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The Future is Yesterday
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So every year or so the internet decides give traditional media a little makeover and it is not probably not done with the long term beautification project. All of our traditional joys and satisfactions that we were accustom to are now just a click away. Don’t believe me then just…
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The Message
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So when doing visualizations, you have to be mindful of what you are trying to tell your audience. Sure they may look cool to show off and get the reader’s attention, but they also have to a purpose or you will lose your audience now and potentially for the long-term.…
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Black Superman
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Up in the sky: it’s a bird, it’s a plane…no it’s change. It’s not some pale-skinned, Elvis hairdo wearing 1950’s drawn up image of what society should look up to. That is far from the case. It is an ebony-skinned, taper-fade wearing image of what is to come in America.…
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What you Working With
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Working with data is a completely different story for journalists (some pun intended). You do not have to talk to too many people to gather what you need. In addition to agencies that you could mail or go to in person to request information from, there are actually plenty of…
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Do you Understand the Data that is Coming out of my Mouth?
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This week’s discussion has been about understanding the data you have gathered to report it to the audience. The last few weeks have built around the look and feel of visualizations but what are they really telling us? Is it possible that the data can be faulty in in what…
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Social Media Love
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Recently I wrote an article about Pay 2 Play practices going on with local hip hop shows. It was written from a personal persepective and received some good feedback. So here are some pics I posted it on Facebook and decided to show some of the social media love I’ve…
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Data Journalism used in the Newsrooms
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The past few weeks in regards to data journalism there has only been mentions and predictions of how actual newsrooms would function with this new endeavor. Well this week, the readings have discussed how newsrooms actually look when applying data journalism as apart of their news cycle. The scenarios all…
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Testing Infographic
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So I looked up how to make an infographic online and came up with a few. Check them out, it’s just some stuff I played around with. NBA Career Comparison | Create Infographics
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Picture Me Coding: Big Data Visualizations
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For the past two weeks we have basically took the crash course into data journalism and may have more to go. In this current section of it, it focuses more on the visulizations that have appeared with the data which in a sense puts into visual everything that has…
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My Bittersweet Attitude on Pay2Play
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For the last few weeks or so I have been seeing posts regarding the practice of pay2play. I just wanna offer some insight from my personal view. I came to Central Texas in 04 to attend Texas State and graduated in 09. Around that time, San Marcos’ opportunities for hip…