I was very excited to get this project done. I am a foodie at heart and love writing about food, so this project was perfect for me to express that love. Here’s the link. Of course, I most enjoyed writing
Fun with food
As you all probably know, I’m a bit of a foodie, so I loved finding all the San Marcos restaurant data and looking at trends in San Marcos. I used import.io for my data, which initially said it would take
Walking Dead Frequent Mentions
I did my project on The Walking Dead season 6 finale, which happened last Sunday night. I didn’t grab tweets from the night of, but I scraped tweets from midday on Monday, and people were still actively tweeting about the
Apps as a resource and a story
I really liked a quote from the third page of the section by Scott Klein at ProPublica: “It can help a reader understand their personal connection to a broad international phenomenon, and help them attach what they know to what
Library members/collections
I found this data set interesting as a person who loves to read and has a cynical view of how little others read. I was disappointed I did not find a data set like this that spanned a longer time
Wedding costs prioritization or bad habit expendatures
I had several ideas about what I want to do for a data journalism project. I wanted it to include something that I’m passionate about (i.e. food, nature, literature, cats, among other things). But I also have been dealing with
What kind of coffee are you?
Coffee quiz So, true to form, I decided to do my project coffee-related. Coffee is something ever-present in my life and something that I know a lot about. Plus, I think it’d be fun to put on my site, thecandiceskitchen.com.
The data behind the journalism, and vice versa
I’ll start by saying that the Eurozone Meltdown was my favorite data journalism case study we read about. I love the human element, and how the project incorporated data, not as the story itself, but to support the human one-on-one