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 [...]
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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 [...]
Noticed National Rail has a ‘virtual assistant‘, sceptically wondered how bad it could be:
Rejected by a natural language processor! That’ll teach me for being sceptical.
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.
Take a look at the URLs used to make the charts at the bottom of this page.
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It’d be even cooler if the chart was at all attractive..