Louisville’s Arts Master Plan

February 10, 2016
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A master planning effort for the arts in Greater Louisville has just been launched to connect and strengthen our arts and cultural assets and to integrate the arts into the community’s overall vision for the future.

Input from Greater Louisville residents, participants in the arts and other sectors, will be critical at this early stage of the planning process to result in a useful plan that benefits the entire community. Community and sector-specific workshops are being held February 23-24, 2016, and Greater Louisvillians are encouraged to attend! Workshops are free, and refreshments will be provided. Please use the online form to RSVP. You can learn more about the plan and the process at www.greaterlouisvillearts.com.

Updates will be made to this post as they become available.

Update as of 2017 – below is the final product of this initiative:

http://www.greaterlouisvillearts.com/

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Natural Breaks Algorithm

For each indicator, Greater Louisville Project assigns cities into one of three groups (high-performing, middle-of-the-pack, and low-performing) based on how they compare to other cities. The assignment is based on how cities naturally cluster on that indicator. Sometimes, the differences between cities are very small, and the difference between a city ranked 5th and 6th could simply be a matter of the sampling error that arises from using survey data. Thus, rather than always make a division that declares the top 5 to be the top tier, we use a natural breaks algorithm to look for a cluster of cities that is outperforming the rest, a cluster that is about average, and a cluster that is lagging. This clustering gives us a better indication of where Louisville is thriving and where Louisville has room to learn from cities that are doing better.

Z-Scores

Z-scores (or standardization) is a way to combine data with different units of measurement into a single index. The z-score is a measure of how far away a city (or census tract, etc.) is from the average city. In order to be comparable across different units of measurement, the z-score is the distance from the mean measured in standard deviations (e.g. if Louisville has a z-score of 1 it means Louisville is 1 standard deviation above the mean of its peer cities).

Data from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's County Health Rankings use z-scores and all z-scores are relative to the mean of Louisville's peer cities. (On the County Health Rankings site z-scores are relative to all the counties in each state - thus z-scores reported by GLP will be different, because we are using a different reference group). The Greater Louisville Project also uses z-scores in our multidimensional poverty index, which compares each census tract to the mean of all census tracts in Louisville.