Cleaning 21 years of messy music data
Twenty-one years of band names typed by hand leaves a fossil record of human inconsistency. Here's what it took to tidy up the Matinee Idle archive.
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A love letter to Matinee Idle, a cult radio show, and the rabbit hole it sent me down. With 21 years of archive data, 15,411 songs, and one very strange most-played track.
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Te Ara Tupua opened on 16 May. Using two existing sensors at the path's southern entry, here's what the first week looks like — and what the wider WCC network tells us about cycling trends in Wellington.
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I used six years of Wellington weather data to fix the rules on Can You Beat Wellington. Turns out some seasons just don't have good days, and Wellington doesn't have 4 seasons.
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"You can't beat Wellington on a good day" Since I've joined a team that is predominately made up of people outside of Wellington, people now say this to me all...
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