According to WebMD, for 1- to 4-week-olds: “Since newborns do not yet have an internal biological clock, or circadian rhythm, their sleep patterns are not related to the daylight and nighttime cycles. In fact, they tend not to have much of a pattern at all.” I think somebody forgot to tell my internal clock to grow up.
Data Underload #18 – Sleep Schedule
I would have rotated this graph so that the age comes on the vertical axis and the daytime – on the horizontal one
Agreed, a horizontal day schedule feels more intuitive. Would make the labelling more efficient, too. Other than that, nice graphing!
i saw it as a timeline over a person’s life though, so i went for age on the horizontal. maybe ‘sleep time’ would’ve been a better title.
Yeah, generally you have measurable time on the horizontal axis, and “whatever else” on the vertical. I’d regard it as Sleep-Time vs. Stages of life.
But yeah, it’s really cool to see this data laid out like that, I’m 24, and I fit quite snugly into the “college” band :) Though I’ll be honest, probably not by design, but by act of noisy neighbours >_<
Anyway, spot on!
Conventionally, independent variables go on the x axis and dependent variable on the y axis. Call me conventional, but I think it’s fine.
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I think many parenting stage adults should have half-awake stage as well. LOL
Not everyone goes the parenting route, but everyone (if they live that long) goes through these stages.
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Though I immediately got what the display was to be about, I still have a very hard time actually reading it. I guess to be effective for me it needs something more, or less, or else.
I like this one a lot, really cool presentation. I also enjoy it because my one week old baby is sleeping next to me right now and we have no idea what time(s) she will be waking up tonight :)
one-week old baby? congrats!
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LOL eternity…
Perhaps a small blip in the “work life” sector to reflect the sleep disruption of the average number of infant progeny would be appropriate. I think it would be funny if it reflected the infant’s random sleep schedule.
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Anyone with a baby who wants to track their sleep-wake patterns might want to take a look at trixie tracker, it has nice visualizations as well.
http://trixietracker.com/
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There should be a stage for parenthood where you don’t sleep at all.
I too enjoyed this one very much.
Perhaps the 60+ range could use at least one skinny, yellow horizontal line halfway between Midnight and 6am to indicate the need to “take care of business” at least once in the middle of the night?
I think there aught to be some thin sleep lines scattered during lectures in the college age too…
sleep during lecture? heresy.
17 years old and have been ahead of schedule for years.
I’m awake roughly 6pm-10am when left unchecked. No, not 10am-6pm.
ha ha i sleep worse then a 40 year old usually i go to bed at 2 or 6 and wake up at 10 or 12 in the afternoon :)
and i don’t even work!
also my dad is 40 and he’s retired and still sleeps like a 40 year old :O
Thanks! Now I know to make mischief only at around 4am