2012 Personal Annual Report

Cool, beautiful, clever, engrossing, and yet something about it bothered me.<p>It took me a while, but then it hit me: This is a beautiful display of <i>inputs</i>.<p>Where are the outputs?<p>Where is the gorgeous dashboard that shows the results of all your hard work and the benefits that others got from them? That's something I'd love to see.

Beautiful design, but a little depressing as a picture of a life: work, transit, texts, coffee, neutral facial expressions.

This is amazing! For those who haven't seen this already, Stephen Wolfram's been tracking such data for over 20 years (<a href="http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytics-of-my-life/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytic...</a>).<p>I'm going to try to track some of my data this year. I'm more interested in health data - sleep, exercise etc. It'll be interesting to see how other activities relate to sleep and exercise.

Beautiful. I would pay for a product that I could just turn on in the background and get reports like this daily.

What tools do you use to collect this data? Looks great, by the way.

Has a use been found for this visualization, or is it simply info-porn? What lessons can be drawn from this data? I must admit, I'm having trouble not classifying this as a waste of time--the result of the evolution-bred desire for tool-making, misapplied.

How do you track your sleep time? Anything with Fitbit or just hand writing/computer/mobile entry?

You could start using whatpulse to track your typing too (<a href="http://whatpulse.org" rel="nofollow">http://whatpulse.org</a>) and if you listen to music last.fm would be great too (<a href="http://last.fm" rel="nofollow">http://last.fm</a>)<p>There was a really awesome program called Wakoopa that tracked program usage for a few years, but they shut down their social portion last year :( <a href="http://social.wakoopa.com/" rel="nofollow">http://social.wakoopa.com/</a>

Really cool! So what aspects of the report surprised you?

Could you include a beard length index next year? I'm not certain, but it definitely looks like it grew out somewhat over the year.<p>I'm all for a proper beard!

Was the coffee move from Carte Blanche to Bourbon Coffee due to a change in location or a change in preference?

Thanks for the great presentation. I especially like the weekday/month visualization.

Any reason behind the move to Starbucks as the end of the year?

I did a similar report last year, focusing more on consumption (books, movies..) <a href="http://johanrhodin.se/RhodinReport/RhodinReport2011.html" rel="nofollow">http://johanrhodin.se/RhodinReport/RhodinReport2011.html</a> Hopefully this can be automated. I still have too many manual steps to perform.

Good job presenting the data as usual, Jehiah! The d3 stuff looks nice :)

Looks like the "water" and "I'm a Mac" shirts are big winners.

Go on vacation at the end of July/beginning of August?

what did you use to take pictures from your webcam periodically? If it's a python script, could you please share your code with us?

Lots of fun data here that is visualized well. Unfortunately Safari crashed several times on my iPad 1 while trying to load it. :(

The 24x365 matrices for both <i>Coffee</i> and <i>Computer activity</i> -- perfect level of abstraction

At first I thought this post was poking fun at the Bingo Card creator-style annual reports.

A very beautiful way to combine together lots of tiny snippets of data. Great fun!

for a moment I tought someone from czech republic made it to top of HN

and that was awesome!