Archive for March, 2009

Listen to the radio - for 100 days

Friday, March 27th, 2009

I got the chance to collect some data from the playlists of some of the radio stations, which belong to the public northern German broadcasting, NDR. I created some tables, where you can see, which songs and artists where played most in the last 100 days. I am sure, the NDR has his own statistics, but I’ve never seen them in public. That is why I am showing a little view at it here.

See the tables here

Data Matrix Code web image analysis

Friday, March 13th, 2009

After I decoded a lot of QR Code images, it was an easy step to download Data Matrix Code images and find out, what kind of content people encode in these. For those, who are interested, for the decoding, I used the libdmtx library. As a backup, I used other libraries to check, if the code was really a Data Matrix or if the content of the image contained other types of codes. Therefore in some cases, I found QRcodes and 1D Barcodes, which is effected by the results of the image search engines.

Read the results