Would you like an update on our Data Journey? CG’s data guru Alan Inman Ward shares his insights into where we are now and where we are heading. Read on!

Welcome to Lucy J Turner, the newest member of the CG team who is our artist in residence on the Healthy Communities Together Co-Lab programme.

Image alt-text: Co-lab participants Alan, Kia and Sophie in a lively discussion.

Dr Alex Waldrop was our “keynote listener” at glosdataday. She dedicated her time on the day to listening. She heard what was being talked about, she noticed who was there and who wasn’t and she took notice so that she could give all those voices the opportunity to be heard. After a day of dropping into workshops and joining open space sessions Alex presented back to the room. This is what she heard:

But we knew it was important and we had a strong desire to make it happen!

Create Gloucestershire were one of the four partners who came together to host the dataday. Back in the Autumn of last year we began conversations to imagine this event. It was going to be unashamedly about data and it was going to inspire, inform and empower everyone who came along. That was the plan.

How do we combine data and creativity to develop a data driven culture with a difference? Over the past six-months we have had a fresh look at how we capture and use data; asking ourselves a range of challenging questions. Read on to find out more.

Join Create Gloucestershire for this hands-on lab exploring where data and art meet. 

Are you an artist interested in how data might shape your creations? Or do you work with data, and want to explore how to look at it in new ways? We want you to join us and get creative though team projects to discover, explore and represent data about the cultural education landscape in Gloucestershire. 

Join Create Gloucestershire for this hands-on lab exploring where data and art meet. 

Are you an artist interested in how data might shape your creations? Or do you work with data, and want to explore how to look at it in new ways? We want you to join us and get creative though team projects to discover, explore and represent data about the cultural education landscape in Gloucestershire. 

As CG explores the use of data to support arts engagement in schools, we will signpost a range of datasets you might find useful when planning new projects or longer-term strategies.

First up: school data. 

As Create Gloucestershire delves more deeply into data and how it can support innovation and collaboration in the arts and cultural sector, we are delighted to welcome Tim Davies as a Digital Catalyst to our team.   

This post explores the many different relationships between data and art, and introduces out plans for a data-art hack event later this spring.

February Update from Pippa Jones

The Ancient Mariner in Coleridge's poem is marooned on the ocean and tortured as he sees "water, water everywhere" but none of it water that he can drink. 

Data feels a bit the same to me at the moment - it’s everywhere - big data, data breaches, data savvy, data rich, data poor and of course data protection.