How much from your paycheck can you use for entertainment, eating out and just plain fun? Fun Money is your personal finance machine that helps you stay in your budget with the punch of a few numbers. Let Fun Money
SXSW Panel Recommender App
This can be a very simple app, drawing from only a handful of panels, or could obviously get very complex and multi-layered. The basic premise is to use a simple quiz format that returns panel recommendations at SXSW Interactive based
Assignment Flow Chart???
For this weeks assignment, I created a logic chart for my project, which is a daily fortune web-app. Here is the flow chart. this project will take you through a few steps, then provide you with your daily fortune.
Data Journalism at its finest
Interesting data visualizations and storytelling: “… there’s a good case for saying this made the war the most documented in history.” That really stood out to me while reading the case study over the Wikileaks article in this chapter. It
Visualize it
Interactive data has been able to give the public a new source of better entertainment through knowledge and keen design. My favorite interactive data visual was the Opportunity Gap. Education that is at its best quality for all is an
The Best Viz
As was probably evident from my first post, I adore data journalism. My favorite of the case studies was the Wikileaks piece. It may be my bias towards Simon Rogers, but I thought his breakdown of IED attacks in Afghanistan
Making it Clear
Wikileaks war logs One of the greatest benefits and loftiest goals of data visualizations are that they make clear issues or events that can be overwhelming or difficult to understand. Nothing can be more overwhelming or difficult to grasp for the
Telling a Story with Data
From The Case Studies The case study I was most interested in was the Hospital Billing case study. The data set analyzed the amount of up-coding that happened in Medicare billing. The reason why this interested me so much is because
Data Storytelling
A story without facts is difficult to believe and facts without a story is difficult to relate. Combining both to both teach and give you insight is rather a beautiful thing. Data journalism has given us a tool that allows us
Data Storytelling
Which of these did you find most interesting? Why? Of the case studies that I read and analyzed, the one I found to be the most interesting was Data in the News: Wikileaks. Using spreadsheet data obtained from WikiLeaks war