At the beginning I skimmed through the Delivering Data chapter to find ideas about what kind of data can be manipulated for music in Austin. Next I looked through many of the different databases that our wonderful professor gave us.
Deliviring Data
Upon reading Data Journalism’s How To Deliver Data one thing became clear: humans have an incredible short attention span. We can no longer receive visuals without loosing interests or just receive visuals without texts to engage us. Blame it on the zeitgeist,
Delivering Deliberate Data
So my main takeaway from the Delivering Data section of the Data Journalism Handbook is that news with a data component to it needs to be relevant and engaging. The data needs to tell a story. A story that the
Bands and Genres and Hashtags, #OhMy
So, for my final project, I would like to attempt to look at Texas bands and artists by genre and use a Twitter API to pull out their most frequently used hashtags. The questions I’m looking to answer is does
Matching Music and Personality
For my music app idea, I want to users to be able to match their personality with a specific genre of music. Taking the form of a survey, respondents would be able to answer a series of question about their
Music where are you?
For one of our app projects finding where are friends or fellow twetters are jamming out at in Austin could help a user locate a concert they want to go to. One way could be using dots to show each
History from Spotify
For my music app idea, I played around with the Web API offered by Spotify , they allow access to artists’ history, followers, popularity and so on. I thought it would be interesting to have an interactive visualization with clickable genres
Where is the Rock Music in Austin?
During a conversation with Adelitas Way front man, Rick DeJesus, he explained why major rock and metal groups stay away from Austin. “Austin is just not a Rock n Roll town,” said Dejesus. With that in mind, my project would
Diversity in Austin’s Music Scene
As Austin undergoes shifts in the city’s industry and economic makeup, many stories have been written covering racial and ethnic changes that have been associated with these shifts. Lower income individuals and families are being forced out of the city as prices
Where The Wild Bands Are
With the NICAR conference still fresh on my mind (albeit, the conference turned my brain to mush, so maybe not the best time to rely on it), it feels like it would be a criminal act to not use some