Within the music education world, nothing quite solidifies a budding artist’s performance better than an All-State seat. It’s an obsessive goal that opens many doors for future performance opportunities and talent development. It should also be known that these performers
#SMTXFlood
Sorry this is so late, but I had some trouble with the Twitter data I pulled and saved. For this project I looked at the #SMTXFlood hashtag on Twitter. As you all probably know, San Marcos was once again affected
Twitter API Project
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
Black or Blue? The kneejerk response to the #BlackLivesMatter campaign
In the wake of the September Fox Lake shooting, the #BlackLivesMatter campaign has drawn heavy fire, coming under the blame as signs point to it as a primary motivator in the shooting of Officer Joe Gliniewicz. Both the original hashtag – brought
Kick the dust up…
So my Project 3 is on the CMA awards. I used the twitter API to gather around 700 tweets from today. I then used the word script to pull the most popular words used for each tweet. I created a
Twitter API Project
I did my API project using #Zildjian and #Sabian. Zildjian and Sabian are two of the top cymbal brands. I scanned the tweets to find what other drum gear drummers who use the cymbal brands play. For instance I
Drilling the API

In my web development class my professor once showed me a video demonstrating the most mentioned artists on twitter during the MTV Music Awards. Well now by me being able to dig into the Twitter API myself, I shows that
What’s up with country music?
For this twitter API project chose to gather tweets with “country music.” Its fitting because tonight (11/4) is the Country Music Awards and it seems like people dismiss country music overall. Honestly it makes sense to me, all the new
API project
I really wanted to make a heat map that showed where people were talking about the return of Starbucks’ red cups. I think the information is a little inaccurate because of the lack of people who use their location services
#firstworldproblems
I decided to take tweets with the search term #firstworldproblems and turn that into my data project. We all know what first world problems are and we all have them. Like when we’re coding and we can’t figure out why