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Municipal Association of Victoria

Culture Counts built an interactive dashboard that brought together data from Victoria’s 79 local governments, to generate a snapshot of the creative sector and the impact of local government investment.

New technologies offering simple solutions to long-term challenges

Cultural managers and practitioners increasingly seek to understand and measure the impact of their projects on communities. This is important for best practice operation and ensuring the responsible use of public funds, and is increasingly demanded by funding bodies and...

Strength in Numbers

“The Answer to the Great Question… Of Life, the Universe and Everything… Is… Forty-two” ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy There seems to be some fears floating around the arts sector about quantitative measurement of audience experience....

Aggregate insights

One of the benefits of using consistent metrics for evaluation is the ability to aggregate and draw insights from big data. As the Culture Counts event database grows (35,000 responses and counting), we’ll provide periodic updates to members using aggregated...

Sport counts

Australia has just wrapped up one of its biggest weekends in sport, with the Grand Finals for AFL and NRL held in Melbourne and Sydney respectively. It would be difficult for any Australian to completely avoid footy fever, as the...