The View From RSS - What the web looks like when you subscribe to 2,000 RSS feeds.

Such a cool setup. I would ike to have something like this someday. Where I would only have one feed to look at, I won't need anything else.

Currently, I have like 10 feeds.

#RSS #Tech

https://www.carolinecrampton.com/the-view-from-rss/

I wrote about my political beliefs and the atheistic discomforts associated with it in my new blog post.

#blogpost #personal #India #politics

https://ordinaryanalysis.substack.com/p/the-inner-dialogue-of-a-social-market

Local AI Needs to be the Norm.

#AI

https://unix.foo/posts/local-ai-needs-to-be-norm/

Record voter turnout in WB.

#India

In the ever-evolving knowledge economy, companies keep inventing new metrics to measure worker productivity.

The latest one: tokens consumed.

New post on why that's the wrong question, and what to ask instead.

#GenAI #AI #tech #technology #Productivity

https://www.shibaprasadb.com/2026/04/29/tokenmaxxing-tap-in.html

South Bengal votes Wednesday. The RG Kar case didn't end with protests. It ended with silence from those in power. That silence is a choice. So is your vote.

Vote like someone is watching. Because someone always is.

#WestBengal

Does your organisation share AI usage data with employees? Weekly snapshots, leaderboards, peer comparisons - anything of that sort.

Boosts are appreciated for a wider sample.

#GenAI #AI #Tech #Technology #poll

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-8stQCeQiE

Brilliant. Really loving the commentary by Cal Newport on all things AI.

#GenAI #AI

A little bit of social stress is good for you. Weddings where you know no one are a great place to start. I attended 3 like that recently. In my latest post, I wrote about that.

https://ordinaryanalysis.substack.com/p/kebabs-and-strangers

#blog #newsletter #blogpost

West Bengal goes to the polls in weeks. Over the next month, I'll be publishing a 5-part data series on Grain of Data covering Kolkata vs the metros, industrialisation, health, education, and what the numbers actually say about the state. Part 1 drops tomorrow. Subscribe here:

https://www.grainofdata.com/subscribe

#Data #india #WestBengal

Most GenAI-driven productivity debates, I feel, quietly assume GenAI is just a coding tool. But for teams actually building AI-native features, the problem is quite different. Wrote about it in my blog, with a couple of visuals that I think make the argument clearer than words alone.

#GenAI #Tech #DataAnalytics #ProductManagement

https://www.grainofdata.com/p/genai-in-product-means-ends

They praise India loudly, and then formally, legally, and permanently exit it. In my latest blog post, I wrote about long-distance loyalty.

https://ordinaryanalysis.substack.com/p/cheering-from-the-exit

#Writing #Blog #Blogging

Check Your F**cking Sources, People!

#AI #GenAI

https://brodzinski.com/2026/05/check-fcking-sources.html

Part 4 of the West Bengal Data Series is out. Literacy, education, income, and HDI. What the numbers actually say about a state that prides itself on intellect.
Last data piece. Synthesis drops next week. Before the election.

https://ordinaryanalysis.substack.com/p/west-bengal-welfare-worked-wealth

#Data #WestBengal #India #Blog #blogpost

Oh boy!

#India

https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/bengaluru-news/bengaluru-professor-booked-after-proposing-to-student-thrashed-on-campus-101774532165867-amp.html

Wrote about the London trip and what leaving India for the first time does to your priors.

https://ordinaryanalysis.substack.com/p/the-city-that-asked-me-to-take-a

https://elliotmorris.net/agents-agile-communism-coercion

Agents, Agile, Communism, Coercion

#AI #GenAI

'Mornings and nights no longer exist' at 47C: A day in the hottest place in India

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crmp0krp98ro

Praja Poll predicted a 200+ mandate for BJP in West Bengal. A tweet tried to “expose” them for sampling 4.5L men vs only 1.5L women. But I found that quite interesting.

A few Stat backed points in my new blogpost.

#statistics #analytics #datascience #newsletter #blogpost #India

https://open.substack.com/pub/ordinaryanalysis/p/decoding-the-praja-poll-exit-poll?utm_source=app-post-stats-page&r=i27rg&utm_medium=ios

An AI coding agent, used to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs

#GenAI #AI

https://www.jamesshore.com/v2/blog/2026/you-need-ai-that-reduces-your-maintenance-costs

The Man Who Reads Books For a Living

https://lithub.com/the-man-who-reads-books-for-a-living-one-every-two-days/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YkZ_7IQ5x4

:-)

West Bengal solved the healthcare access problem. The health outcomes didn't follow completely. Part 3 of the Bengal Data Series is live.

#India #Data #WestBengal @mastodonindians@a.gup.pe

https://ordinaryanalysis.substack.com/p/west-bengal-solved-healthcare-access

@bms48@mastodon.social Nicely put.

Modi wins because he understands where India’s heart lies. Right in politics, Left in economics

#India

https://theprint.in/opinion/modi-indias-right-politics-left-economics/2926376/

Interesting. Even the Jamaat won most seats in the border area during the Bangladesh election.

#Bangladesh #India

https://indianexpress.com/article/political-pulse/west-bengal-bjp-win-border-seats-widened-margins-infiltration-narrative-10683019/

Supreme Court’s NCERT textbook order punishes the messenger, doesn’t answer the message

#India #News

https://theprint.in/opinion/supreme-courts-ncert-textbook/2881080/

Mamata is paving the way for BJP in Bengal: Rahul Gandhi

Couldn't agree more.

#News #India

https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/kolkata-news/mamata-is-paving-the-way-for-the-bjp-in-bengal-rahul-gandhi-101777133640835.html

In a small town in Gujarat, researchers are training AI to detect anaemia, without drawing blood

https://theprint.in/health/in-a-small-town-in-gujarat-researchers-are-training-ai-to-detect-anaemia-without-drawing-blood/2889238/