In the last two posts we introduced Data Thistle’s What’s On data and our approach to working with it, and some of the complexities of the data. In this post we want to draw some attention to other projects that are using this large-scale cultural events data in novel ways to answer a variety of […]

We learned a lot from getting up close with the cultural events data from Data Thistle that we described in the previous blog post. One of the complexities of the data, which has an effect on the results of analyses undertaken with these data, is the difference between categories and tags. Events are assigned only […]

The overarching aim of this project is to get contemporary cultural events data into the hands of arts and humanities researchers. As part of this project, we have undertaken a case study using cultural events data supplied by our industry partners Data Thistle to ask some of our own research questions and to explore the […]