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Building this final project has been difficult and rewarding – it has forced a new level of comfort with old skillsets and has catalyzed the learning of a few new tricks. Working with data was not something I would say I had

For my final project I decided to follow the question “Does the growth of SXSW positively correlate with an increase in crime rates during the month of March?” I first began by collecting crime data from the Austin, TX data

Voila, my project, Austin Venues Though this project proved to be difficult, I frankly became enamored with the subject. I find nostalgia to be utterly fascinating so naturally Austin is the perfect place to study this phenomenon. The study is

My project, Does Austin Have “Live Music Capital of the World” Resources, proved to be tricky. During the project, I had issues with scraping the business listings on the Texas Music Office‘s website due to the fact that they weren’t

As a military photojournalist, we have a saying, “Semper Gumby”, which means “always flexible.” We adhere to this principle simply due to the fact that the story you want to tell is not necessarily the story that you tell. For

So for this project it seems to be turning more into an informational buzzfeed quiz. The app will start with allowing the user to either take a quiz or look at a profile of the top bars in Austin. On

For the Google API and Chart.js I decided to look at two separate mix drink beverage tax revenue data sheets to see the difference between February and March in ten or five top bars in Austin. This is to help

I used the data from the past five years on the number of EMS Ambulance Responses from the months of March during SXSW. The first, Chart.js was easy to use and I liked that in the line chart it had actual

With the amount of festivals popping up in all corners of the state, I decided to create concrete visual of where to find them. I found the data from Find Festival and mapped it out on a map using the Google API. The

So for my graphing endeavor, I decided to use partial information from my final project as the data for this project. I collected information from the Texas Music Office for resources available to artists in Austin and Dallas and compared