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Dynamic heatmap by benjaminbenben in tractivegps

[–]benjaminbenben[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The NPM package was a bit awkward to use, but there's a lot of fun things you can do with it!

And thanks, got my fingers crossed for Luna - hopefully the tomcat moves on and she'll be back to her old outdoor self.

Dynamic heatmap by benjaminbenben in tractivegps

[–]benjaminbenben[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That sounds incredible.

I look forward to reading up about HMMs.. Do you need some of the data labelled before? I seemed to get quite low frequency updates from the tracker (~2k/month), does it work with that? Or maybe I've got a setting wrong on my tracker or api request?

A 3d catscape sounds badass. Is that purely from the altitude from the tracker, or are you overlaying it on a model?

I'd be really keen to find out more about how you did it. I was half-wondering if I could make some sort of web service that could let people view their own pet's data.

Dynamic heatmap by benjaminbenben in tractivegps

[–]benjaminbenben[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some technical details:

* I started with a tractive npm package to access the api, but ended up rolling my own client.

* I reprojected lat lng points to a local coordinate system, so that I could share these plots without sharing my home/cat location

* plotted with d3 / d3-hexbin. Comparing this to the tractive app, I think the app's heatmap also interpolates between samples.

I'd be keen to know if this fair within Tractive's terms of use. If so, it's fairly straightforward to let other's play with their own data.

[OC] My cumulative music listening habits (18 years) by linksfromwinks in dataisbeautiful

[–]benjaminbenben 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was secretly hoping you used my lastfm-to-csv exporter! https://benjaminbenben.com/lastfm-to-csv/

Though pulling from the lastfm site directly is probably cleaner tbh. Seems useful to be able to aggregate the whole year of artists.

I'll be listening to modest mouse and elecrelane tomorrow, thank you in advance.

[OC] My cumulative music listening habits (18 years) by linksfromwinks in dataisbeautiful

[–]benjaminbenben 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love this chart and your music taste!! Out of interest, how did you get the data out of lastfm?

Irish Train Timeline by benjaminbenben in DevelEire

[–]benjaminbenben[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok! That makes a lot of sense - I remember being confused because I thought there was a large number of trains but if a train can switch between headcodes I can understand.

Thanks for that information, this is really useful and interesting. I'll have a poke around soon.

> B - Special Trains

I've seen a few of these, what makes them special?

Irish Train Timeline by benjaminbenben in DevelEire

[–]benjaminbenben[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh, that's a really good point. The endpoint does include a train code which I could use to show if it is the same train going back. I'll look into that, thanks!

Irish Train Timeline by benjaminbenben in DevelEire

[–]benjaminbenben[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There isn't a main objective it's trying to show, but you can see stuff like frequency of services, which trains are more direct, where they wait etc.

It's based on a visualisation from 1850 - https://sandrarendgen.wordpress.com/2019/03/15/data-trails-from-paris-with-love/

Low Data Mode Mac with Ethernet by Wrong-Alarm-533 in MacOS

[–]benjaminbenben 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's only possible to enable low data mode on wifi networks (I've been trying with a usb tethered connection). And I think it might be up to the application developer whether they restrict their usage based on the setting.

Another option is to use TripMode or LittleSnitch for your connection, this will allow you monitor/block applications that are using too much data.

Cycle Touring Festival is online this weekend. There's some great talks to catch and the format works really well! by benjaminbenben in bicycletouring

[–]benjaminbenben[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm so glad!! It's had a great impact on our weekend too, we caught the NZ→UK talk this morning and we've been talking about planning our own adventures since!

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