Author: Justen Andrews

      For our final project, we drew up a rough draft of the page we want to create. You can see some of the content we will be having but there are blank spaces that aren’t defined so below

Kinda like I had mentioned in class, I’ll run again through my idea for the format the final project can take as well as some areas of data collection or visualization opportunities for us to showcase. The site would consist

Originally, I wanted to explore whether or not the punk rock genre of music is still a present style in both the SXSW and ACL music scenes and look at how much people on Twitter were discussing the two and

It was great to have the opportunity to listen to Trei Brundrett (@clockwerks) during Texas State’s Mass Communications Week (@txstatemcweek).  He was there to discuss the interesting things happening with Vox Media’s multiple platforms and give us a bit of

I’ve been called a “Twitter Guru” by several friends and colleagues, but I have always figured that to mean: “You use Twitter more than I do.”  This is likely true, but I scoff since I am nowhere near old-man-on-a-mountain-top status.

I knew when I started with my data that I was taking a risk.  Selecting something that was as niche as Austin area video game cover bands (of which there are only a few), really did limit myself with the

When it comes to music – especially local music, I’m always out of the loop.  I’ve been listening to the same bands for longer than I would like to admit, and I don’t tend to participate in many concerts or

Out of the available readings, I found the case study that looked at the campaign focused on crowdsourcing the water utility bill data for residents in France to be notable.  Taking statistical information and displaying it in a way that can motivate