Telegram Tech Channels by Alexander Varlamov

Telegram has evolved from a simple messaging app into an aggregator of news, blogs, corporate chats, stores, and various applications. Telegram channels are growing rapidly, and now we start our day with news from Telegram channels instead of visiting news websites, which was common just 5 years ago. Additionally, Telegram has taken over some of the functions of social networks.

As a part of the project, data on over 700 000 Telegram channels, ranging from 0 to over 100 000 subscribers, has been collected using web scraping scripts and published on Kaggle.

In the 'Telegram Tech Channels' visualization, Russian-speaking tech channels with 10,000 to 100,000 subscribers are gathered. The visualization uses a Packed Bubble Chart, where the area of the circles is proportional to the number of subscribers. Hovering over the circles shows information about the channels and provides links to visit them.