HIROMI SATO

Reporter @NIKKEI

Hi, I'm Hiromi. I work for NIKKEI as a California-based correspondent. After 10-year experience as a reporter, I recently learned data journalism through the Lede program at Columbia university. This website shows what I can do to make our storytelling deeper and better. Please contact to me frankly. [Story ] buttons bring you to some poems while [more] to my GitHub repos.

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Project Portfolio

01

Price of Strength

analysis of lobbying expenditure

Technology giants have increased their lobbying expenditures over the years. This is an analysis through scraping of lobbying reports. >Story

Python (scikit learn), Scraping, Illustrator

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02

Should we locate SF?

analysis of IPO density

Is "within 50 miles of SF" essentiaI to be successful companies? I visualized density of IPO using geocoding and hexbin analysis. >Story

Python, QGIS, Photoshop, mapbox

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03

Spielberg now loves Netflix

analysis of streaming in Oscars

Amblin Partners, a film studio led by Steven Spielberg, reached a multi-year deal with Netflix. What changed his mind on streaming? >Story

Python, Canva, Datawrapper

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04

Amazon's footprint

geo-based analysis

Amazon has expanded its fulfillment center footprint inn the US. See when/how the company boosted its growth. >Story

QGIS, Photoshop,Tika

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05

Realtime unicorn checker

python templete for unicorn analysis

We often write the story about unicorns. Do you wan t to do same caluculation everytime? No! I created a python template. >Story

Python (on colab), Datawrapper

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06

Drought summer in West

visualizing drought in sevevral ways

Drought in California is getting into the worst level this year. I visualized situation in several ways. >Story

QGIS, Datawrapper, Flourish

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07

MOVIE>PNG / PDF>GIF

commandline graphics examples

Time lapse photos & gif sometimes works well for storytelling. I created some examples with simple command-line >Story

imagemagik

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08

How many adluts got VAX?

State/County/ZIP based mapping

Vaccination rate in the US is much diverse between county by county. Do you know your county's situation? Here is a map. >Story

Python, API, QGIS, Photoshop

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09

Diversity challenge in comments

manual web scraping

You will find a small blue icon written "Think!" on NIKKEI online. I figure out the challenge of expert commentary system with scraping . >Story

Scraping, Python, Canva

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10

Auto scrapers for lazy people

check weekly boxoffice continuously

I created an auto scraper for statistics of weekly boxofficce. This scraper helps to keep continuous changes. >Story

Python, GitHub Action

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11

Who got H1-B and who didn't

(on the way !)

Analyzing massive dataset of H1-B visa.

Python

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12

Scrollytelling

( on the way !)

On going project

JavaScript, d3

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Skills

Python (including pandas, matplotlib, scikit learn)
Webscraping, API queries
Regular Expressions
HTML and CSS
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
QGIS and other mapping softwares
git and github
Various spreadsheet softwares
Datawrapper/Flourish/Rawdata
Canva

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