Karthik Shashidhar

Data and AI consultant. Bangalore.

Consulting

I work with companies on data and AI problems: fractional data leadership, analytics architecture, AI adoption, and making data tools useful inside actual business workflows.

Writing

Art of Data Science — data, AI, analytics

Pertinent Observations — everything else

• How "agentic AI" makes for better data science
• Building an AI data-driven strategy consultant
• Why data analytics is perfect for GenAI
• The "industrial revolution" of data insights
• Self Service BI Serves Nobody

Also wrote for

Mint (columnist, 2013–2018), Times of India, Hindustan Times, Bloomberg Quint, Forbes. Author of Between the Buyer and the Seller (2017).

Projects

• Pensieve — iOS app for AI-assisted knowledge capture (2026)
• Bangalore Weather Visualiser — Tufte-style charts + AI commentary (2025)
• Votes to Seats — election prediction model
• Cricket match evaluator — live quantitative model
• Single malt Scotch whisky recommender

More on GitHub.

Previously

Co-founder, Babbage Insight (AI analytics). Head of Data Science, Delhivery. Adjunct Professor, IIM Bangalore. Resident Quant, Takshashila Institution. IIT Madras, IIM Bangalore.

Contact

karthik@karthiks.co · LinkedIn · Twitter · GitHub