Author: jnm107

My final project was look into Austin’s Art in Public Places program. The specific aspects I explored were the means of funding for the program and the process of deciding who should make the art and where it should be placed.

My final project is a dive into Austin’s Art in Public Places (AIPP) program. I had an interview yesterday with one of the program coordinators. I went in with the idea of doing a story that centered primarily on the

As we were assigned, I have been playing with various charting tools using the data I will be using for the final project. I made a practice site to try to embed multiple visualizations on one page. Each of the

For my project, which can be seen here, I decided to work with some Twitter data about a show I’ve recently become obsessed with: RuPaul’s Drag Race. One of the most intriguing aspects of the show for me has been

Reading through this week’s assigned chapter in the Data Journalism Handbook was an interesting, at times overwhelming experience. I found myself wondering, primarily, where all the journalists that are talked about throughout the reading find the interesting data that they

The dataset I used for this is from the city of Austin’s data databse. It charts the wifi usage in the branch’s of the public library throughout Austin. As I was looking over the data I realized that there is,

The adjunctification of American universities has been the subject of a lot of talk. For my project I’m interested in doing an exploration of this phenomenon in one specific university and do interviews that might begin to capture the campus

As a person with a streak or two of paranoia in his personality, I was struck by this example from the handbook. I was also fascinated by how much insight could be gleaned into a person’s life from bits of

As part of SXTXState I’m a joint social media manager. I guess I’ve just got social media on the brain because my after giving some thought to what I wanted to make for our first assignment I settled on a

Hello! My name is Josh, not Jim, Morrison. I’m a second semester graduate student in the Mass Communication MA program here at Texas State University. My home is in Austin and having lived there for almost six months I’m still a relative