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Mahesh Shantaram|

documentary photographer turned data scientist for the public good ㋡ man of the world living rent-free in a vscode workspace ㋡

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1Mike Jones3,074

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2Thu, Oct 2915

3Wed, Oct 283

4Sat, Oct 30

5Sun, Oct 40

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At a glance

GitHubFrom the GitHub profile.

Location: Bangalore, India
On GitHub since: 2021
Public repos: 31
Stars earned: 61
Followers: 49
Top languages: Jupyter Notebook, TypeScript, Python

Summary

Mahesh has been on GitHub since 2021, with 31 public repos and 61 stars across them. Lately busiest on manorama (adj. a view that is delightful to the mind. Also, the WOW-est way to e) and namma-metro-ridership-tracker (🇮🇳 Get to know Bengaluru City through the lens of its metro's riders). Writes mostly Jupyter Notebook, TypeScript and Python.

Now

GitHubPublic repos pushed in the last two weeks. Updates by itself.

Working on manorama: adj. a view that is delightful to the mind. Also, the WOW-est way to enjoy a photo gallery with anyone!
Working on namma-metro-ridership-tracker: 🇮🇳 Get to know Bengaluru City through the lens of its metro's ridership.
Working on traffic-monitor-lizard: A system to monitor and analyse road traffic flow on pre-determined routes within a city.

Topics

GitHubRepo topics and languages, from public repos.

TypeScript⁷Python⁷Jupyter Notebook⁶photo-gallery²india²public-transport²urban-data-science²photography²public-data²publishing²Rust²HTML²JavaScript²images¹photographs¹viewer¹bangalore¹metro-rail-transit¹

Projects

GitHubPublic repositories with the most commits.

File	status	commits	link
manorama	adj. a view that is delightful to the mind. Also, the WOW-est way to enjoy a photo gallery with anyone!	876	github.com/thecont1/manorama
traffic-oracle	Hyperlocal Road Traffic Monitor – compare current speeds with historical patterns across major routes. Know before you go.	398	github.com/thecont1/traffic-oracle
thecontrarian-in-website	The Personal Website of Mahesh Shantaram \| Visual Artist \| Data Scientist	294	github.com/thecont1/thecontrarian-in-website
flatwrite	FlatWrite turns plain markdown into beautiful, shareable documents you actually enjoy reading. Makes markdown publishing feel effortless.	272	github.com/thecont1/flatwrite
namma-metro-ridership-tracker	🇮🇳 Get to know Bengaluru City through the lens of its metro's ridership.	241	github.com/thecont1/namma-metro-ridership-tracker
robby	robby is a tiny explainable compiler for text-based visual compositions, producing obverse and reverse images plus a process manifest.	241	github.com/thecont1/robby

Code

GitHubCommits and languages, from GitHub.

3,269 commits across 31 repositories in the last year. Mostly Jupyter Notebook, TypeScript, Python, Rust, HTML and Ruby. github.com/thecont1

peak week: 357this week

Timeline

GitHubMilestones from public GitHub: joining, then the repos that stand out.

2021

Joined GitHub

2024

First public repo: india-votes-data

🇮🇳 Generate clean and fresh data from Indian parliamentary and assembly election results published by the Election Com (10 stars)

Started namma-metro-ridership-tracker

🇮🇳 Get to know Bengaluru City through the lens of its metro's ridership. (21 stars)

2025

Started aditya-L1-solar-explorer

Study solar flares and other phenomena using data from ISRO's Aditya-L1 space observatory (5 stars)

Started traffic-monitor-lizard

A system to monitor and analyse road traffic flow on pre-determined routes within a city. (11 stars)

2026

Started traffic-oracle

Hyperlocal Road Traffic Monitor – compare current speeds with historical patterns across major routes. Know before you g

Started manorama

adj. a view that is delightful to the mind. Also, the WOW-est way to enjoy a photo gallery with anyone!

Started srvm

a universal zero-config command-line tool to simply serve 'em all! (9 stars)

Elsewhere

GitHubOther places on the web.

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