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Gurjot

Hi! You probably know me from somewhere. Yep, that's me. That Gurjot.

I dabble in software, education, data, writing, and things in-between.

I get hired to use data to inform decisions in the Indian social sector. You can read the details of my professional work here.

Have fun! See you around.

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Blog

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Designing a Holistic Early Learning Programme
How to break students away from the IIT-IIM chain?
Framework for a Robust Data Pipeline
Surveillance Pedagogy is Coming
Bitcoin Mentality is Ruining Our Education

Projects

💪 Protein Calculator 🏋️

Track your protein intake. This web app is accompanied by a newsletter post. I developed this almost entirely using ChatGPT and Claude. 2024 • Web App

Data for Education Systems

Better MIS for Indian education. This work was part of a Mozilla-USAID grant. 2023 • Resource

Deadline

Writing/habit tracker. Originally developed to help my lovely wife (then girlfriend) with her PhD manuscript. Posted about it on academic sub-reddits and it was well received especially by ADHD folks. It is somehow quite popular in Switzerland. 2022 • Web App

Air Quality Data

Scripts for scraping data from CPCB's servers. Developed this to help 'Sustainable Futures Collective' with their research on the impact of ambient air quality on mortality. The code doesn't work anymore because of changes in CPCB's server security (yay we caused this!) but the extracted data is available on the GitHub repository. 2022 • GitHub

NAS Data Dump

CSV files from the National Achievement Survey 2021 dashboard. 2022 • GitHub

UDISE District Dump

District-level data scraped from UDISE+ dashboard. Did this to help a PhD student out with her research. 2022 • GitHub

Science of Learning

Interesting, effective and memorable. A topic of pedagogical research that I am interested in. Have not pursued it yet. 2021 • Here

Book Notes

Notes from books of note. Sometimes I take notes from books. It makes it easier to revisit a specific something that I liked when I read the book. But it is an extra chore on top of reading so I don't log my book notes digitally as much. 2021 • Here

Chachi

The teacher's best friend. My first taste of success! I learned web development to bring this idea to life. Really proud of how it came along. It got a fair bit of traction in 2020 but I haven't done anything about it since. Should I plug an LLM into it? Hit me up if you have ideas. 2020 • Web App

Simplifyd

A podcast about cool stuff. Ran this podcast with a friend back in Zurich. The website is down but the episodes are all available on YouTube. 2017 • Podcast

Buzee 🐶

An app to find your docs, effortlessly. Spent almost two years developing this app. I was hoping to spin it into a SaaS startup but that didn't pan out because I never gave it my full attention. The code is open source and it made it to the front page of Hacker News for a weekend. 2024 • App

Scratch

Scratchpad in your Mac Menubar. Developed this over a weekend to see how the Swift programming language works. Took generous help from GPT-3. 2023 • GitHub

HTML Calendar.js

Calendars in HTML tables. This was a side-effect of developing Deadline. It is a lightweight, zero dependency, plug-n-play solution for showing calendars on a webpage using HTML tables. 2022 • GitHub

FLS Data Dump

CSV files from PDFs of the Foundational Learning Study 2022. 2022 • GitHub

UDISE Data Dump

CSV files from UDISE+ PDF reports. 2022 • GitHub

XYZ Explained†

Analogies, lyrics and stuff. Mostly lyrics to Punjabi songs, to be fair. It is the most visited section of my website! 2021 • Here

Distilled Knowledge

Listicles for brain tickles. 2021 • Here

Buzo.Dog

My personal reading app. This was early in my web/software development journey. I scraped articles from a bunch of publications that I like to read and then put together a web app for reading them. It was intended to be my personal replacement for Pocket. I have since taken it down. The code is open source but likely outdated and not great quality. 2020 • Web App

ETHZ Thesis

LaTeX template for a thesis at ETH Zurich. 2017 • GitHub

What I have been reading

If there are articles and books that you really enjoyed and think I would like too, please please please email me about them! I would love it.

Articles

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This list is automatically updated based on the recently saved articles in my Readeck app. See also: Link Blog

Books

My goodreads profile is a bit more regularly updated than this list.