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Explore the complexities of utilizing big data in festival organization. Discuss implications, limitations, and potential solutions for effective data management. Learn about integrated reporting models, innovative projects, and the significance of a festival research database.
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Big data: supportive, straightjacket or shambles? Richard Fletcher, De Montfort University Arts & Festivals Management rfletcher@dmu.ac.uk @rfletch0
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 DraganKlaic” rfletcher@dmu.ac.uk - @rfletch0
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? rfletcher@dmu.ac.uk - @rfletch0
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 rfletcher@dmu.ac.uk - @rfletch0
Patchy data rfletcher@dmu.ac.uk
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UK Music – Wish you were here rfletcher@dmu.ac.uk - @rfletch0
Creative Leicestershire – Arts Resilience Programme rfletcher@dmu.ac.uk - @rfletch0
Leicester – UK City of Culture bid Winner to be announced - November 20th rfletcher@dmu.ac.uk - @rfletch0
3 V’s • Big Data: the three V’s • Volume • Variety • Velocity rfletcher@dmu.ac.uk - @rfletch0
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 rfletcher@dmu.ac.uk - @rfletch0
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. rfletcher@dmu.ac.uk - @rfletch0