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  For my twitter API project I decided to collect data from NASA and SpaceX’s twitter pages. My original goal was to find out about a single event that occurred the week of 3/23-3/30 through the frequency of specific words in NASA’s

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

I did my project on The Walking Dead season 6 finale, which happened last Sunday night. I didn’t grab tweets from the night of, but I scraped tweets from midday on Monday, and people were still actively tweeting about the

For this Twitter API exercise I wanted to use a fun trending hashtag that popped up during the latest riff between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. When Bernie Sanders proposed a democratic debate with Hillary Clinton in New York, Clinton’s chief strategist

For my project, which can be seen here, I decided to work with some Twitter data about a show I’ve recently become obsessed with: RuPaul’s Drag Race. One of the most intriguing aspects of the show for me has been

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,

I really liked a quote from the third page of the section by Scott Klein at ProPublica: “It can help a reader understand their personal connection to a broad international phenomenon, and help them attach what they know to what

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.

The Delivering Data chapter of the Data Journalism Handbook offered really excellent insight into best practices for working with and delivering data products as a journalist. I appreciated finding out that even for seasoned data journalists, workflow with data begins

The major thing I took away from the chapter was when it talked about using data visualization to tell stories and gave examples of when it is appropriate to use data visualization. One of the first things listed was to