Author: Dominique Mercado

We are doneeeeeeeee! EMS during SXSW is complete (somewhat). This project was a bit difficult for me, mostly because I had two of my interviews fall through at the very last minute and they were a huge component of the

I used the data from the past five years on the number of EMS Ambulance Responses from the months of March during SXSW. The first, Chart.js was easy to use and I liked that in the line chart it had actual

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

What story are you interested in telling? I would like to investigate how low-income Austin musicians are achieving appropriate healthcare. Partnered with ATX Music, HAAM(Health Alliance for Austin Musicians) is a non-profit organization that provides musicians with affordable health care prevention and

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

For my music app idea, I played around with the Web API offered by Spotify , they allow access to artists’ history, followers, popularity and so on. I thought it would be interesting to have an interactive visualization with clickable genres

dnicholette.com/webapp.html Similar to the countdown to SXSW, the countdown to graduation will reveal the number of days until the first graduation ceremony begins. I also want a table to show up of all graduation ceremonies dates and times. I’m hoping

Interesting data visualizations and storytelling:   “… there’s a good case for saying this made the war the most documented in history.” That really stood out to me while reading the case study over the Wikileaks article in this chapter. It

Hello all, I’m Dominique Mercado, an undergrad graduating in May with a degree in public relations. I took webpub last semester with Dale Blasingame and absolutely loved it. It’s just a fun puzzle to me that I enjoy figuring out.