Hello Class! For the Charting exercises I chose to work with SXSW Attendance as my data. The numbers came from the Official SXSW Statistics that they post every year after the festival. I made my charts on all three platforms from
Final Project Brainstorming
Hello class! For the the final project I would really like to focus on using data from social media. I think it would be best to focus on Twitter (because we have spent some time learning how to really use
Trei Brundrett, Vox Media
Trei Brundrett from Vox Media was the first speaker I attended during Mass Comm Week 2014 and I’m glad I did. Vox Media is an online publisher that has various websites under it’s belt including: The Verge, SB Nation, Polygon , Eater
Austin Mahone Tweet Map
For Assignment 2 I decided to stick with our Texas music tweets, but switch it up a bit. I chose to maps tweets about the singer Austin Mahone who is orginally from San Antonio. He’s what I like to call
Top 4 Genres College Spotify Users Listen To
For my project I decided to go with the Study that Cindy shared on Facebook, the Spotify and Echo Nest joint “Top 40 Musical Univerisities in America: How Students Listen”. This study has various parts to it, so I chose
Case Studies Post
Of the case studies in the Data Journalism Handbook, I found most interesting the Citizen Data Reporter. I find it very cool that data journalism can help smaller communities. I think that usually when people think Data Journalism they think
Hello classmates!
Nice to (re)meet everyone. My name is Virginia Alves and I’m a Mass Communication – Public Relations student with a French Minor and I am currently a communications intern at AARP Texas in Austin. I was born in Brazil but