Most in the arts field understand the ever-increasing importance of data for effective advancement of the arts. Newspapers and data-driven blogs such as Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight routinely reinforce that the age of “big data” is upon us, even in the arts. Reports of clairvoyant data predicting elections, crowd-sourced data lowering... read more →

Studies of the economic value of the arts and creative economy are rarely commissioned on an annual basis. Instead, they are commonly managed through one-time or periodic funding efforts. When this feature is combined with the fact that many studies of the same defined geographic area are rooted in the... read more →