CASI Data Seminar Series 2023

CASI Seminar

Moderated by Rukmini S.
Independent Data Journalist; CASI Fall 2022 Visiting Fellow

All Events Meet Virtually via Zoom

The CASI Data Seminar Series 2023 is practitioner-focused, aimed at researchers, students, academics, journalists, those in government, and private firms who use data in their work, and would like to be exposed to an exciting dataset with which to work. Pre- and post-session handouts will consolidate knowledge for all attendees. Every month, a leading practitioner will present on a relatively new or under-used dataset that he/she has deep working knowledge of, followed by audience Q&A.


Fall 2023 Data Seminar Videos:

September 27, 2023:
"Numbers for Nourishment: Diet, Consumption, and Access Insights"
Purnima Menon (Senior Director, Food and Nutrition Policy, IFPRI / CGIAR)

View Presentation Slides (Purnima Menon)


October 25, 2023:
"Inter-group Inequality in India: Insights from Surveys and the World Inequality Database"
Nitin Kumar Bharti (Postdoctoral Fellow in Economics, NYU-Abu Dhabi)

View Presentation Slides (Nitin Kumar Bharti)


November 8, 2023:
"Learning in India: What Input and Outcome Data Can Tell Us"
Abhijeet Singh (Associate Professor, Economics Department, Stockholm School of Economics)

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December 13, 2023:
"Connecting Boundaries: Merging Administrative & Geographic Data Using SHRUG"
Paul Novosad (Associate Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College)

View Presentation Slides (Paul Novosad)



Summer 2023 Data Seminar Videos:

May 24, 2023:
"Demographic Transitions: Fertility and Mortality"
Aashish Gupta (Demographer and Sociologist, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, University of Oxford)

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June 14, 2023:
"Women In (and Out of) the Workforce"
Vidya Mahambare (Professor and Director, Research, Great Lakes Institute of Management) & Sowmya Dhanaraj (Senior Research Fellow, Good Business Lab and Assistant Professor, Madras School of Economics)

View Presentation Slides (Vidya Mahambare & Sowmya Dhanaraj)


July 12, 2023:
"Health Data: Indicators and Access"
William Joe (Assistant Professor, Population Research Center, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, and Bernard Lown Scholar, Harvard-Chan School of Public Health)

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August 23, 2023:
"Sub-National Administrative Data: The New Frontier"
Neelanjan Sircar (Senior Fellow, CPR and Assistant Professor, Ashoka University)

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Spring 2023 Data Seminar Videos:

January 18, 2023:
"The PMGSY and the Potential of Open Data from Rural India"
Harsh Nisar (Lead Data Scientist, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India)

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February 15, 2023:
"Migration Streams: Innovating with Data"
Chinmay Tumbe (Associate Professor of Economics, Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad)

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March 22, 2023:
"Climate Data: Expanding Horizons"
Roxy Koll (Climate Scientist, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune)

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April 19, 2023:
"Legal Data: New Possibilities"
Saurabh Karn (Researcher/Analyst, Justice Hub)

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The Nand & Jeet Khemka Distinguished Lecture Series is an endowed public program of the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI). Launched in the 2007-08 academic year, and made possible through the generous support of the Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation, the series brings renowned India specialists to the Penn community and serves as a critical forum for analyzing and understanding the complex economic, political, social, and cultural changes that the world’s largest democracy is experiencing, as well as the challenges that lie ahead.
The Saluja Global Fellows Program has been made possible by the generous gift from Vishal Saluja ENG’89 W’89. CASI was excited to launch the program during the 2022–23 academic year, coinciding with the Center’s 30th Anniversary. This new program enables CASI to invite eminent leaders and rising experts on contemporary India preferably from the fields of media, culture, law, and contemporary history to be in residence for one to two weeks at CASI.