The code repository for the project, albeit empty, is located here:
The Meta-Problem
I am studying data visualization techniques, because I want to find out how data can be better represented visually and interactively, in order to develop web based data tools and techniques which help ordinary users infer broader patterns and deeper meaning from large datasets.
A Practical Application
To provide a data basis for this project, I’m studying digital music consumption patterns, with the goal of finding out how new technologies are shaping the modern listening experience, in order to help my reader better predict the emerging technologies which are most relevant to artists and the music industry.
Some links for preliminary research on data visualization and data journalism:
Data journalism pt1: Finding data (draft – comments invited) | Online Journalism Blog. (n.d.). . Retrieved October 5, 2010, from http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2010/04/21/data-journalism-pt1-finding-data-draft-comments-invited/
Google Reader – datajbundle. (n.d.). . Retrieved October 5, 2010, from http://www.google.com/reader/bundle/user%2F12323076578145270806%2Fbundle%2Fdatajbundle
How to be a data journalist | News | guardian.co.uk. (n.d.). . Retrieved October 5, 2010, from http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/oct/01/data-journalism-how-to-guide
Journalism in the Age of Data: A Film | Brain Pickings. (n.d.). . Retrieved October 5, 2010, from http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2010/09/29/geoff-mcghee-data-journalism/
Many Eyes. (n.d.). . Retrieved October 5, 2010, from http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/
visualizing.org. (n.d.). . Retrieved October 5, 2010, from http://www.visualizing.org/
