A note to say that a successor to Historical Charts is available at twothreefall.co.uk/lastfmexplorer. Redesign and restructure aside, new features alongside the charts that went before include:
Interactive charts and plots of weekly playcounts
Charts for only new artists
Information about extreme weeks
For an example see what it does with my data.
I’m pleased with how it’s turned [...]
I’ve been playing about with Django and Last.fm data, intended as an eventual upgrade to historical charts. It’s fun .. I now know I play most music in March and November (university deadline time!), that my top three artists of 2010 so far are Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear and The Delgados, and that my [...]
Exams are over, the sun came and went, I got a first (hurrah!), a job for a couple of months and now it’s just .. working out what now? Completing Chrono Trigger is my first priority :D
Spent some time moving the last.fm charts thing to Python, because Python is tasty, PHP is clumsy, and matplotlib [...]
Just a note to say I updated Historical Charts to take advantage of Last.fm automatically correcting misspelled info.
Should be alleviated – an unindexed query called for each track in a chart list was returning close to a million rows = ouch and hurrah for indexes.
I updated my historical charts program to allow album and track charts, make it utf8 compatible and give it a graphical overhaul too, hurrahs all round.
Same process as before – when you first create each kind of chart it’ll take a while to fetch your data, subsequent charts will be created a whole lot faster. [...]
I made my program to generate charts for any date range from LastFM data available to anybody a few weeks ago and it’s had a positive response, being included on build.last.fm as an interesting extra kindofthing. Though still nobody has feedback or suggestions. Maybe in itself it’s relatively complete and I should think [...]