Where Have You Been? (thanks Manchester Orchestra) I’ve had a particularly prolonged busy period of work of… a year or so? Maybe longer? At this point, honestly who can even understand the passage of time any more. Anyway, that seems to have come to and end for now so I’m trying to reclaim my evenings and start actually finishing work on time. As part of that (and with a bit more mental bandwidth to spare after I log off), I’m trying to pick up some new projects and get back into the routine of doing some programming for fun rather than just for work.

Every year, top champ Pip runs a Facebook group to work out the Album Of The Year within an extended friendship group. For the past few years I’ve been making graphs to summarise the results, using some slightly clunky Jupyter notebooks. At first this just analysed the albums chosen by the group, and then last year (after I did my TTNG analysis) I expanded it to include some Spotify data too.

After making my graphs about the most common pub names in each country in Great Britain, one thing that really stood out was just how many pubs in England are called Red Lion. Being from the Midlands that made a lot of sense to me, but a few people who I showed it to seemed quite surprised. That got me thinking about what kind of regional variation there is in pub names.

A definitely super-serious investigation into a song title.

Part 2 of the Albums to Ruin Twitter bot - tracking played albums with a database