Research — live from GitHub.
Every research document on this site is a markdown file in one of my repositories. This page collects them automatically — theses, editorials, research decisions, project philosophy, and lessons learned.
India State Competitiveness Index
This document is the full write-up of the project. It brings together the work from all the notebooks and the supporting documents into one place. It does not add any new analysis. Its purpose is to bring the project's methods, findings and reflections into o…
This project produced an index, but it also raised bigger questions about how public data can be used, how research should be documented, and how evidence can support better understanding. This note reflects on those questions. It is not an opinion piece. Eve…
This document is not about explaining what was done. It explains why each important design decision was made. Every decision is based on what actually happened during the project. The reasons are not invented after the fact.
Research is not only code and numbers. Behind every project there are a few simple ideas that guide how the work is done. This document explains the ideas that guided this project. It does not explain the methods again. It explains the way of thinking behind…
This is a look back at the project. Every lesson below comes from something that actually happened while building the India State Competitiveness Index. These are not general sayings. They are the specific things this project taught us.