Slideshow Gallery Critique

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/audioslideshow/2014/may/03/heroin-addiction-graham-macindoe-photography
-This link goes to the slideshow with audio. The slideshow was mostly just the pictures he took with his camera that he was describing in the beginning of the video. The audio was him saying how he got all of the pictures and which camera he used for each one, the lighting, and the methods he used for each and every picture. It wasn't really storytelling it was more of just background on the process instead of describing the background of the picture and the story behind it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpSzJjoOAMQ
-This link is the no audio slideshow and it was filled with fine art screen-savers. I found it very boring and there was no real story to it, seeing as how it was just a bunch of pictures

 http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/photos/gallery/collection/1#/carousel

-This link is the photo gallery one, it is just pictures like the no audio slideshow, and it was just as boring with no story.

All these are good but I found that the one with audio was more entertaining and kept me more focused on it. The ones with no audio are boring and don't tell a story so people would more than likely just get bored within the first few minutes and leave the video. Having things with audio is definitely the better route to take when making a slideshow or doing anything people would watch.  

http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/8229250/Press_Releases_

Data Vitalization: Word Cloud

This data visualization is a world cloud. To create it we used press releases that were sent to news seven from various towns across the state, and then put them into wordle. The most frequently used words are the largest and the smallest ones are the least used words.
As you can see DUI is a very frequently used word. The majority of press releases the station receives are about DUIs. One can also assume that theft is a common crime considering it's fairly large size.  Twenty three and twenty two are also pretty prevalent words, though I am am not sure what context they were used in. It could be that people between the ages of 22-23 commit the most crimes in this area. St. Johnsbury, Bristol, Brattleborro and Lyndonville are all towns with large representation in the word cloud. This could mean that the towns report a lot of crimes, that they just send out more press releases, or that people often are brought their after the crime. For example St. Johnsbury and Brattleborro both have barracks that are often used to hold drunk drivers until they sober up. The last large word is unknown. Unknown is a very common word in press release. A motive can be unknown, a person can be unknown, and a million other little details can be unknown.
   The word cloud is a actually a fairly useful data visualization tool. You can gain a lot of understanding from them. What you can't get from them is facts. There are statistics, so it wouldn't be useful if you were trying to determine exactly how many crimes happen in Brattleboro or how many people between the ages of 20 and 24 receive DUIs. It is very aesthetically pleasing though, which is an added bonus if your are using it on a blog or in a story, it catches the readers eye and therefor draws interest to what you are saying.

Data Critique

http://chartball.tumblr.com/

I picked this data visualization because I enjoy sports and I like to know all the in and outs with all of the professional level sports. I liked that this website had multiple different sports to look at, and all of the different ways they used data visualization. I didn't like how some of the charts were difficult to use.

Podcast Project

Would you rather, Lyndon State; Kaitlyn and Kendra Style.

 The reasoning behind deciding to do our podcast would you rather style, was because we thought it would be a lot of fun to ask ourselves random questions and then go out and ask others.

We looked up a lot of different questions to ask ourselves and others. We went up to VIC, above the theater to record our answers.

 We had a lot of fun with it and a lot of questions that were pretty difficult to answer. Some of the questions we asked were really difficult to answer not only for us but the others we interviewed. At the same time some of the questions we had were really easy to answer. In the end both the difficult and easy questions were fun to answer. It took us a little bit longer then we thought because of how much we talk.

 Once we finally got all of the questions answered, we walked around the school looking for people. We found a few people just passing through the halls, and then we ventured outside finding someone to ask. Our last two places were the Stevens Dining Hall, and the gymnasium.

 We interviewed about 6 people, and some of them just answered the question, while others explained their reasoning behind their choice.

 Once we got everyone's answers, we started our editing process. Once the editing process was over we listened to the podcast, and we realized how much fun we had.

 We had a really good time recording this, and we both came to the conclusion that we would have a lot of fun doing a podcast more often, or having our own radio show. With both of us being hyper a majority of the time, laughing at almost everything.

The both of us in a weekly podcast or radio show would be very entertaining for other people out there who are similar to us or at least understand us. If there was a podcast every week, we think that there would be a good amount of people who would listen to it. Starting with our family and friends, and eventually adding to the list with the friends of our friends.

Podcast

We decided to play the would you rather game, asking each other. Then we are going to walk around asking other people their answers. We decided to this because we thought it would be funny.