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Data Analytics Virtual Tessitura Users Group (VTUG)

Tom Brown (Past Member)
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All,

As many of you may be aware, I'm interested in "lighting up data" to help cultural non-profits meet budget and deliver on mission.  In the New York Area, I am super lucky to have many opportunities to meet with Data Scientists, Analysts, Machine Learning Experts from many organizations. These interactions have been both encouraging, and have helped me learn a lot.  Most of the folks I meet are not from cultural non-profit organizations. Most are from large financial services, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, internet startup or academic organizations.

What I feel I'm missing, is consistent opportunities to meet with, learn from, and encourage other Cultural Non-Profit data leaders like each of you.

Over the past few years, I've been interested in more regularly participating in data analytics conversations with my Tessitura Colleagues.  

With that in mind, I'd like to invite each you to a conversation about forming a Data Analytics Virtual Tessitura Users Group (VTUG) within our community.

To gauge interest, and maybe start a bit of planning, I'd like to invite each of you to join me for a formation meeting this coming week.

I've arranged a Go To Meeting conference bridge but, I'd like to know when folks could meet.  So, I've set up a doodle poll to find the most convenient moment for many of us.

https://doodle.com/poll/fs58cwq2xc2pxwui

Looking forward to a great conversation.

--Tom Brown

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    Again thanks to all who have participated in the formation meetings for the Analytics Virtual TUG.

    Here are some results from our meetings questionnaire.  In general, we had 35 individual participants from 29 organizations.

    Participants by Orginization

    The next question is how often we should meet.  The Median was 8 weeks with a Standard Deviation or about 1 month(4.096 weeks).

    Summary of suggestions about distribution of meetings

    I'm going to use some data-informed intuition here, and suggest that we try to meet monthly with agendas that switch every other month.

    For example:

    • The even number months we can focus on conversations and community development.
    • Where the odd-numbered months we could focus on presentations and planned content.

    If this turns out to be too active to sustain. We can drop the frequency back to every 6, 8, or even 12-13 weeks.  

    The Next question we can answer from the data is where are we around the world.  Given the times that these formation meetings were held, it turns out that most of us were from the USA.  However, we had a few hearty folks from the UK and South Pacific.  The easiest way to see this is the Time Zones we reported.

    Participant Time Zones

    I've started to create a cluster analysis of the responses from participants.  It turns out that we don't have quite enough data to have meaningful responses.

    The next thing will be to build a meeting time analysis taking into account the time zones of the participants to see when the best times to meet will be.

    More to follow.  Looking forward to seeing ideas from folks about names for our group.

    --Tom

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    Again thanks to all who have participated in the formation meetings for the Analytics Virtual TUG.

    Here are some results from our meetings questionnaire.  In general, we had 35 individual participants from 29 organizations.

    Participants by Orginization

    The next question is how often we should meet.  The Median was 8 weeks with a Standard Deviation or about 1 month(4.096 weeks).

    Summary of suggestions about distribution of meetings

    I'm going to use some data-informed intuition here, and suggest that we try to meet monthly with agendas that switch every other month.

    For example:

    • The even number months we can focus on conversations and community development.
    • Where the odd-numbered months we could focus on presentations and planned content.

    If this turns out to be too active to sustain. We can drop the frequency back to every 6, 8, or even 12-13 weeks.  

    The Next question we can answer from the data is where are we around the world.  Given the times that these formation meetings were held, it turns out that most of us were from the USA.  However, we had a few hearty folks from the UK and South Pacific.  The easiest way to see this is the Time Zones we reported.

    Participant Time Zones

    I've started to create a cluster analysis of the responses from participants.  It turns out that we don't have quite enough data to have meaningful responses.

    The next thing will be to build a meeting time analysis taking into account the time zones of the participants to see when the best times to meet will be.

    More to follow.  Looking forward to seeing ideas from folks about names for our group.

    --Tom

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