[An even more mundane topic, unless you like visualizing data] So I wrote a few newsposts ago that I've been watching the world go by since around mid-2022. One of my #100 resolutions/challenges/goals/projects for 2022 was to rank each day with a numeric score- and I did just that.
Never got around to publishing the results until now. Or any stuff from 2022 for that matter...
January 2025 went by quite fast. It was a better January than 2020, 2023, and 2024, but not 2021 and 2022. I've been staying busy, working a lot and for the first time in years working out a little bit, and trying to get back into some hobbies. So there's less time for wallowing like I have been doing the past couple years, but also less time to be lazy and have fun. I'm slowly getting a bit more control of my life following my December midlife crisis (which I have yet to write about) and I've got a long road ahead of me. I definitely have some health issues I need to properly address, anxieties that lower my quality of life, and bad habits to correct. So doing better, but still feel like I'm not doing enough.
I think the practice of new year resolutions is quite silly, the day is arbitrary, real change should be made at any time and when one is ready.
But I suppose it's okay to like silly things for fun. I also have fun putting arbitrary time periods in perspective, giving them 'power rankings' like each year or month are sports teams competing against each other.
All 365 days in a cool heatmap. Blues are bad pinks are decent. First glance looks like an overall not bad year...
Best month was February with a 5.96 and worst month was November with a round average of 5.00.
There wasn't a specific favorable day of the week; worst day was Monday with an average of 5.33 and best day was Thursday with an average of 5.63.
Same info as the heatmap but easier to visualize chronologically with a scatter plot. No discernible trends.
Histogram shows vast majority of days were okay and slightly positive.
Frivolities abound...
Days are ranked from 0-10 with 10 being a once in a lifetime enriching experience (e.g. birth of first child) and 0 being an absolutely horrible day (e.g. death of a loved one). I only had days ranking from 2-7. Most were 5-6; never too high, never too low. 5 is supposed to be the midpoint and neutral; but if you saw a 5/10 on a movie or flash animation, you may not think it's very good, and a 5/10 on a test is a failing grade.
0: Worst Days Ever
1: ???
2: Terrible Day
3: Bad Day
4: Not a Good Day
5: Meh Day
6: Slightly Positive Day/Content/No Major Complaints
7: Good Day
8: Great Day
9: ???
10: Best Days Ever
Not sure how much great days I've had as an adult. Last one was in 2021...
Cyberdevil
How did you track all of these? Seems like you have more than just the visual data in that first image, since you show it in different ways like this...
I remember this one... fun to see how it actually turned out. And overall not a bad year at all huh, if an overall average good is a cumulative well. Reminds me of that 'if you're just happy 65% of the time, then you're pretty happy' quote. That good lies more in the appreciation of time than in true bliss, which may not truly exist, but maybe that's just cynical thinking...
Tempting to start measuring my days too hmm. I think I won't, but writing a diary every day it'd probably be possible to go through days later on and get some kind of similar heatmap...
S3C
It was a text file with 365 days, each assigned a numerical score from 0-10. That's all the underlying data is...
The visuals were made 85% in ChatGPT, that is, it was coded entirely in Python and ChatGPT generated roughly 85% of the code for it. I finally bit the bullet last month and jumped on the AI train. It's basically a stackOverflow search on steroids, and it retains the context from previous questions. It still gets things wrongs quite a bit. You just have to point it out and guide the system a bit. You still need to know how to debug your code if the AI tends to go down a path based on some bad fundamentals. More on this in a new blog post later...I hope
So AI is not in a state yet where it's ready to takeover programming jobs but its still is more efficient than building stuff from scratch especially if you've forgotten the framework. And they already say 90% of programming is knowing what to Google. Kinda like drag-and-drop and coding blocks that minimizes the programming tasks some, AI prompt-based 'programming' is the future paradigm of tech. If you're not using it, you're gonna be left in the dust.
you could also run your 100-words entries (which I can no longer find on CyberD) through a sentiment analyzer and ask it to assign a score...