Client Work on Structure and Representation

NHK Special: Verifying the 77 Trillion Yen COVID-19 Budget (Companion Content)

Wed, 29 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0900

Companion content to the NHK Special “Verifying the 77 Trillion Yen COVID-19 Budget,” visualizing the subset of administrative program review data that can be called the “COVID-19 budget” from a variety of angles.

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Your “COVID-19 Budget”: verifying how 77 trillion yen was spent — NHK

Publication Date

December 29, 2021

Project Client

NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation)

Project Description

#1 By ministry and policy (stacked bar chart)

Shows the rough content of each program and the ministry in charge.

#2 What outcomes for what budgets? (slope chart)

Shows the budget size, the amount actually spent, and program activity outcomes.

#3 A “COVID-19 budget” before COVID-19? (beeswarm)

Shows the timing and duration of programs.

#4 The mystery of the 100%-achievement-rate (small multiples)

Shows the performance indicators and goal-achievement status used to evaluate programs.

#5 Where did the money go? (Sankey diagram)

Shows payees and payment amounts for each ministry that disbursed the budget.

Project Role

Art direction (partial), front-end coding (partial).

Judgit!

Wed, 10 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0900

Co-developed a website that allows users to easily search national government programs and tax expenditures by keyword.

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Judgit!

judgit.net

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Publication Date

July 10, 2019

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Judgit! Project Team

Project Description

Judgit! is a website that lets users easily search national government programs and tax expenditures by keyword. It was co-developed with the policy think tank Koso Nippon, the NPO Waseda Chronicle (now Tansa), and the Onoue Yosuke Laboratory at Nihon University.

Project Role

Top page design; coding of the program search and chart search features.

Cartogram for AERA Magazine

Mon, 20 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0900

A cartogram visualization of “vote-value disparity” data, created for the magazine AERA.

Publication Date

February 20, 2017

Project Client

AERA

Project Description

Visualized “vote-value disparity” (ippyō no kakusa) data as a cartogram. Multiple algorithms were evaluated; data was processed in QGIS, rendered in D3.js, and finalized in Adobe Illustrator as print-ready artwork.

Project Role

Data processing, figure production, preparation of print-ready artwork.

Open Data Day Official Generative Logo

Tue, 14 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0900

Designed the official generative logo for Open Data Day, an annual event held simultaneously in cities around the world to promote awareness and use of open data.

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Publication Date

February 14, 2017

Project Client

Open Knowledge Japan

Project Description

Open Data Day is an annual event promoting awareness and use of open data, held simultaneously in cities around the world. In Japan, Open Knowledge Japan organizes it, with events in locations across the country.

The original request from Open Knowledge Japan was for a static logo for the event, but I proposed the concept and implementation of a dynamic logo instead. It was subsequently adopted officially and is now used for events held around the world.

As a tool, entering a city name generates a local logo with an original composition derived from the city’s name and latitude/longitude. The generated logo can be used for both print and web.

Project Role

Art direction, design, front-end coding, and data processing — all handled personally.

Voices of Nuclear Evacuees — NHK Fukushima Station Survey

Tue, 16 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0900

A word cloud based on a survey of residents evacuated from Okuma, Futaba, Namie, and Tomioka — four towns within the Fukushima Daiichi evacuation zone.

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Voices of Nuclear Evacuees — NHK Fukushima Station Survey

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Publication Date

February 16, 2016

Project Client

NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation)

Project Description

Based on a survey conducted by NHK Fukushima station of residents evacuated from the four towns of Okuma, Futaba, Namie, and Tomioka within a 10 km radius of the nuclear plant, we created word clouds and designed a UI that allows users to get an overview of responses by attribute and drill down from any word of interest.

From the official site:

“The survey was conducted by NHK Fukushima station from November through December 2014, targeting 5,000 residents evacuated from the four towns of Okuma, Futaba, Namie, and Tomioka within a 10 km radius of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. 1,154 responses were collected.

A free-response section was placed at the end of the survey, asking about residents’ hopes and opinions regarding their future homes and their towns. Responses are published as faithfully as possible to the original, with punctuation added in places for readability. For the word cloud, word forms were standardized to NHK’s editorial conventions (e.g. 子供 → 子ども).”

Project Role

Design, coding, data processing.

Yahoo! Minna no Seiji — Is Important Information Getting Through? The Information Gap Today

Fri, 06 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0900

A visualization, drawn from official statistics, of how different internet devices are adopted across generations.

Yahoo! Minna no Seiji — Is Important Information Getting Through? The Information Gap Today

Publication Date

October 6, 2017

Project Client

Yahoo Japan Corporation

Project Description

A piece produced through the “Social Issues Ideathon” organized by Yahoo! Minna no Seiji, timed with the lowering of Japan’s voting age to 18.

Titled “Is Important Information Getting Through? The Information Gap Today,” the piece visualizes, from statistical data, how different internet devices are adopted across generations. The rapid shifts in internet devices themselves made it difficult to maintain a consistent time-series.

The concept came from an idea presented by a high-school student group at the ideathon, which we then realized as this work.

Project Role

Design and coding.

Yahoo! Minna no Seiji — Visualizing Diet Members' Speaking Time

Fri, 06 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0900

An explorable visualization of aggregate speaking time by Diet members during Japan’s 2015 ordinary Diet session.

Yahoo! Minna no Seiji — Visualizing Diet Members' Speaking Time

Publication Date

October 6, 2017

Project Client

Yahoo Japan Corporation

Project Description

A piece produced through the “Social Issues Ideathon” organized by Yahoo! Minna no Seiji, timed with the lowering of Japan’s voting age to 18.

Titled “Visualizing Diet Members’ Speaking Time — What do Diet members actually do in the Diet?”, it aggregates and presents speaking time during the 2015 ordinary Diet session in an explorable form.

The concept came from an idea presented by a middle-school student group at the Tankyu Gakusha ideathon, which we then realized as this work.

Project Role

Design and coding. Idea facilitation during the ideathon.

Yokohama City — Population Transitions

Sun, 24 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0900

An intuitive view of how Yokohama’s population has changed and is projected to change over the long period from 1955 to 2035, showing a population pyramid and a map side by side.

Yokohama City — Population Transitions

Publication Date

April 24, 2016

Project Client

Yokohama Community Design Lab

Project Description

Produced as contributed content for “LOCAL GOOD YOKOHAMA,” operated by the Yokohama Community Design Lab. An intuitive view of how Yokohama’s population has changed and is projected to change over the long period from 1955 to 2035, showing a population pyramid and a map side by side.

Household Budgets and Prices, at a Touch

Sun, 11 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0900

After Japan’s consumption tax rose from 5% to 8%, did it affect wages, prices, and household spending?

Household Budgets and Prices, at a Touch

Publication Date

January 11, 2015

Project Client

NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation)

Project Description

Produced as news content for NHK. After Japan’s consumption tax rose from 5% to 8%, did it affect wages, prices, and household spending? Titled “Household Budgets and Prices, at a Touch,” it presents the data with restrained animation. Best viewed on a desktop.

Source data:

Wage data: Monthly Labour Survey (Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare)
Price data: Consumer Price Index (Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications); Nissay Basic Research Institute
Spending data: Family Income and Expenditure Survey (Statistics Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications)

Client Work on Structure and Representation

NHK Special: Verifying the 77 Trillion Yen COVID-19 Budget (Companion Content)

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#1 By ministry and policy (stacked bar chart)

#2 What outcomes for what budgets? (slope chart)

#3 A “COVID-19 budget” before COVID-19? (beeswarm)

#4 The mystery of the 100%-achievement-rate (small multiples)

#5 Where did the money go? (Sankey diagram)

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Judgit!

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Cartogram for AERA Magazine

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Open Data Day Official Generative Logo

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Voices of Nuclear Evacuees — NHK Fukushima Station Survey

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Yahoo! Minna no Seiji — Is Important Information Getting Through? The Information Gap Today

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Yahoo! Minna no Seiji — Visualizing Diet Members' Speaking Time

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Yokohama City — Population Transitions

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Household Budgets and Prices, at a Touch

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