Voila, my project, Austin Venues Though this project proved to be difficult, I frankly became enamored with the subject. I find nostalgia to be utterly fascinating so naturally Austin is the perfect place to study this phenomenon. The study is
Texas Music Festival
With the amount of festivals popping up in all corners of the state, I decided to create concrete visual of where to find them. I found the data from Find Festival and mapped it out on a map using the Google API. The
Chvrches The Band
SXSW brings a plethora of bands from obscurity to stardom. Among these bands is Chvrches who got their start at the festival and have continued their wave of success passing through every major event. For this project I wanted to
Gentrification at what costs?
What Story are you interested in telling? After consideration I decided to tell the story of gentrification. We all know it: Austin is in the midst of evolving into a bigger city and nothing will get in the way. Investors
Deliviring Data
Upon reading Data Journalism’s How To Deliver Data one thing became clear: humans have an incredible short attention span. We can no longer receive visuals without loosing interests or just receive visuals without texts to engage us. Blame it on the zeitgeist,
Music Origin
As an idea for my music project I would like to see an application that analyzes people’s individual music playlist based on birth year. I was influenced by the NY Times’ “How Birth Year Influences Political Views” This data analyzes both
What did Kanye Say?
We all know Kanye West and his infamous opinion on just about everything. But how on earth do you keep up with all of his opinions? Enter Kanye’s world. A collection database where one may choose from a dropdown box,
Data Storytelling
A story without facts is difficult to believe and facts without a story is difficult to relate. Combining both to both teach and give you insight is rather a beautiful thing. Data journalism has given us a tool that allows us
The World According to Data
Hello everyone. I am Stephania Lara and I am a first year Merchandising and Consumer Studies graduate student. I graduated last May from Texas State with a public relations major and decided to stick it out a couple more years. My