Visualised. Our series of cultural sector data visualisations
A large part of our work (and one of the most fun bits) involves taking data and presenting it in ways that draw out useful insights and bring much needed clarity.
Most of the time we’re working with (often commercially) sensitive, proprietary data. So there’s not much chance of being able to share that work publicly.
However, these days there are plenty of places to get hold of publicly available cultural sector data.
Funding bodies like Arts Council England and the National Lottery Heritage Fund publish data about their grants. DCMS publish visitor numbers for the museums they sponsor.
A bit of searching around on repositories like data.world and GitHub will turn up other datasets, sometimes from individual institutions.
We also do our own data collection, either to support the projects we’re working on or just because we’re curious about something.
So through 2020 we’re going to start taking some of these datasets and creating simple visualisations. They might be useful. Hopefully they’ll be interesting.
Sometimes we might try and reveal stories with data, other times we’ll give something you can explore. We’ll also tell you which tools we used in case you’re interested in having a go yourself.
Here’s the list:
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