{"id":731,"date":"2005-07-19T08:40:34","date_gmt":"2005-07-19T15:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2005\/07\/a_fresh_look_for_arts_research\/"},"modified":"2005-07-19T08:40:34","modified_gmt":"2005-07-19T15:40:34","slug":"a_fresh_look_for_arts_research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/a_fresh_look_for_arts_research.php","title":{"rendered":"A fresh look for arts research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The folks over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpanda.org\/\">CPANDA<\/a> (Cultural Policy &#038; the Arts National Data Archive&#8230;when you discuss it at cocktail parties, the acronym is pronounced &#8216;see&#8217;-&#8216;panda&#8217;) have redesigned their web site in an effort to make arts and cultural research more engaging for a wider world.<\/p>\n<p>The site still primarily serves as a warehouse for research datasets of previous studies, made available to researchers interested in running their own queries on the numbers. Not a practice for the faint of heart.<\/p>\n<p>But CPANDA also seeks to make research findings accessible and useful to practitioners, policy makers, and supporters, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpanda.org\/resources\/\">overviews of available studies in various categories<\/a>, guides to evaluating research, and &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpanda.org\/arts-culture-facts\/\">quick facts<\/a>&#8216; sifted from the data.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you ever wanted to know <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpanda.org\/arts-culture-facts\/audiences\/participate.html\">how many people participate in arts and cultural activities<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpanda.org\/arts-culture-facts\/audiences\/classical02.html\">who attends classical music concerts<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpanda.org\/arts-culture-facts\/artists\/artistemploy.html\">how many artists there are in the U.S.<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpanda.org\/arts-culture-facts\/policy\/harris92.html\">how supportive Americans are of arts education in the public schools<\/a>, you&#8217;ve found your resource.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth a browse. And it might just be the incentive you need to purchase that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spss.com\/\">statistical analysis software<\/a> you&#8217;ve had your eye on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks over at CPANDA (Cultural Policy &#038; the Arts National Data Archive&#8230;when you discuss it at cocktail parties, the acronym is pronounced &#8216;see&#8217;-&#8216;panda&#8217;) have redesigned their web site in an effort to make arts and cultural research more engaging for a wider world. The site still primarily serves as a warehouse for research datasets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}