Over the years, I have had several projects that remained unfinished, undeployed. The reasons varied: business decisions, technical merit, you name it. But darn it, the work I have done on at least some of these projects makes me feel proud, their ultimate lack of success notwithstanding.
This silly little project is an analog clock, with the hours arranged in alphabetic order. Available in four languages.
I came across an interesting data set: an illustration of how housing prices vary relative to disposable income in OECD countries. I wanted to create a map that shows this data set visually. To be sure, there are some online tools that do this, and I also learned how to do it using the R language. But, I figured, it should be possible to build a simple interactive tool that suits my needs.
Well, I did just that, with the help, this time around, of the Grok-2 AI. (Yes, I know, I know... But it works.) Here's another example, a map of GDP per capita, latest (as of early 2025) available values around the world:
The tool is easy to use: Just click Choose File and upload a CSV (comma-separate values) containing rows with country names (most commonly used names are accepted) and values. You can adjust the range of colors and also the values associated with them; values outside the range will be colored the same.
