Lots of blogs still have sad, neglected little sections exhorting people to “Leave a Reply. Want to join the discussion? Feel free to contribute!” at the end of each post, even thought all the conversation’s (mostly) long since moved on to other places. So if you do go to the bother of paying attention to what someone’s […]
Category Archives: Analytics
Declining search interest in off-West End theatres
I’m just throwing this here as it came up when I was looking at something else. Here are the Google Trends results for a handful of off-West End theatres. I can tell what a couple of the recent spikes are. The recent BAC (red) one will have been the fire. The Donmar (green) one must’ve been […]
The problem with big data and the arts
‘Big data’ describes the increasing volume and detail of information available to organisations, companies and individuals. In the context of arts organisations, think of the amount of data generated by or contained within web analytics, CRM systems, social media and digitised archives. There’s a lot of talk going round about how this data may be […]