Description
I tracked all the 'new' things I did in a week like interacting with new people, getting to know new people, taking new pictures, eating something new, cooking something new,working on something new, watching something new and going to a new place
How to Read:
the number of arcs represents the number of times the following things happened
- red: interacting with someone new (including talking to staff at stores and restaurants)
- orange: getting to know someone new
- yellow: Eating something new
- green:Cooking something new
- blue: Working on something new
- purple: Going to a new place
- magenta: Watching something new
- pink: Pictures of something new
Design Process:
I wanted to track something that I've often wondered about but never bothered to track because it isn't really important knowledge.
I tracked my data in an excel sheet and converted them to 7 arrays which I nested into another array for ease of use.
Using these array, for loops, conditional statements and frameRate adjustments I was able to end up with arcs of data animated to look like they are stacking up one by one.
It was challenging to use arcs to line up and kept getting a lot of strange errors.
Reflection:
It was interesting to realize that I do a lot more new things every week than I realized. I think things feel stagnant when we're busy or a lot of things we do everyday are repetetive but tracking it feels very interesting and puts things into perspective.
I think that there are some issues with the visual with some of the arcs overlapping. I'm not sure how to fix it but I think a different visual can add to how easily this data can be understood. If I were to do this again, I would visualize the data differently in different shapes.
I don't think any data is really lost since it is exactly the same values from my excel sheet but I think there can be more added to it.