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Personal data visualization has a huge advantage over other types of visualization. Personal visualization is about you, for you, and the data is from you. That’s a ton of background information with very little effort. As Jeffrey Heer noted in Socializing Visualization, people tend to spend more time exploring data when they connect personally to what they are seeing.
This Project’s For You
Running off this idea, this summer project is all about you – literally.
Take a moment and think about the data “flowing” off of you. How much did you spend on coffee over the past month? How much sleep did you get yesterday or the past week? Did you gain or lose weight this year? Look through your past billing statements, your iTunes listening history, or your car’s odometer.
Do you have a certain number (or series of numbers) in your head now? What do you see?
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