Report of the meeting “Wearables and data visualisation” 13-6-13 @ V2_ Present: Ricardo O’Nascimento and Danielle Roberts (organisers), Anja Hertenberger, Meg Grant, Beam van Waardenberg Skype: Annick Bureaud Program: – Introductions – Look at and discuss examples from the web collected in a Pinterest board (http://pinterest.com/docentnv/wearable-dataviz/) – Life demonstration – Discussion – Practical stuff When […]
Author Archives: Danielle
Quantified Self Conference Europe 2013
For me the quantified self conferences are like coming home: getting inspired by hundreds of people who share the same passion. It is hard to make a choice but in this post I would like to list my top three experiences of this QS conference edition. 1. Lonely at the top is the TrueSense wearable […]
breathing_time at the Quantified Self conference
On May 12th I lead a breakout session at the second European quantified self conference in Amsterdam. The goal was to exchange experiences in breath and group tracking and to demo the new, wireless version of the breathing_time concept. I started the breakout with an overview of the previous version. We soon got into a […]
printing and constructing
The worlds thickest block calendar is finished. Last week was spend on printing the 2865 pages, perforating them and constructing the calendar. The printing turned out to be more of a challenge then expected. The inner peace visualisation consists of several layers of circles with varying transparency. Printing those pages resulted in extra thick lines […]
calendar perforation
Being able to tear of pages is an important part of the calendar. So I’ve been investigating the possibilities. At first I hoped the printer, Tiggelman, would just do it for me. Alas their perforation turned out to be too vulnerable. The nice people at St Joost art academy and office supplies Benoist gave me […]
flickr problems
Downloading the big format photo’s from Flickr turned out to be more trouble then I expected. Downloading the small format pictures went like a breeze, as I explained here. But on almost all the big files I got this picture: I suppose I got kicked out. I only realised this when I wanted to integrate […]
test prints
Today I went to make test prints and the results look very promising. The people at Tiggelman repro were very helpful. They suggested I use a paper called Reviva which has a nice newspaper look. The lines I use in my design are only 0.4 pixels thick and the lighter ones were barely visible when […]
days of my life
I’ve been programming hard to shape the pages that will represent my life in the calendar. I’ve used Marcos’ statistics to make a nice backdrop for my pages using the average of stress, energy, mood and inner peace values. Layered on top of that are the distinguishing values for the above parameters. I’ve also already […]
working with data
I’ve been experimenting with the design and data visualisation using the personal data values: mood, stress, energy level and inner peace. Depending on the data value the lines, shapes and tone of each visualisation varies. This will create a different structure for every timeslot in every day. Inner peace will be a big organic and […]
working with images
The calendar contains 863 photographs taken over the last eight years. Some days have multiple pictures most days have no pictures. Using a double loop I loop through the days again and for every day I loop the entire array to get the days where I took more pictures. Once I knew I could detect […]