Culture In Numbers open data workshop 18 Feb 2015

Culture In Numbers

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a

maker of patterns.

Godfrey Harold Hardy

Numbers In Culture

Narratives

DATA

Time

The Past

Analyse

The Future

Predict

The Present

Explain

Focus

What

Why

How

Depth

Methods

Correlation

Causation

Take a data set

CateringMeals soldDrinks sold

Ingredients bought

ShopPostcards sold

Gifts soldItems bought

GalleryFootfall per room

Loiter timeArtefacts on display

EntrancePeople entering

Guides soldComplaints made

Make a story

TimeFocus

Methods

Tell us a story

But...

Culture in numbers

I am interested in mathematics only as a

creative art.

Godfrey Harold Hardy

Art as critique

Art as response

What I say

What you understand

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

Godfrey Harold Hardy

Generative art

Footfall

Iteration as journey

Glitch art

Error as exploration

Leeds Art Crawl

Walk ParisSee Leeds

Absurdist art

Dada data

Toilet flushesversus

Art Appreciation

Often the absurd is what unveils hidden

aspects of our models.

Joerg Blumtritt

SeePeeTeaFlee

Take your data set

Make something new

Imagine how to change it

GenerativeGlitchDada

Whatever

Tell us what you made

2 things

There are numbers in

culture

There is culture in numbers

What we say

What we understand

Thank you