A programmer turned journalist with a flair for design, Manya Gupta is the former Web Technical Editor for The World. She combines data and design to create data-visualizations and interactives as independent reporting pieces or as collaborative web features for the broadcast stories.She is a freelance designer and an active contributor to online data visualization community visual.ly where she was placed among the top 10 in the Health Data Visualization contest held in 2012.She is a former News21 fellow and a Knight News Foundation 2009 scholar.