Learning from 20 years of personal analytics

Re:Learning from 20 years of personal analytics by mhansen on Friday March 09, 2012 @03:43AM (#3683432)

If this kind of thing interests you, I made an app that graphs last.fm song listens in the same way as Wolfram's graphed his emails.

I find changes in listening habits correlate well with big life changes.

http://markhansen.co.nz/scatter.fm

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Re:Learning from 20 years of personal analytics by tobbez on Friday March 09, 2012 @07:37AM (#3683825)

I see that you're making the API requests on the client side (a good idea because of last.fm's API restrictions), but you should really consider caching them server side.

It takes quite a while to fetch all plays if you have a lot, and currently, if you want to share the graph with your friends, they would have to wait too.

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Re:Learning from 20 years of personal analytics by mhansen on Friday March 09, 2012 @08:23AM (#3683943)

Yeah, I hear ya, it takes ages to load my data too. If there's a way to cache on the serverside without running into the API throttling, I'd love to do some caching.

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Re:Learning from 20 years of personal analytics by beza1e1 on Friday March 09, 2012 @11:09AM (#3684587)

Another idea: log which windows are open and whitch one is active:

http://darcs.nomeata.de/arbtt/doc/users_guide/

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