One aspect of the Delivering Data chapter that really stuck with me was to always ask yourself “Who is my audience and what are their needs?”. I feel like one of the most important things to remember when working with
Handbook and Dataset
I particularly enjoyed this last chapter of our Data Journalism Handbook because it gave first-hand insight into data journalism projects and finding data sets. It made me feel a lot better that the struggled with finding data sets as much
Telling Tales with Data
As we have discussed countless times, data visualization is so important when telling a story. Whether we display information in charts or graphs, being able to condense information to be analyzed and consumed by the public is now a necessary
Data for Data Sake
What I gleaned from the articles is how important data journalism is and how easy it can be misused. Data for data sake is a downfall of data journalism. In order for data visualization or data journalism to become human,
Noise Violations in Austin
The Delivering Data chapter of the Data Journalism Handbook made some interesting points that I hadn’t truly thought about in terms of making your data available and prioritizing data projects. As someone with a design focus I normally think more
This data set is Excel-ent
As other people have noted, the largest takeaway from the Delivering Data chapter is the need to deliver data quickly, clearly, and with a concise story. I think that what Scott Klein had to say about news apps was very
Mix Beverages Data to the Rescue?
At the beginning I skimmed through the Delivering Data chapter to find ideas about what kind of data can be manipulated for music in Austin. Next I looked through many of the different databases that our wonderful professor gave us.
Deliviring Data
Upon reading Data Journalism’s How To Deliver Data one thing became clear: humans have an incredible short attention span. We can no longer receive visuals without loosing interests or just receive visuals without texts to engage us. Blame it on the zeitgeist,
Delivering Deliberate Data
So my main takeaway from the Delivering Data section of the Data Journalism Handbook is that news with a data component to it needs to be relevant and engaging. The data needs to tell a story. A story that the
Bands and Genres and Hashtags, #OhMy
So, for my final project, I would like to attempt to look at Texas bands and artists by genre and use a Twitter API to pull out their most frequently used hashtags. The questions I’m looking to answer is does