Clik here to view.
One home’s blackouts in Kyiv
Volodymyr Agafonkin and his family live in Kyiv, Ukraine. He visualized when the power went out over the past two months: As you can see, we spend 4–8 hours in blackout during a typical day. You can...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Every hour tracked, for five years
In the department of tedious and thorough, Reddit user _tsweezy_ tracked every hour of his life for five years. It’s like a personal American Time Use Survey diary for slightly longer than a single...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tracking hundreds of pizza slices
For eight years, Liam Quigley tracked every slice of pizza he ate in New York City, which added up to 454 slices. Quigley did not rate the slices to “avoid controversy and bribes”, but I kind of wish...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Stripper earnings tracked over four years
Reddit user nerdydancing tracked her earnings on each shift for four years. If any dataset promised stories behind each data point, it is probably this one. Tags: income, stripper
View ArticleClik here to view.
Life timeline in a spreadsheet
Coming up on 40 years old, Emmett Shear, perhaps best known as a co-founder of Twitch, reflected on his time so far using a spreadsheet. He marked where he lived in the left column, years run top to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Data portrait of a life with long Covid
Giorgia Lupi, known for using data visualization to connect real life and numbers, has been dealing with long Covid for the past three years. In a visual guest essay for NYT Opinion, Lupi describes her...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Data-driven running journal
K.K. Rebecca Lai ran her first marathon. She recounts her training and the day of the event with a series of maps and charts. It reads like a data-driven journal entry, which I am always up for. Tags:...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Analysis of text messages with an ex-boyfriend
Teresa Ibarra used Facebook Messenger to text with her now ex-boyfriend almost a decade ago. She exported the messages and analyzed keywords and topics used over the one-year relationship. I can’t say...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Analysis of Sudoku play patterns
Vivek Rao likes to play Sudoku, enough that he collected data on his gameplay and analyzed his strategies: In January 2023, I made a breakthrough. I started tracking what grids I fill out and how I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tracking time wasted scrolling
Ben Grosser made a personal mini-site that indicates whether or not he’s on TikTok: Stuck in the Scroll is a compulsive scrolling monitor that reveals, in real-time, whether I’m currently scrolling...
View Article