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My name is Christopher Garza, a Texas State Undergraduate, an advertising major with a minor in creative writing. So data journalism, huh? What is it to me? Well, I love telling stories and especially listening to or reading new ones.

I decided to find an interactive way to show the data gathered by the Snapple research class during the fall semester. Through the data I found that Snapple lacks a strong online presence. Their television ads don’t show a positive

    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

     Hi y’all! For my final project, I used the data from the Texas Music Office’s website to create a site that would focus specifically on Grammy-winning musicians in Texas. I used a really clean Bootstrap template called Business

For my final project I scraped Yelp for the top ten restaurants, coffee shops, and music venues in an attempt to create a way for the user to generate a random location to go to. I used a random array

I did my final project on ACL Festival. I spent weeks compiling data on all the lineups of the 14 years of the festival entering data on where each band was from and their genres. I scraped wikipedia’s ACL Festival

Finally! It’s finished. My project is all about how music correlates with working out and the brain. I used bootstrap, many charts and jquery to create this page. I did something really cool with jquery, an interactive brain. You can

Wow, I can’t believe the semester flew by! Time flies when you’re having fun:D So, I did my Final Project on Crime During SxSW. I would have to say that the hardest part of this wasn’t so much putting everything

This was a tough project to complete. By the end, it was hard to even look at but I worked really hard on it and I’m proud of what I made. I had a lot of problems with scripts. Something