Terminology that is used to describe concepts is an important aspect to clear communication.
Key concepts
The main aim of the Bradford 2025 Data Dashboard is to present information about the Bradfird City of Culture 2025 programme. This is primarily segmented by
- Themes
- Primary data extracted direct from Bradford 2025 operational systems.
- Insights
- Reports integrating multiple themes to present a view of information about Bradford 2025.
- Experiments / Trials / Explorations
- Speculative data derived from novel or other open data sources. May be developed in partnership with research partners
Themes
Themes are the foundation of the Bradford 2025 Data Dashboard. Each theme contains data directly drawn from an operational system.
Each theme will have it's own page of visualisations presenting the core information derived direct from that source of information.
A partial list is provided below.
| Theme | Source system(s) |
|---|---|
| Volunteers | Rosterfy |
| Scheduled Events | Airtable |
| Ticket Sales | Spektrix |
| Event Attendance | Airtable |
| … | … |
Insights
Insights aggregate multiple sources of data to produce information-dense reports. They aim to meet the needs of one or more Bradford 2025 stakeholders.
Insights will be created for many purposes, potentially covering specific events, broader evaluation aims, or to meet the needs of specific stakeholders (e.g. funders, steering committees).
Experiments / Trials / Explorations
Bradford 2025 will work with experimental and innovative sources of data to underpin evaluation and reporting. These are presented as experiments.
We term these sources of data experiments, to distinguish them from the strongly operational themes. If they prove useful the experiments might be added to the perspective reports.