by Siân Tattersall | Jul 26, 2021 | Blog, Data Science
Building tools that meet the cultural sector’s desire for greater data collaboration and benchmarking Author: John Knell When the Impact & Insight Toolkit launched, we asked National Portfolio Organisations (NPOs) registering for the Toolkit to identify...
by Marc Dunford | Jun 23, 2021 | Blog, Data Science
Last year we created an Online Works evaluation template and made it available to Toolkit users. This template was designed by Counting What Counts (CWC), in cooperation with Arts Council (ACE) and industry peers, in order to support organisations which have shifted...
by Marc Dunford | Mar 17, 2021 | Blog, Data Science
Using the Toolkit, organisations can ‘tag’ their evaluations to indicate the type of work that has been evaluated. We often refer to this as ‘adding evaluation properties’. These tags can represent a number of important contextual points such as the artform, the...
by Marc Dunford | Feb 25, 2021 | Blog, Data Science
It is good data science practice to visualise and explore your data before trying to answer specific research questions. Doing this exploration will inform your methods and identify potential pitfalls which could lead us to the wrong conclusions later on. It may also...
by Marc Dunford | Jan 26, 2021 | Blog, Data Science
The goal of our data focused blogposts is to share and explain data methods used in the Toolkit and the insights we find as a result of research. Most of the content here will be written by me (Marc) as the lead analyst and data scientist for the Toolkit. I...
by admin | Feb 26, 2019 | Case Studies, Data Science
‘One event is interesting, after two or three you start to see a trend’- Jeanette Edgar, Lakeland Arts In theory at least, as with other big data applications, the more data points an organisation starts to generate over a given period, both in terms of the range of...