No 12: NOISE Mapping and documenting users

Edit 8/6/2008
So this has changed quite a bit(and may start to fit in with the fuzzy data proposal) Last week I had a meeting with the head of BT regions in the north west about the NOISE website. One of the things that kept coming up was how we document where users are submitting from, which postcodes are creative hot spots, where users are signing up from and so on. Eventually how do you tie all this information together and make some sense of it. For this proposal I'm going to create a series of maps or documents that illustrate users on the NOISE site and how they use the NOISE site. These will be in form of visuals, similar to the Dopplr images below and the work of Edawrd Tufte.

Next step is to start selecting which data to use. The simplest starting point is to use the data on the NOISE admin section and start to work that up. Also start to visualize the information on Google analytics. I need to select the key information that is going into these reports. Again this comes back to this idea of selecting and choosing data, what do you want to do with it five or six stage later. What is the final outcome? Start from there and work backwards. These need to be ongoing documents, so creating a template that new data can be dropped in and compared weekly or monthly
Edit 8/6/2008


No 12: NOISE Festival Arts Council Evaluation Document








Design and visualistion of how NOISE Festival was used in 2008.

This information sheet introduces the idea of self-evaluation for artists and arts organisations. It provides a brief definition of evaluation, explains why we think it is important for everyone and suggests some approaches to self-evaluation. Finally, it lists resources to help with self-evaluation, many of which are downloadable from the web.

1 What is evaluation?
Evaluation involves gathering evidence before, during and after a project and using it to make judgements about what happened. The evidence should prove what happened and why, and what effect it had. The evidence can also help you to improve what you are doing during the project and what you do next time (Woolf, 2004).
2 Evaluation helps artists and arts organisations
Evaluation is a valuable tool for learning and involves critical analysis of your activities. Artists all make evaluative judgements about their work and evaluation makes the ‘reflective practice of creative work explicit and conscious’ (Moriarty 2002).

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