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Ahem… this post went up without either the words or pictures meant to go with it. No idea why…

About a year ago I wrote about a data visualisation by Lee Byron of his music listening history on Last.fm. Oh how I wished I could see my own.

Well, now everyone can at a site called LastGraph created by Andrew Goodwin and supported by raw ‘puter power from State51.

If you listen to Last.FM you’ve got to give this a go. If you are particularly proud of your rich seams of aural adventuring – and many people are – you can get a poster showing the evidence of your immaculately tasteful and eclectic online listening. Or upgrade to LastGraph premium for:

In return for a small (annual) fee, we’ll enable hotlinking for your graphs (so you can include them on your own website), and give you access to some small dynamic signature images you can use for forums or other similar things. You also get the priceless feeling of warm fuzziness for helping us out.

My own Last.FM listening data is patchy for one reason and another but I did manage to get a decent graph up. I was delighted that it didn’t include some of the kids tunes I’d been downloading recently for my four-year-old’s birthday party, however it does show my recent guilty pleasure of revisiting the REM back catalogue…

Top tip – try out creating posters in different colours and in high resolution and you can zoom in close to what look like the sedimentary layers of listening… nice. The LastGraph guys should be linking this through to a Threadless concession. Seriously.