Author: Melanie Morales

By Melanie Morales This project focused in on the Texas State data specifically with the College and Science and Engineering and relating it to the STEM program. STEM is the studies in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics and I was

By Melanie Morales Here is my late post of shame that I’ve had in my binder since Blue Host Gate. My ideas have changed a bit since drawing it. I’ve decided to focus on the College of Science and Engineering and

By Melanie Morales For the third assignment, I pulled data from Institutional Research at Texas State University. I focused on the master’s level in the following areas: degrees award enrollment number of programs Texas region I used the various charts

By Melanie Morales The iHeart Radio Music Awards celebrated their third annual showcase on Sunday, April 3, 2016. The timing of this was convenient to gather some recent data for this assignment. It was either this or Donald Trump and

By Melanie Morales The chapter was insightful and though it didn’t scream super-surprising things at me, it stated what we need to know as novice data journalists and puts it into perspective the unique elements that data storytelling should have.

By Melanie Morales I found this data on Texas State’s Institutional Research website. The pivot table contains a lot of data and makes it easy to sort and create your own. I pulled the enrollment data over the existing years

Hello! It’s me…talking about Jesus again. In one of the data journalism readings, it advised users to get data that people really care about and will continue to care about after the story “ends.” Religion, church…JESUS are all things that

By Melanie Morales The two most interesting case studies to me were the Hospital Billing and Illinois Report Cards. The hospital billing, though prompted by a scam, could also be used to track illnesses and diagnosis in other ways as

By Melanie Morales I’m back with a couple new ideas for the first project. I feel like my first idea is going to be better suited for Project 3 because I would like to use the charts to supplement it. Therefore

Greetings from the other side (of the screen)! My name is Melanie Morales and I’m in my first year of graduate school. I received my undergraduate degree from the great Texas State in 2010 and now I’m back for more.