Project #6 Data Portrait
Description
Description I reseived
For Assignment 6, you will spend a week tracking a personal habit of yours to create a data-self portrait. Choose the personal habit mindfully — you will need to collect 20 ~ 50 data points for this assignment. Record the data onto a numbered list every time it happens, and translate the list into array in p5.js. Animate your data self-portrait using any of the programming concepts you’ve learned in this class. Include an instruction on your CC portfolio to teach your audience how to read your data self-portrait.
Describtion for my Data Portrait
This is the data of me from 10/10 to 10/19 total 10 days of sleep (per hour), coffee intake (per cup), and candy intake (per pick-up). Hovering on top of the middle bar to check what those numbers mean and their measurements.
Design sketches
My planning sketches on my notebook
The testing feild
The try-out design
In this testing field, I graybox the layout and try out if the for loop works or not. Also this is the place for me to test out if I like the arrangement or not. (using only grayscale)
Reflection
What did you learn about yourself through the process of self-tracking?
I learned that I really increase my chance of picking up candy when I don't have that much sleep. (because my mood is not that good and because my self-control ability has decrease) Also, I thought how many cups of coffee would be a huge factor if I slept less. However, that's not the case. I guess I was still a little bit traumatized last year by having too much coffee and ended up being too uncomfortable about that.
What was gained / lost through the process of data visualization?
Since I chose to present my data with a graph. Some data was not that clear. For example, the amount of coffee was by per cup. the graph is kind of unclear. Also, the type of candy I have consumed is unclear. This is only data on how many times I physically went to grab candy and put it in my mouth.
What I have learned (coding language)
* for
* array