Author: Sara Shields

So originally I was going to do my final project on Colorado Ski Resorts/Mountains but I had just gotten back from Euphoria camping and music festival in Austin and was kind of in a music festival daze for the days

Most of the data I have gathered is of Colorado Ski Resorts terrain, expertise level, ratings for specific things, and more. I really like the stacked column chart I did because it shows the percentages of each mountain and where

The title is actually relevant to what I’ve turned into after digging into this assignment. I did this assignment over The Walking Dead because it’s one of my favorite shows. Since the Season Finale was this past Sunday on April 3,

The Delivering Data Chapter was very insightful on ways to present data. I have always said that beautiful visualizations are much more meaningful than words on a page. Even my example in a previous blog post for this class proved

I gathered a good amount of data from onthesnow.com by using the super magical ‘importhtml’ tool in Google Sheets. It was seriously so magical and awesome. Out of the good amount of data I gathered, I wanted to make a chart

Okay, I bet everyone was thinking my final project was going to be on animals. It still possibly could be.. But I’m going to live on the edge and try something different. Remember the ‘Is It Better to Rent or

How well do you know your school? Well this quiz will show you just how much school spirit and knowledge you have for Texas State. I have been at this school going on 5 years and used to be very involved

I found ‘Covering the Public Purse with OpenSpending.org’ to be the most interesting case study in the chapters of the Data Journalism handbook. I have always had an interest on where tax money is going, and this data visualization ‘Where