Final Project link Austin music venue owners are difficult to contact, at least the ones we contacted. And when they are reached, it’s difficult to schedule (and have them stick to) an interview time and date. The same can
Charts and Final Project Pitch
Music Venues In Austin By District Highcharts was my favorite data visualization tool for this charting exercise because of its user and visual simplicity. The pie chart I created using this tool reflects my final project pitch. I would like
ACL and Lorde In Tweets
Google Map Despite Lorde’s popularity at this year’s ACL Festival, the 17-year-old New Zealander had few tweets about her performances. Finding tweets that used the words “ACL” and “Lorde” from users’ GPS-based locations proved to be difficult. The majority
Read All About It: Google News’ Stacie Chan’s Big Move
As a Stanford undergraduate, Google News’ Stacie Chan told Texas State students during this year’s Mass Comm Week that she dreamed of becoming a broadcast journalist for the Lakers. But as Chan completed multimedia assignments to satisfy requirements for her communications
The ‘Chorus’ Line: Vox Media’s Trei Brundrett
By Jordan Gass-Poore’ The mastermind behind Vox Media’s new platform “Chorus,” which has been touted as the future of content management, Trei Brundrett, discussed the company’s evolution during Texas State’s Mass Communication Week. “Chorus is not a CMS.” — Trei
To Tweet Or Not To Tweet
I’ll be honest: I only tweet when I’m forced to, either for work or school. I had to Google search whether or not AP Style capitalizes the “T” in tweet. I have another confession: I really can’t stand birds of
Chart-ing Texas’ Music Pioneers
Texas boasts a mighty long list of what it’s Texas Music Office calls “Texas Music Pioneers.” People from my favorite emo-extraordinaire Elliott Smith and the metaphorical fascist killing Woody Guthrie, to the woman who put the power in flower power,
Austin Music Data: Texas Music Pioneers Part One
The Texas Music Office provides an ongoing alphabetical list of “Texas Music Pioneers.” The list isn’t formatted properly, but it still helped answer my question: what cities do/did influential Texas musicians call home? I assumed (wrongly) that most would be
Case Studies: ‘Citizen Data Reporters’
The case study from the “Data Journalism Handbook” that I found most interesting was “Citizen Data Reporters.” This case study focused on two citizen journalists and the work they conducted that utilized simple data. The results from this case study
The Who, What, When, Where and Why of Data Journalism
Who: journalists What: data journalism When: present and future Where: Earth Why: “Our Stories Come As Code” (datajournalismhandbook.org) Data journalism doesn’t strip articles of its narrative, but releases it from its emotional confines. Data journalism can provide a clearer