Workshop on opendata and culture. Exercises in finding narratives from data in cultural organisations and using ideas of art to create new meanings in datasets. Workshop designed for Leeds Data Mill and run at Culture In Numbers event on 18th February 2015

1. Culture In
Numbers

2. A mathematician, like a
painter or a poet, is a
maker of patterns.
Godfrey Harold Hardy

3. Numbers In
Culture

4. Narratives

5. DATA

6. Time

7. The Past

8. Analyse

9. The Future

10. Predict

11. The Present

12. Explain

13. Focus

14. What

15. Why

16. How

17. Depth

18. Methods

19. Correlation

20. Causation

21. Take a data set

22. Catering
Meals sold
Drinks sold
Ingredients bought
Shop
Postcards sold
Gifts sold
Items bought
Gallery
Footfall per room
Loiter time
Artefacts on display
Entrance
People entering
Guides sold
Complaints made

23. Make a story

24. Time
Focus
Methods

25. Tell us a story

26. But...

27. Culture in
numbers

28. I am interested in
mathematics only as a
creative art.
Godfrey Harold Hardy

29. Art as critique

30. Art as
response

31. What I say
What you understand

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

33. Generative art

34. Footfall

36. Iteration as
journey

37. Glitch art

38. Error as
exploration

39. Leeds Art Crawl

45. Walk Paris
See Leeds

46. Absurdist art

47. Dada data

48. Toilet flushes
versus
Art Appreciation

49. Often the absurd is
what unveils hidden
aspects of our models.
Joerg Blumtritt

50. See
Pee
Tea
Flee

51. Take your data
set

52. Make
something new

53. Imagine how to
change it

54. Generative
Glitch
Dada
Whatever

55. Tell us what
you made

56. 2 things

57. There are
numbers in
culture

58. There is culture
in numbers

59. What we say
What we understand

60. Thank you