Big data: supportive, straightjacket or shambles? Richard Fletcher, De Montfort University Arts...

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Big data: supportive, straightjacket or shambles?

Richard Fletcher, De Montfort University

Arts & Festivals Management

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Shameless self promotion Discussion papers:

Five capitals for festivals: integrated reporting of economic, social and environmental impacts

(2013) Fletcher, R

The Buxton Festival Lifecycle: towards an organisational development model for festivals

(2013) Jordan, J,

Available free from : bit.ly/16Oeg5

Coming soon: CEU Budapest/European Festivals Research Project:

“Festivals in Focus: essays in tribute to Dr Dragan Klaic”

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This session

Big data in general

3 projects UK Music “Wish you were here” Creative Leicestershire “Arts Resilience

Programme” Leicester UK City of Culture – Evaluation &

Research element

A festival research database?

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Technology alone is not the answer Technology gives us more data, but not

always the capacity to do anything useful with it.

We struggle with relatively limited data already, why on earth would we want more of it?

Big Data: the three V’s Volume Variety Velocity

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Patchy data

Festival data

Demographics

Motivations

AwarenessAttendance

Behaviour

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Patchy data

Festival data

Demographics

Motivations

AwarenessAttendance

Behaviour

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UK Music – Wish you were here

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Creative Leicestershire – Arts Resilience Programme

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Leicester – UK City of Culture bid

Winner to be announced - November 20th

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3 V’s Big Data: the three V’s

Volume Variety Velocity

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A Festival Research Database

Using what already exists and is underused Scalable from small to large Taking the legwork out – up and down the

chain A mutual resource – you give, you get Holistic – ‘impact agnostic’ Could be a trailblazer for other cultural

research

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And finally - etymology

“Resilience”

1620s, "act of rebounding," from Latin resiliens, present participle of resilire "to rebound, recoil," from re- "back" (see re-) + salire "to jump, leap" (see salient (adj.)). Cf. result (v.). Meaning "elasticity" is from 1824.

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