Moving Right Along: Part 2 of a Yearlong Personal Data Project
This is the second installment of a yearlong data visualization journey. If you want to read the first part before diving in, here’s the article about my food-themed data collection!
Over the course of the last four weeks, I’ve been collecting data about different types of movement in my life. Just like the first visualization I did with my last theme, I started with a literal interpretation of “movement” before moving on to more conceptual definitions. When I think of moving, I think about walking places, especially because COVID has understandably limited travel, so I decided to record every time I walked to a different room of my house.
I had a ton of data at the end of week five because I recorded not only rooms I intended to go to, like my bedroom or the kitchen, but also rooms that I just happened to pass through, like the foyer or sitting room. Due to the sheer amount of noise in this dataset, I decided to only visualize the times when that room was my destination. This decision led to cleaner data and told a more specific story that gave me some insight into where I spend most of my time.
It’s obvious from the floor plan that I spend a large share of my days on the third floor in my bedroom, my bathroom, and the rec room. I have a table set up in the rec room where I attend…
