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Identifying Peer Regions

Selecting peer regions to which to compare your region’s creative economic growth can be a daunting task. The first step to identifying a peer region is to determine what your... read more →
  • July 23, 2018
  • Natalie Villa
  • Data Education
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CVSuite Data Dives – Identifying Trends

CVSuite™ Data Dives are designed to help those using the CVSuite online data tool explore and put to work the wide array of data in the tool. This month’s Data... read more →
  • May 15, 2018
  • Natalie Villa
  • Data Dives, Data Education

CVSuite Data Dives: The Creative Vitality Index Explained

CVSuite™ Data Dives is our newest initiative to help users explore the wide array of data in the tool and illustrate ways to tell a data-driven story. This month, the... read more →
  • April 9, 2018
  • Natalie Villa
  • Data Dives, Data Education

Creative Industries: Bigger than One Number

Our vision for the CVSuite blog is that it serve as a place to present original material. Now and again; however, an item comes to our attention that we think... read more →
  • August 17, 2016
  • paul.nguyen@westaf.org
  • Creative Economy, Data Education, Data Quality, Data Sets

Tips to Guide Your Data Storytelling

On June 21st, CVSuite wrapped up it’s Art of Data, 3 part webinar series. In the final webinar, Presenting Data: Crafting Compelling Stories with Data, Arts Consultant, Chris D’Arcy and... read more →
  • July 8, 2016
  • paul.nguyen@westaf.org
  • Data Education

Data Can Confuse as Well as Enlighten

In late August, New York Times Magazine writer Steven Johnson authored an article titled “The Creative Apocalypse That Wasn’t.” The article made the point that, in spite of fears about... read more →
  • October 22, 2015
  • paul.nguyen@westaf.org
  • Creative Economy, Data Education, Data Quality, Data Sets

Using Location Quotient to Measure Creative Economy

When taking on the--sometimes difficult--task of quantifying an area’s creative economy, you will want access to every tool at your disposal. One useful tool is location quotient (LQ) data. The... read more →
  • September 11, 2015
  • paul.nguyen@westaf.org
  • Creative Economy, Data Education, Data Quality, Data Sets

Data and Reporting available in CVSuite™

The Creative Vitality™ Suite is a powerful tool, containing data that has many potential uses. The online tool offers a few different ways to download data. #1 Regional Snapshot PDF... read more →
  • September 4, 2015
  • paul.nguyen@westaf.org
  • Creative Economy, Data Education, Data Quality, Data Sets

Counting the Self-employed in Your Creative Economy – Creative Occupations in the Gig Economy

Not many people would be surprised that the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) general category of arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations contains the highest concentration of self-employed workers... read more →
  • May 28, 2015
  • paul.nguyen@westaf.org
  • Creative Economy, Data Education, Data Quality, Data Sets
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