{"items": [{"author": "Frannie", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/754642628002?comment_id=754644394462", "anchor": "fb-754644394462", "service": "fb", "text": "FYI: Contra Carnivale (cccds.org) lists its bands and callers over the last 10 years.", "timestamp": "1445888318"}, {"author": "Perry", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/754642628002?comment_id=754644993262", "anchor": "fb-754644993262", "service": "fb", "text": "I certainly would be interested in seeing trends at many dance weekends over the past decade or so. I am also curious if you can do splits of who is a headline band and who is the \"second\" band, if that's easy to do. I am curious to see if some bands and callers get far and away more gigs than others.", "timestamp": "1445888648"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/754642628002?comment_id=754644993262&reply_comment_id=754647563112", "anchor": "fb-754644993262_754647563112", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Most weekends don't list primary/secondary, sorry!

(And much of the time it's informal, without one band having an explicit \"secondary\" designation.)", "timestamp": "1445890529"}, {"author": "Perry", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/754642628002?comment_id=754644993262&reply_comment_id=754649384462", "anchor": "fb-754644993262_754649384462", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Yeah, true. I get it.", "timestamp": "1445891425"}, {"author": "Frannie", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/754642628002?comment_id=754645038172", "anchor": "fb-754645038172", "service": "fb", "text": "Dance in the Desert has its past info on banners they hang in the hall. I can take photos if you are interested as well as get you the last 10 years at Fiddling Frog if you want more data.", "timestamp": "1445888681"}, {"author": "Audrey", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/754642628002?comment_id=754645282682", "anchor": "fb-754645282682", "service": "fb", "text": "Me want more data!", "timestamp": "1445888869"}, {"author": "Frannie", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/754642628002?comment_id=754645282682&reply_comment_id=754646155932", "anchor": "fb-754645282682_754646155932", "service": "fb", "text": "→ You also want more gigs! And more gigs with me! ;-)", "timestamp": "1445889565"}, {"author": "Nix", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/754642628002?comment_id=754646355532", "anchor": "fb-754646355532", "service": "fb", "text": "It's honestly really hard to read the tables when the number of festivals reporting and the number of bands per festival keeps changing. Maybe add an n value so it's easier to get a sense of the number of gigs played compared to total possible number of gigs?", "timestamp": "1445889712"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/754642628002?comment_id=754646355532&reply_comment_id=754673221692", "anchor": "fb-754646355532_754673221692", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Makes sense. I've added (n=N) to indicate the total number of slots in each time period.", "timestamp": "1445899955"}, {"author": "Chris", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/754642628002?comment_id=754665901362", "anchor": "fb-754665901362", "service": "fb", "text": "I'm more interested in finding correlation between bands/callers and attendance. Both to see which bands/callers are popular and/or to see whether there's a correlation in the first place. Do people pay attention when deciding whether to go dancing?", "timestamp": "1445896281"}, {"author": "Nix", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/754642628002?comment_id=754665901362&reply_comment_id=754668970212", "anchor": "fb-754665901362_754668970212", "service": "fb", "text": "→ I do for weekly dances and other day long events (like the 12 hour Peterborough balls). For the longer events -- Flurry, NEFFA, Falcon Ridge, Pinewoods -- I tend to go every year regardless of who is playing.", "timestamp": "1445898611"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/754642628002?comment_id=754665901362&reply_comment_id=754671061022", "anchor": "fb-754665901362_754671061022", "service": "fb", "text": "→ I'm sure bands/callers are a big factor in the decision the marginal dancer makes.", "timestamp": "1445898927"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/754642628002?comment_id=754665901362&reply_comment_id=754679878352", "anchor": "fb-754665901362_754679878352", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Attendance numbers are generally not public, though, so it would be hard to figure out a pattern. And there's a lot of noise in attendance data.", "timestamp": "1445904874"}, {"author": "Chris", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/754642628002?comment_id=754665901362&reply_comment_id=754680856392", "anchor": "fb-754665901362_754680856392", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Yeah, those are both problems. I think for a weekly dance, you might be able to have enough data to overcome noise, but that doesn't help with privacy.", "timestamp": "1445905339"}, {"author": "Kiran", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/754642628002?comment_id=754665901362&reply_comment_id=754729533842", "anchor": "fb-754665901362_754729533842", "service": "fb", "text": "→ I'm not sure why attendance data should be private.", "timestamp": "1445927845"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/754642628002?comment_id=754665901362&reply_comment_id=754739588692", "anchor": "fb-754665901362_754739588692", "service": "fb", "text": "→ @Kiran: I would also like to have attendance (and financial) data be public. This is an argument I've had within BIDA and lost.", "timestamp": "1445947503"}, {"author": "Kiran", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/754642628002?comment_id=754665901362&reply_comment_id=754739683502", "anchor": "fb-754665901362_754739683502", "service": "fb", "text": "→ What are the counter arguments?", "timestamp": "1445947681"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/754642628002?comment_id=754665901362&reply_comment_id=754739703462", "anchor": "fb-754665901362_754739703462", "service": "fb", "text": "→ \"Performers deserve to have this information kept secret, so people can't find out what they earn or what they drew.\"", "timestamp": "1445947753"}, {"author": "Kiran", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/754642628002?comment_id=754665901362&reply_comment_id=754739898072", "anchor": "fb-754665901362_754739898072", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Were the people making that argument performers?

(I've long thought dances should pay a fixed amount rather than basing it on attendance.)", "timestamp": "1445947925"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/754642628002?comment_id=754665901362&reply_comment_id=754740307252", "anchor": "fb-754665901362_754740307252", "service": "fb", "text": "→ @Kiran: The people who felt most strongly were.", "timestamp": "1445948259"}, {"author": "Kiran", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/754642628002?comment_id=754665901362&reply_comment_id=754740611642", "anchor": "fb-754665901362_754740611642", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Interesting but unsurprising.", "timestamp": "1445948307"}, {"author": "Perry", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/754642628002?comment_id=754665901362&reply_comment_id=754743440972", "anchor": "fb-754665901362_754743440972", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Doesn't financial data of a non-profit need to be made public by law?", "timestamp": "1445950967"}, {"author": "Allison", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/754642628002?comment_id=754665901362&reply_comment_id=754751165492", "anchor": "fb-754665901362_754751165492", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Some does, but not week-by-week breakdowns. For an organization that only does dances, you might be able to work out roughly their total attendance numbers over the course of the year based on publicly available information. Not enough to know which bands drew the most dancers, for sure.", "timestamp": "1445955265"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/754642628002?comment_id=754665901362&reply_comment_id=754752777262", "anchor": "fb-754665901362_754752777262", "service": "fb", "text": "→ @Perry: IRS form 990 is quite limited.

BIDA is also not an IRS-recognized non profit (yet!)", "timestamp": "1445956489"}, {"author": "Perry", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/754642628002?comment_id=754665901362&reply_comment_id=754753730352", "anchor": "fb-754665901362_754753730352", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Ah! What about dance weekends? Are they considered non-profits?", "timestamp": "1445957101"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/754642628002?comment_id=754665901362&reply_comment_id=754759922942", "anchor": "fb-754665901362_754759922942", "service": "fb", "text": "→ @Perry: Some weekends are part of larger non profits, but I can't think of any organization that is just a single weekend.", "timestamp": "1445962425"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/754642628002?comment_id=754679813482", "anchor": "fb-754679813482", "service": "fb", "text": "Update: I've added the Tampa Snow Ball (1996-).", "timestamp": "1445904804"}, {"author": "Luke", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/115294324243294509069", "anchor": "gp-1445906980374", "service": "gp", "text": "I don't actually know if the number of weekends is increasing; or if you just have data from a larger percentage of more recent weekends. Do you have a sense of that?\n
\n
\nAnd thanks for putting all this together!", "timestamp": 1445906980}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1445912616970", "service": "gp", "text": "@Luke\n\u00a0I have:\n
\n
\n* Atlanta 1987-\n
\n* Pigtown 1990-\n
\n* Dallas 1991-\n
\n* Houston 1994-\n
\n* Tampa 1996-\n
\n* Austin 1997-\n
\n* BACDS 1999-\n
\n* Oberlin 2001-\n
\n
\nSome of these grew over time, from one band and one caller to two or three. \u00a0Atlanta especially.\n
\n
\nThis is all in the \"historical\" tab on the sheet.\n
\n
\nI do think the number of weekends is increasing, but I don't think my historical data here follows that by much more than accident. \u00a0We have history here for only eight weekends out of over 100.", "timestamp": 1445912616}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/754642628002?comment_id=754849703022", "anchor": "fb-754849703022", "service": "fb", "text": "One thing I learned: there are some great contra bands I'd never heard play because they (mostly) predated me. Listening to the \"hillbillies from mars\" cd now.", "timestamp": "1446039860"}]}