Samples of my work
Asia Pacific Overtakes Europe as Apple’s Second Largest Revenue Source
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After Apple released it's second quarter financials for Q2 2012, I took a look back through some of their previous reports to dig up regional breakdown of revenue. It turns out that the last quarter marked the first time that Asia accounted for more revenue than Europe, most powered by strong sales in China. You can the shift represented in my chart below.
Japan’s Docomo Hits 60 Million Mobile Subscribers | TechInAsia.com
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As Japan’s NTT Docomo reached 60 million subscribers, I jumped into a fairly large data set of the country’s mobile subscribers since 1996 to see how things progressed over time. I wrote about this in two blog posts (here and here, with the data visualized first as a timeline, and also as an animated bar braph. Both are below.
50 ultimate travel apps ... so far | CNNgo.com
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There is of course one smartphone app no true traveler could ever do without. We’re going to skip over obvious ones like Twitter, Facebook, Skype, Gowalla, Foursquare, Instagram, Google Earth/Maps, as worthy as they are, for ones you may have overlooked, but shouldn’t.
China Internet Penetration Map 2012 | TechInAsia.com
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So, you may have noticed that we like maps and charts and stuff… And after CNNIC released its recent report on internet use in China, one of the key datasets that I was eager to look at was internet penetration by province. I thought I’d put it on a map and see how it looked
The State of the Internet in Asia [MAP] | TechInAsia.com
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Data taken from Akamai's State of the Internet report about internet speeds in Asia, mapped and charted with Google Fusion Tables and the Google Charts API
Japanese Population by Prefecture, Male vs Female [MAP]
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A population map of Japan, divided by prefecture, including the male/female breakdown in each area. This was my first experiment with shape files, as well as the Google Charts API (used to auto-generate the pink and blue graphs). Good fun.
New toys for retro gamers and wannabe rockers | The Japan Times
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Nostalgic gaming fans old enough to remember "Space Invaders" no doubt look back on it as one of the most memorable video games of years gone by. Japan's Taito Corporation created the arcade game back in 1978, and it has been a classic ever since.
3/11 Video Map: Archiving YouTube Clips of the Japan Quake and Tsunami
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Some of you may recall the Newfoundland Hurricane video map I made back last September. I was a little fed up at the time with what I thought was primarily story-based disaster reporting from local news orgs, when there was an enormous amount of user-generated YouTube clips of the storm that were not being taken advantage of. I took a modest stab at mapping them using Google Fusion tables (frequently used by the more progressive/digital newsrooms), because viewing them by location seemed most logical.
Tokyo Game Show: Interview with Taisei Yoshida of GREE | TechInAsia.com
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I spoke with GREE's senior vice president of media business development at the 2011 Tokyo Game Show. Here is the video. Be sure to turn on the captions for the Japanese portion.
Panasonic and Sharp betting that, in Japan, 7 inches is enough | Japan Times
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It's obvious that tablet computers are making their mark on the electronics world, with Hewlett Packard this past week citing "the tablet effect" as a reason to consider a spinoff of its PC business. That's big. Especially as the company also said that it will cease production of its own tablet, the TouchPad, less than two months after it hit the shelves — effectively throwing in the towel in the battle with the iPad.
