Big Data goes to the movies: Kinomatics Part 2

• 1. Deakin University CRICOS Provider Code: 00113B KINOMATICS: BIG DATA GOES TO THE MOVIES DEB VERHOEVEN (DEAKIN UNIVERSITY) @BESTQUALITYCRAB

2. Deakin University CRICOS Provider Code: 00113B KINOMATICS: BIG DATA WILL GO TO THE MOVIES DEB VERHOEVEN (DEAKIN UNIVERSITY) @BESTQUALITYCRAB 3. Deakin University CRICOS Provider Code: 00113B KINOMATICS: BIG DATA WENT TO THE MOVIES DEB VERHOEVEN (DEAKIN UNIVERSITY) @BESTQUALITYCRAB 4. Deakin University CRICOS Provider Code: 00113B RECAP: What is Kinomatics? KINEMATICS: THE STUDY OF THE GEOMETRY OF MOTION KINOMATICS: THE STUDY OF THE INDUSTRIAL GEOMETRY OF MOTION PICTURES 5. Deakin University CRICOS Provider Code: 00113B Kinomatics.com 6. Deakin University CRICOS Provider Code: 00113B RECAP: Who is Kinomatics? Deb Verhoeven (Cinema Studies; Digital Humanities) Colin Arrowsmith (Geospatial Science) Alwyn Davidson (Geospatial Science) Bronwyn Coate (Economist) Ben Eltham (Cultural Policy) Stuart Palmer (Network Analyst) 7. 150 million showtimes 60 000 movies 55 000 venues 48 countries Visualisation: Alwyn Davidson 8. Deakin University CRICOS Provider Code: 00113B RECAP: What is Kinomatics? 9. Deakin University CRICOS Provider Code: 00113B RECAP: What is Kinomatics?The major research aim of Kinomatics is to foster and investigate: the global flow of culture in particular in the film industry; the computational turn in cinema (and music) research; innovative approaches to digital research methodologies; models for big cultural data research. 10. Deakin University CRICOS Provider Code: 00113B BIG data Its not how big your data is, its what you do with it that counts 11. Deakin University CRICOS Provider Code: 00113B BIG data and anxiety Size anxiety - dimensia - who has the biggest? Primacy anxiety - who came first? Or who did it first? 12. Deakin University CRICOS Provider Code: 00113B ONE YEAR LATER Big Data doesnt immediately equate to Big Breakthroughs. Moving beyond The Obvious takes work. 13. Deakin University CRICOS Provider Code: 00113B FLOW? 14. Deakin University CRICOS Provider Code: 00113B SCALE?: cinemacities.com 15. Deakin University CRICOS Provider Code: 00113B TIME?: HOBBIT EARS 16. Deakin University CRICOS Provider Code: 00113B TIME?: HOBBIT YEARS 17. Deakin University CRICOS Provider Code: 00113B TIME?: PLAYWEEKSW ednesday-Tuesday Thursday-W ednesday Friday-Thursday Saturday-Friday No Data 18. Deakin University CRICOS Provider Code: 00113B MULTIPLE TEMPORALITIES Data describes showtimes at the level of individual sessions that are projected to occur in a forthcoming week Data arrives at kinomatics weekly Data is obsolete after one month (and is disposed of by the data provider) Showtime data in the kinomatics database is replaced on a weekly basis if records are incomplete The kinomatics database itself is built in legacy data formats (MySQL) 19. Deakin University CRICOS Provider Code: 00113B BEYOND BINARIES Above Below Theoretical Empirical Big Small Fast Slow Uniform Heterogeneous Distant Close Global Local Generated Recuperated Now Then Abstract Concrete 20. Deakin University CRICOS Provider Code: 00113B BIG DATA AND NCH Big Data changes the past by changing our approach to it. Working with Big Data invites researchers to reflect on the nature of history itself: how do we deal with passing media, passing technologies and also passing ideas about newness itself? If we understand information systems as inherently theoretical and temporary formations/formulations then what theoretical and historical questions do they themselves recommend? 21. Deakin University CRICOS Provider Code: 00113B BIG NEW CINEMA HISTORY I am large, I contain multitudes Walt Whitman, Song of Myself 22. Deakin University CRICOS Provider Code: 00113B THE ORDERING OF THINGS Reflect on changes in our own temporality as researchers: knowledge is always in processnot a priori nor a posteriori 23. Deakin University CRICOS Provider Code: 00113B MIND BLOWN? 24. Deakin University CRICOS Provider Code: 00113B HOLD THAT THOUGHT