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32 lines
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The time has come… to have some phun.
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Sooooo, we want to extend the challenge by providing some nice data sets you can get creative with.
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When we think data, we lust for computer readable *stuff*
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But the real world teaches us on tough lesson every-time we get eager to distil that funky data source only to realize that it is a PDF or even worse a low quality image file with some data already visualized.
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Below we have a heat-map of the pollution levels in Luxembourg City.
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Very valuable data but no real way to extract anything from it.
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Your task could be to come up with the heatmap2text parser.
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Geeks are everywhere and we have taken over the world ever since Grace Hopper wrote her first line of, errr… punch cards.
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One geek niche is the beautifully confusing realm of TimeZones.
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For the *nix folks, more specifically the sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade adventurers, there is a recurring theme in how frequent the package *tzdata* gets updated.
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From countries who have a 30 minute time zone offset to countries who have frequent brawls about daytime savings time, every single weirdness has been meticulously documented by the TZ geeks.
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The following dataset has it all. It is a text file, but that makes it not necessarily very parsable or useful for the rest of us.
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Take a deep breath and look at what is inside. Does it make music? Is there a hidden message? What do all the current time zones look like in the most esoteric diagram you know?
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Play with it. You have all the creative liberties on this one. May it be an interactive tzdata map, or an audio generator.
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Time zone data can be art, oh wait, there is even an FTP location with examples :D
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FTP
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