Author: Travis Atkinson

    For this project I wanted to give a brief overview of the evolution of the Hip-Hop genre. I also did a survey of Texas State students to determine what their favorite genre’s and artists were. I was not

For the final project I want to do a feature on hip/hop music. I want to take a look at the genre on the national level before I focus on the different regional scenes in Texas. I’m not exactly sure

For this project I used the Echo Nest Api to find data on the top 100 artists in the Hip Hop genre. I wanted to see what regions of the country have the most artists and where the biggest concentrations

Here is the link to my API project. I would like to add more to it still, especially responsiveness. I had some trouble finding interesting data in the API but I thought this was an interesting difference in video game

Mike Cox spoke to students about how to succeed at a career in Media Relations Wednesday as part of Texas State University’s Mass Comm Week. Cox, a veteran journalist, has published over 20 books and is currently a writer for

I found data on data.austintexas.gov about restaurant inspection scores for Austin. There was a lot of data in this file! It had what must be every place that serves food in Austin and inspections scores going back four years. It was a

My favorite case study was the WikiLeaks war logs blog. I love stories that use maps and charts to tell a story about history or military statistics. To me maps are a very effective way of displaying a lot of information

For my web app project I want to do some sort of quiz. I’m not sure exactly what the contents of the quiz will be, but I will make use of the formail.php that we worked with earlier this month.

Data Journalism is a form of storytelling that incorporates the use of numbers, statistics, or other quantifiable information into the storytelling process. However, it is not simply stories that have numbers in them. I think traditional journalism is full of