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Month: October 2020

Eighteenth Century London Concerts: 5 – The Concert Season

10th October 2020 / Andrew Gustar / Leave a comment
Johann Christian Bach

This article in the series exploring the Eighteenth Century London Concerts dataset looks at when the concerts were held. This covers questions such as in which decade or year they took place, at what point during the year, on which days of the week, and at what times of day? And how did this vary according to the type of concert?

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Eighteenth Century London Concerts: 4 – Ticket Prices

2nd October 2020 / Andrew Gustar / Leave a comment

In this article about the Eighteenth Century London Concerts dataset, I will look in more detail at the prices of concert tickets.

The published data has multiple prices and categories listed in single cells of the spreadsheet. This needs to be parsed before it can be used for statistical analysis.

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