After two years of speculation, Hillary Clinton recently announced that she will be running in the 2016 presidency election…and it is all over twitter. Although the tweets aren’t all positive, they’re still there and Hillary is definitely making her mark
Where’s the word on Whataburger??
Whataburger’s social media presence is one of the best in the industry. They create top-notch, entertaining content that encourages constant interaction between the brand and it’s audience. Their tongue-in-cheek tweets are especially appealing to their mostly millennial. I used the
General to Specific: Music Creation
I decided to start out in a general direction for the overall project by searching just the word music. I felt I would catch more than I wanted with this search and could help cut down on what is not
Tweeting #txst..
So Twitter is fairly useless when it comes to the history of bars in Austin, so I decided to look at tweets involving the “txst” hashtag to see if I could identify any music trends among Texas State students. Due
Too loud!
Given the amount of information people make public on Twitter and other similar social media sites and apps, being able to work with the APIs those companies make public is essential. While it may not lend itself to all data
Chvrches The Band
SXSW brings a plethora of bands from obscurity to stardom. Among these bands is Chvrches who got their start at the festival and have continued their wave of success passing through every major event. For this project I wanted to
Word to your Airbnb
The above graphic represents a word cloud of approximately 20,000 tweets using the terms “Airbnb” and either “cheap” or “expensive.” Using Tag Crowd, I removed those search terms as well as “http, en, la, le, ne, ou, uau, ygv” to
Data and the Devil of Hell’s Kitchen
For this project I wanted to see the concentration and locations of Tweets that were discussing the superhero Daredevil. Recently, Marvel has released a television adaptation of Daredevil on the streaming service known as Netflix. The show, which has been
Data, Data Everywhere, and not a drop to drink?
During the 2007 Nigerian Presidential election, the pundits were able to predict the presidential winner simply by monitoring the nations social media. Although I know that this nation monitors social media regarding their candidates, I wonder to what extent. Freshman
Gentrification at what costs?
What Story are you interested in telling? After consideration I decided to tell the story of gentrification. We all know it: Austin is in the midst of evolving into a bigger city and nothing will get in the way. Investors