After spending time in over a dozen countries spread across four continents, my interest in world events has exploded into my need to write, explore and share news as a multimedia journalist/reporter. I'll be studying at UF for the next year and a half, practicing and reporting news from North Central Florida. This blog will provide news as well as chronicle my real progress - unlike a portfolio - with multimedia news. Click pic for bio.
Today’s Headline
Historic Haile Homestead at Kanapaha Plantation
On May 2, 1986, the house was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. As described on the Haile Homestead site: In 1854 Thomas Evans and Serena Chesnut Haile moved their family from Camden, South Carolina to Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida. It is there they established a 1500-acre Sea Island cotton plantation they named Kanapaha. Completed in 1856 by enslaved craftsmen, the 6,200 square foot homestead stands today as one of … [Read More...]
Infographics
Florida State Parks/Rec Areas
This is going to be a growing map with attached content dealing with parks within a 100-mile radius of Gainesville. Right now, you see every state park, basic information and park land boundary. The map was made using Google Fusion.
Google Fusion gives geographical perspective to data
Escambia County Schools Data provided by Florida Department of Education © 2012 Map created by Kéran Billaud Google Fusion. Over this past summer, I discovered it. Today, I explored it. Remember the name. It is quickly becoming the Internet’s most popular way to map statistics and geographic data on actual interactive maps. Today was the first [...]
Bright forecast for data-journalism
What you see above is a line graph representation of Sacramento International Airport’s daily high temperature reports from 2010. What the eye can’t see is the process that goes into making a relatively simple looking graph like the one above. The technique of gathering data from multiple web pages with a code is called “data-scraping.” [...]