Data Analysis
Patterns of Japanese Commercial Shipping
An analysis of the evolving geography of Japanese shipping in the twentieth century based on historical data from ship logbooks. The visualization of Japanese ship movements and the reconstruction of shipping networks between world ports offer new insights on the expansion of Japanese ships in global transportation.
Topics in Japanese Economic News
An examination of public discussion of economic affairs through the analysis of textual data from three decades of newspaper articles. Methods from machine learning, such as topic modelling, make it possible to identify broad patterns in economic discourse in the Japanese press.
Software
- Command Line Teaching is a toolkit that I wrote in Python to streamline the upload of course materials to Canvas LMS.
- Pykari is a simple static site generator that I wrote in Python. (I use it to build this website!)