India, April 16 -- A San Francisco-based Indian techie has built a dashboard that uses official data from US authorities to show which companies hire the most H-1Bs and what salaries they draw. Harnoor Singh explained that he was rejected from the H-1B lottery twice in five years, so he built the dashboard to understand more about the visa programme.

Singh's dashboard uses data from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services and US Department of Labor to clearly show who is getting H-1B visas, for what jobs, where, and at what salaries over time.

"In the past 5 years I got rejected from the H-1B lottery twice so I read every USCIS report from the last 25 years and built a dashboard to show what's actually happening," he wrot...