A Visual Representation of the World Values Survey

Inspired by Akira Tachibana’s book “The Japanese,” this project visually represents Japan’s position within the World Values Survey.

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World Values Survey visualized on the Inglehart–Welzel cultural map

Publication Date

February 20, 2015

Project Client

Personal project

Project Description

Inspired by Akira Tachibana’s book “The Japanese,” this project visually represents Japan’s position within the World Values Survey. For example, the two axes of the Inglehart–Welzel cultural map:

“Traditional” vs. “Secular”
“Survival” vs. “Self-expression”

The officially published Inglehart–Welzel map was only available as a hand-drawn illustration, so I rebuilt it as a data-driven, time-series visualization and considered Japan’s position within it.

World Values Survey — time-series visualization of Japan’s position World Values Survey — the two axes of “Traditional vs Secular” and “Survival vs Self-expression” World Values Survey — distribution of countries

Project Role

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