Just a quick(isn) one, for fun. Yesterday, Culture24‘s Jane Finnis wrote a piece for the Guardian’s Culture Professionals Network called Why your cultural website is rubbish. I was going to leave a comment, but it got a bit long, so I’m posting this here instead. For

Firstly, if you’ve been following this arts/big data series then apologies for the brief hiatus – life got in the way. The good news is that you’ll have had a chance to catch up on all the reading material in the link dump of articles, blog posts and

This week I’m blogging about big data in the arts and culture sector (see the intro to the series here). In this post, I’m going to take a look at what’s been written so far. I’m collecting links on Delicious and will probably add more to

This week I’m going to write a post a day about how Big Data is relevant to the arts and culture sector. Data seems to be flavour of the month in the cultural sector, with the recent announcement of funding for research into the arts and Big Data, the

That’s a map of London, made by plotting the location of tweets from different mobile devices. Via Twitter + GNIP. Arts/digital links Phil Thompson took screenshots of paintings that had been blurred out on the Google Art Project website due to copyright reasons. He sent those to oil painting

NYLPT: Randomly generated sequences of Jason Evans’s street photographs collected in New York, London, Paris and Tokyo – double exposures made in camera on film – are combined with a randomly evolving soundtrack generated through a combination of 17 synthesizers. Arts, digital, etc Yet again, more interesting stuff from job descriptions.

For this post in the Arts Analytics series, I wanted to see how much effort arts organisations are putting into the performance of their websites. For this I just looked at homepages and asked the following: 1. How big are those pages? 2. How quickly do they load? 3. How

Have a play with the Google Street View Hyperlapse if you’ve not already, or at least watch the video. It’s great. Arts, digital, etc The Digital Public Library of America is ‘a platform’. Nymbol connects digital content like text, photos and videos with physical objects and places. Could

Arts organisations are increasingly producing (or being pushed by funders to produce) more and more professional video content. For the next post in the Arts Analytics series I’m looking at how some of the larger funded organisations are using YouTube. Findings * I found YouTube channels for 97 of the

Photo by Pete Prodoehl. Easily the best thing I read over the past month was Megan Gardner’s article for The Atlantic, A Brief History of Applause, the ‘Big Data’ of the Ancient World. It’s all quite interesting stuff but the reframing of social sharing is very neatly done.