One Life, One Stacked Area Chart
Ben Fogarty uses a stacked area chart to represent his life. To us outsiders looking in it's not much more than that, but to Ben I am sure there is a story in every peak and valley. It's like a "this is your life" slideshow in data.
This is the drive behind your.flowingdata. I don't think YFD is even remotely close yet to developing a personal narrative, but it's something to shoot for. I can imagine a lifetime of data replaying and watching it unfold like a movie. That'd be amazing. Then again, I might also end up like Jerry in Act 3 of Episode 88 in This American Life. Fingers crossed for the former.
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FlowingData Spreads Awareness with Data + Design Prints
FlowingPrints tells stories with data and then puts it in print to spread awareness (and makes your walls pretty, in that cool, nerdy sort of way).
This series is on the state of education. For every order, FlowingPrints will send a print to local education, on your behalf.
FlowingData explores how statisticians, designers, and computer scientists are using data to help us understand more about ourselves and our surroundings.
I like how “storytelling” ends up looking like a lake and a river.
It’d be pretty cool to look back on your life with a chart like this. Seeing how much time you devoted to certain areas might help you decide what’s important and allow you to change your behavior, too.
I had to smile how “Listening” was non-existent right around the time he got married. =)
Great visual. Now I just need to build about 10 million of these for our customers and see what the rollup looks like. Bet there’s a bit more TV in the mainstream.