Author: Jordon Brown

My final project, Airbnb During SXSW, attempts to answer the question of just exactly how much Airbnb prices increase during SXSW. It turns out, a bunch. Basically, when SXSW rolls around, Airbnb’s go up 155%. I got my data from

I’ve always enjoyed the visual components to news; it’s one of the main reasons I wanted to go to conferences like NICAR and ISOJ this year. Learning how to add visual components with charting has been a really rewarding experience.

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

I really like the idea of exploring the data that Trei and Skip talked about last week in terms of Airbnb and how much money is being driven into Austin during festivals. Although Airbnb has ignored my requests for data,

As other people have noted, the largest takeaway from the Delivering Data chapter is the need to deliver data quickly, clearly, and with a concise story. I think that what Scott Klein had to say about news apps was very

With the NICAR conference still fresh on my mind (albeit, the conference turned my brain to mush, so maybe not the best time to rely on it), it feels like it would be a criminal act to not use some

We all know and love Buzzfeed quizzes. Some of us may lie about it, but we all love them. One of my biggest passion areas is Tolkien and the Lord of the Rings, so I’ve been working on a fun/playful

As was probably evident from my first post, I adore data journalism. My favorite of the case studies was the Wikileaks piece. It may be my bias towards Simon Rogers, but I thought his breakdown of IED attacks in Afghanistan