Hello world, we are Data Thistle! Data Thistle is a listings technology business that provides the UK’s largest set of live events data. …

It’s that time of year again! The Edinburgh Festival for 2022 has begun, and the streets are already buzzing with anticipation. Data Thistle’s offices are right in the heart of Edinburgh, just off the Royal Mile, so we’ve been seeing the excitement grow along with the rest of the city…

A guest posting by Joshua Ryan-Saha, Data-Driven Innovation Lead — Tourism & Festivals, The University of Edinburgh If you’ve been in Edinburgh during August, you’ve witnessed a city transformed. The population swells, and the party begins. When taken together, the seven main August festivals represent an event close to the…

In the last five years, we have gathered information related to over 7,000,000 performances of around 700,000 live events held at one of over 80,000 venues, so while we claim significant domain experience, we still face challenging problems related to certain types of data. Over the years, we have significantly…

A response to the Nesta-funded report (pdf) At the inception of The List (now Data Thistle) in 1985, we used the term ‘arts and entertainment’ to describe the domain focus of our magazine, with editorial and listings which were collected by hand from printed venue programmes. …