For my final project I decided to follow the question “Does the growth of SXSW positively correlate with an increase in crime rates during the month of March?” I first began by collecting crime data from the Austin, TX data
Charting Work and Final Project
Working with charts has been one of my favorite projects thus far. I think it’s because we are getting into the nitty gritty of data and there is a lot you can do and learn. The first chart I worked
Where’s the word on Whataburger??
Whataburger’s social media presence is one of the best in the industry. They create top-notch, entertaining content that encourages constant interaction between the brand and it’s audience. Their tongue-in-cheek tweets are especially appealing to their mostly millennial. I used the
Where’d the money go?
What Story are you interested in telling? I’d like to know where the money form the music festivals held in Austin go. From everyone that we have heard speak it seems pretty clear that musicians make net to nothing, so
Handbook and Dataset
I particularly enjoyed this last chapter of our Data Journalism Handbook because it gave first-hand insight into data journalism projects and finding data sets. It made me feel a lot better that the struggled with finding data sets as much
Where are you listening to?
My inspiration for this project come from the New York Times dialect survey from 2013, on of the most successful data journalism examples we have seen. I would like to have users take a survey about their favorite types of
What Pluckers wing sauce are you?
For my app, I will create a quiz that asks personality-style questions and determines what Pluckers wing sauce the user is. There are 20 sauces total but I will be using 6 of the most popular. The quiz will
Data Storytelling
Out of all of the case studies in our recent Data Journalism Handbook chapter, I particularly liked The Eurozone Meltdown study. Being someone one with more of a traditional journalism background than data journalism, I am always interested in a
Bio and Insights
My name is Morgan and I’m a senior PR major at Texas State. I graduate in May and plan to go on to work in the non-profit or agency world. I haven’t had much experience with data journalism but I