Author: Elizabeth Sanders

We decided to focus our Texas music project on a handful of Austin music venues and their relationships with performing artists: how much on average does each venue pay performing artists? how is this pay determined? what type of payment,

I thought it would be fun for the project to do some kind of analysis of venues in Austin. Perhaps I can see how many venues there are total that host live shows and then break them down into categories

I would have to say by far I liked the Google Charts the best. I made a pie chart for attendance of SXSW 2013 broken down by events. At first I calculated all the percentages, but then I realized it

A little late but here is my Tweet Map! I decided to do my map over Lana Del Rey tweets! She was a recent artist at ACL and had an album come out this year. Also, I did because she’s

This presentation was interesting for me because I’m a journalism student, but I’m not sure if I will end up working as a traditional reporter. Stacie Chan gave of one example of a relevant journalism job that is also tech

I couldn’t make it to the presentation on Monday, so instead I’m writing about another relevant presentation by Adam Hermsdorfer of BigTuna Interactive on Website Optimization. Might be cool since not everyone got to see this one! So, BigTuna Interactive

As I’ve probably expressed to some of you in the class, Twitter is my favorite social media platform. Twitter gives us a chance to openly seek information we choose to read and people like ourselves. I feel Twitter is also

Had a lot of fun making this chart! It’s the same data I discussed in the previous blog, so go ahead and check out my Music Data Chart! I’m pretty happy with the design. At least, it’s probably my favorite

Austin Music Festivals– Austin is known as the Music Capital of the World, but exactly how are those standards set in relation to how much music affects our community. Even though our largest music festivals do not focus on the

Data journalism to me is basically interpreting large amounts of data to tell a story. This is important to journalism because interpreting data is a skill that the general public may not be able to do/have time to do. Our