Hey, I'm Rick Martin. I live in Tokyo where I mostly write about technology for Penn Olson, The Japan Times, CNNgo, and other publications. I cover sports sometimes too. You can browse my work or my reading list, follow me on Twitter or my blog, or send me an email if you'd just like to chat.
What I'm Writing
China Internet Penetration Map 2012 | Penn Olson
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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]
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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.
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