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Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

vruba@everything.happens.horse ("Charlie Loyd") wrote:

Okay, fine, @jonty cajoled me into it. Lighter is more traffic; warmer is more positive anomaly for the day.

Now, certain nerds and haters might squint at this and say “It looks like you did this in oklab color space and then tried to half-ass some gamut mapping when you remembered that a lot of the highest z scores are in places with very low traffic counts!” and I would rebut that in scrupulous detail with one simple argument: Good night.

Attachments:

• An animation similar to the two previous versions but combining raw request count with anomaly, so that transient events are in red. There is a ~2 Hz pulse of blue, showing the weekly cycle of lower use on the weekends. (remote)