domesticat.net Much ado about the usual nothing. http://domesticat.net/node/1474/atom/feed 2008-02-16T20:45:20+00:00 love is an open data format http://domesticat.net/2008/02/love-open-data-format 2008-02-14T17:26:53+00:00 2008-02-16T20:45:20+00:00 domesticat In the spirit of Valentine's Day, and by that I mean "this doesn't have anything to do with Valentine's Day," I present something I love:
Open data formats.
Most of you know I've been logging my listening habits over at last.fm for several years now. Some time ago, a nifty gentleman wrote a set of scripts (available at lastgraph.aeracode.org) to generate a visual representation of a single user's listening habits over time.
2005

2006

2007

I think I have earlier data saved on files at home, but I'll have to check. Clicking on the files will take you to the larger versions archived on flickr.

]]> In the spirit of Valentine's Day, and by that I mean "this doesn't have anything to do with Valentine's Day," I present something I love:

Open data formats.

Most of you know I've been logging my listening habits over at last.fm for several years now. Some time ago, a nifty gentleman wrote a set of scripts (available at lastgraph.aeracode.org) to generate a visual representation of a single user's listening habits over time.

2005
2005: listening

2006
2006: listening

2007
2007: listening

I think I have earlier data saved on files at home, but I'll have to check. Clicking on the files will take you to the larger versions archived on flickr.

There isn't quite a 1:1 correlation between workload and headphone hours logged, but it's pretty close. A quick look at January and February 2008, which I left on the end of the 2007 graph, tells you a lot about work right now.

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