The creative industries are a closely connected set of sectors including art, design, fashion, film, music and computer games.
Some of the things I have written on the creative industries are here and I have spoken at many conferences and events on it. An interview with Design Decode is here. Some of the projects I have worked on are below.
In addition to public data science work and commentary, I have also worked as a data scientist and economist for some of the UK’s largest cultural institutions and attractions on their visitor and membership data.
Work on the role of digital in the creative industries
In response to growing interest in both the creative industries and artificial intelligence (AI) Juan Mateos-Garcia, Kostas Stathoulopoulos, Joel Klinger and I used machine learning methods to analyse text data from ArXiv the global scientific e-print site to quantify the UK’s activities in comparison to the
global activity in AI and the creative industries.
The report on this can be read here and a summary of this is here.
Following on from this, Eliza Easton and I developed a proposal for a UK centre in AI and the creative industries. This proposal has been publicly endorsed by a range of major digital and creative organisations including WPP, Google, Double Negative, the National Gallery and the Digital Catapult. The proposal has also been endorsed by world-leading research centres in AI and the creative industries such as University of the Arts London and Edinburgh University. Read the open letter to the UK Chancellor here.
Georgia Ward Dyer and I were commissioned by the European Parliament to assess the effects of digital technology on artistic activity. The report for this is available here and was presented at the Parliament.
In the context of Covid, Raphael Leung and I analysed how the pandemic has affected the uptake of streaming services, using information on a range of different sources including Steam and Spotify.
Work on creative industries and places
Antonio Lima and I have developed a series of interactive maps looking at different creative industry issues.
The clubbing map
To address the question of whether London nightlife was moving out of the city centre, in collaboration with the global electronic music site Resident Advisor, we developed a map that enabled 10 years of London night life to be visualised.
The map and a summary of what the analysis found is here.
It was publicly endorsed by the London Night Tsar and covered in DJ Mag.
The museums map
This map analyses how access to museums varies around England and how this relates to levels of deprivation.
The map and a summary of what it shows is here.
It was publicly endorsed by the UK’s Minister for Culture and Digital and reproduced in the government’s review of museums.
