This is a placeholder draft post that will later be about the story of how I assembled and utilized data for one of my stories. In this case, I’m digging into my process of collecting and organizing meaningful Black names, whether that’s from scraping Wikipedia pages or studying the US Census.
Read moreStory Data Story One: Ideas Masterlist
This is the first of several posts covering the story of how I assemble and utilize data for creative projects. In this case, I’ll look at the spreadsheet where I store the data of prospective, in-progress, and on-submission stories and ideas.
Most of my professional content will be hosted on my GitHub portfolio but I thought my blog was as good a place as any to practice a bit of data storytelling!
Story Research Introduction: I Love Spreadsheets!
I aim to share a few data storytelling posts here in the future to explain some of the more complex spreadsheets I’ve created, but I want to introduce this career transition by sharing images of some of my earliest worldbuilding spreadsheets (dating from roughly 2005~2011). It’s from a project where people can enter dreams a la Paprika or Inception. I won’t be sharing more information than that, but if you’re like me, the data itself will pique your interest and inspire your imagination.
Read moreStory Data Story: Literary Magazine Rankings
This is the final placeholder post that may later be about the process/story of how I assembled and utilized data for one of my creative projects—in this case, the spreadsheets where I rank literary magazines according to who they published, how often they publish award-winning work, and other information.
Read moreStory Data Story: Chocolate Cities
This is the final placeholder post that may later be about the process/story of how I assembled and utilized data for one of my creative projects—in this case, the spreadsheets where I rank literary magazines according to who they published, how often they publish award-winning work, and other information.
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