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13-Jan-2022

Sparklines in Excel courtesy seminar by Jordan Goldmeier

I attended Jordan Goldmeier’s (advancedxl.com) seminar on data visualization in Excel via one of Creative Morning‘s Field Trips. It is far easier to do cool stuff in Excel than I remember. Behold a sparkline bar graph of my ArtLung blog post counts by month since 2001.

10-Jan-2022

Finding earworms in last.fm data with PHP

Over the weekend I was prompted to think about the idea of an “earworm” — a song or piece of music that gets stuck in your mind. Some people find such “earworms” to be highly irritating. The idiom implies an actual worm in your actual ear which sounds positively *horrifying* to me. For me, an…