Last FM visualization

[undyingking]

This is pretty cool, and probably not too hard to reproduce. Allocating the colours such that it looked nice but there were no clashes might be slightly tricky though. (Also, I don't know how to programmatically access the old charts, although I expect there's a way.)

"Each colored sliver represents a different artist listened to in the last 18 months. The sliver moves through time left to right growing thicker where it was more popular and thinner where it was less. The color indicates the first time the artist was listened to, warmer colors being more recent and cooler being further back. As a new artist is listened to it is put onto the outsides of the graph. The result is a wiggling tour through your listening history past."

Comments

[vicarage.livejournal.com]

That's like application charting the change in popularity in children's names over the century.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Mm, I like that name popularity app, very nice usable design.