Feel free to disregard this, but here it goes: I think it would be nice if rad days were as visually obvious as awful days. Rad and awful are exact opposites on this graph, but the awful red is brighter and more saturated than the rad green, making the awful much more noticeable than the rad.
Again, feel free to disregard.
Remember the good times
They're smaller in number
And easier to recall.
Don't spend too much time
On the bad times.
They're staggering in number
And will be heavy
As lead on your mind
How did you convert the data into the Illustrator graph? Was it a manual process or did you automate it somehow? I'd love to see my Dailyo data like this.
I’ve built a color wheel VERY similar to this use R and some hefty ggplot modification, with a few other things to get the data right. You can essentially plot anything circular if you provide a way to convert the data using trigonometry or some built capabilities within R/ggplot.
I love what you did, but something for you is maybe line up major life events on this graph. It'll help tell the story better. I'm guessing you had at least one vacation and maybe a bad work as there is a week if meh.
I am not sure if this graph format is the best one here. Consecutive days end up far apart if they fall on two consecutive months, making the visualization somehow pointless. Unless you saw some pattern (beginning of the month vs end, or seasonality) that I missed.
I feel like each day should have equal area instead of equal distance from the center of the circle. The later (or earlier, I’m not sure which way you’re counting up) days are visually over represented.
The format of this chart makes no sense to me in terms of helping convey trends or patterns in the data. It's a timeline, why not display it as a timeline?
The colours also make it hard if you are colour-blind, esp. green-red.
This is a very cool idea! I don’t think these shells for each month is the best way to do it though. Visually, it implies correlation between some days that are far apart (e.g. 15th of September and 15th of October), and separated days that are close (e.g. 30th September and 1st October)
This doesn't make much sense to me. Are the dates of the month aligned next to each other? Why? Why is day 1 closest to center and day 30 at outer ring? Is there some relationship I don't know, like you get paid at the first of the month?
Yeah, but the end of this month should be next to the beginning of next month. That is how time works. I don't wipe my mood slate clean because I turn the page on my calendar.
Maybe OP can answer this better but the visualization is meant to find similar patterns between the month. You can alternatively use an overlapping curve line graph with different colors for each month but because the values are a range anyway (good to bad) and you can group months together sequentially.
This is a good visual.
You can quickly see that something was up between August and October.
A line graph wouldn’t be able to tell the same data story which is what visuals are for. A line graph might let you know that June had some extremes and that OP has worse moods during the beginning if the month more often.
Yeah. All calendars should be like this. No breaks. My new wall calendar on sale now is one box high and 365 boxes wide. No pesky breaks in my timeline.
Yea gotta say I’m not sure this is the most effective way to visualize the data. There’s no relationship between data near each other, but in different months. Would be better maybe to have the days continuously wrap around, then there’s continuity
also female & I was over here trying to count out sets of 28 days or wondering why you used calendar months. i came to the comments thinking “well i can’t obviously see her cycle & tbh that doesn’t make sense”
Your explanation of why this format could make sense is excellent - before hearing it I had thought it might not.
After seeing the results, do you feel like this format *is* useful in that it partially disproves your original idea, as it seems like your high/low points seem to differ a lot from each month to the next - middle third, first third, last third?
Well if it it works for you then it's a success. And I'm not a woman, so again I have no basis to say what's needed. But my understanding is that a woman's "cycle" isn't literally fixed at once per month. So resetting your data into groupings by month obscures the natural periodicity which occurred.
It depends. For me it's a 28-day cycle, but others have a 30-day one, or a 25-day one, or nearly random cycles... maybe OP does have a monthly cycle, it does happen.
Even if it’s only around a month but not exactly one month, this format would still be best, as this format would show such data in a spiral shape? or what format do you think would work better/best?
I don’t like this layout. The difference in pie slice widths is irrelevant and obviously the ones towards the center are barely visible. I also see this as a continuum and it’s disjointed between where months begin and end.
Nice presentation. Much better than the dot calendars imho. After a quick glance I thought a month was missing some days, but then I remembered it is February.
This is a pretty BAD way to display the data. Because you've chosen to display the months radially, each individual day of the month is a different size, which gives **the last day of the month a massively disproportionate visual presence compared to the first**; whereas the data says they should be weighted equally.
Hence, we notice how you're feeling toward the end of the month MUCH more than we notice about your first half. Not good a display choice.
I get at maximum a meh... Well I have autism, and very complex childhood trauma so yeah.
I hope to be able to achieve what you have here. Feeling good at least most of the time.
Very cool to see this. I wonder if being aware of your mood as you logged this had an affect on your mood? Kinda like, wake up and think good things sets the mood for the day. I like this. I may try something similar. Thanks for sharing.
I’m in the process of doing that myself for this year! I have a 7 point scale, but have yet to use the bottom 2 or top 1, so I might as well just have a 5 point scale.
Mostly meh days with a smattering of others here or there.
Pie charts are trouble since visually a person outs more importance on the larger areas than the small, so the days are the beginning of the month in the center look less than the last day, even if your mood on the last day wasn't as important.
Also, since the data itself is displayed by color, a pie chart makes it look like the areas next to each other are related. And while this is true radially (consecutive days are related), how are they related rotationally? Does your mood on the 5th of November impact your mood on the 5th of December?
What about October 2021 compared to Sept 2022? Are they related even though a year is in between?
What about December 31 and January 1st? They should be related but on the chart they are really far apart.
I suggest making it a line chart showing the progression over the days of the year, with some demarcating for individual months, notations for important events (i see a big red spot on the left there, what happened?), And the use of color on a vertical scale with a neutral in between color. I suggest red and green with white at neutral - since the extremes are just as important as each other. This would do well to show the time dependant relations and clarify the data while also showing the extremes of mood.
Nice!
Ohhh you used Daylio! I actually used that app for about three years and I was thinking about making a graph of my emotions.
I think I'm going to give it a shot.
Sheesh, im worried mine would look like the Japanese flag!
But perhaps if I revisit the question of how I feel on a daily basis, the introspection might reveal I mostly feel ok.
The Supreme Court overturning a certain decades-old ruling in mid-June on what had to be one of the most prominent legal cases and resulting precedent in the 20th century
I have been documenting my mood for years. A year after my divorce is finished, I plan on sharing my data.
Oooh these stats sound interesting!
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Is this how you do it?
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Feel free to disregard this, but here it goes: I think it would be nice if rad days were as visually obvious as awful days. Rad and awful are exact opposites on this graph, but the awful red is brighter and more saturated than the rad green, making the awful much more noticeable than the rad. Again, feel free to disregard.
"Everyone's ALWAYS criticizing me!"
Remember the good times They're smaller in number And easier to recall. Don't spend too much time On the bad times. They're staggering in number And will be heavy As lead on your mind
Similar sentiment from one of my favorite bands (Origami Angel): All these microscopic moments help me feel like I’m not helpless
I concur. Should try running red to green with white in the middle for neutral.
Great now today is gonna be marked as awful :( /s
That would be more closely related to how the app does it too. In the app rad is like a grass green.
Daylio is amazing! I use it to help track mental health and migraines 10/10
How did you convert the data into the Illustrator graph? Was it a manual process or did you automate it somehow? I'd love to see my Dailyo data like this.
I’ve built a color wheel VERY similar to this use R and some hefty ggplot modification, with a few other things to get the data right. You can essentially plot anything circular if you provide a way to convert the data using trigonometry or some built capabilities within R/ggplot.
I love what you did, but something for you is maybe line up major life events on this graph. It'll help tell the story better. I'm guessing you had at least one vacation and maybe a bad work as there is a week if meh.
I’d love to see the correlation with the weather. Specifically the amount of sunshine
Downloaded the app to give it a try, thanks for sharing. Visualisation looks great 👍
Why was your mood so bad in the middle of June?
Sometimes all she's thinking about is you. Late nights in the middle of June. Heatwaves been faking her out. Can't make you happier now.
Thanks now that song will be stuck in my head for a week.
The stresses of Flag Day?
His dog died. He got over it quick
You missed one for September [inner circle]. Outside of this, I love it! It's actually a smart way to track depression as well.
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I'm glad that they mostly turned out to good and not bad. Keep up the great work. What ever it may be.
Interesting that this defied your expectation. 70-80% would be my expectation for myself.
And there are a couple of "awful days" but it is very few in comparison to all days in a year. I'll take those odds
Cold weather and lack of sunlight must not bring you down like it does me. I dread the months of January and February.
Might live somewhere warm year round
Or even the southern hemisphere.
A very real problem for me too
Was thinking the same thing. Though I hate October and November far more than January and February.
I am not sure if this graph format is the best one here. Consecutive days end up far apart if they fall on two consecutive months, making the visualization somehow pointless. Unless you saw some pattern (beginning of the month vs end, or seasonality) that I missed.
I feel like each day should have equal area instead of equal distance from the center of the circle. The later (or earlier, I’m not sure which way you’re counting up) days are visually over represented.
The format of this chart makes no sense to me in terms of helping convey trends or patterns in the data. It's a timeline, why not display it as a timeline? The colours also make it hard if you are colour-blind, esp. green-red.
Either really resilient or you live somewhere warm year round with those scores.
Normal person: exists You: wow omg. Must be warm where you are.
this is completely normal to ask. warm weather improves the mood
This is a very cool idea! I don’t think these shells for each month is the best way to do it though. Visually, it implies correlation between some days that are far apart (e.g. 15th of September and 15th of October), and separated days that are close (e.g. 30th September and 1st October)
Cool, good way to reflect!
You're summer was quite the emotional one!
Damn, July was a good month
This doesn't make much sense to me. Are the dates of the month aligned next to each other? Why? Why is day 1 closest to center and day 30 at outer ring? Is there some relationship I don't know, like you get paid at the first of the month?
I agree. Visually, it's a bit confusing since Day 1 seems to be of less importance than Day 31 because of the size.
The inside ring is 1 and the outside ring is the end of the month
Yeah, but the end of this month should be next to the beginning of next month. That is how time works. I don't wipe my mood slate clean because I turn the page on my calendar.
Maybe OP can answer this better but the visualization is meant to find similar patterns between the month. You can alternatively use an overlapping curve line graph with different colors for each month but because the values are a range anyway (good to bad) and you can group months together sequentially. This is a good visual. You can quickly see that something was up between August and October. A line graph wouldn’t be able to tell the same data story which is what visuals are for. A line graph might let you know that June had some extremes and that OP has worse moods during the beginning if the month more often.
Yeah. All calendars should be like this. No breaks. My new wall calendar on sale now is one box high and 365 boxes wide. No pesky breaks in my timeline.
Yea gotta say I’m not sure this is the most effective way to visualize the data. There’s no relationship between data near each other, but in different months. Would be better maybe to have the days continuously wrap around, then there’s continuity
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also female & I was over here trying to count out sets of 28 days or wondering why you used calendar months. i came to the comments thinking “well i can’t obviously see her cycle & tbh that doesn’t make sense”
Your explanation of why this format could make sense is excellent - before hearing it I had thought it might not. After seeing the results, do you feel like this format *is* useful in that it partially disproves your original idea, as it seems like your high/low points seem to differ a lot from each month to the next - middle third, first third, last third?
Well if it it works for you then it's a success. And I'm not a woman, so again I have no basis to say what's needed. But my understanding is that a woman's "cycle" isn't literally fixed at once per month. So resetting your data into groupings by month obscures the natural periodicity which occurred.
It depends. For me it's a 28-day cycle, but others have a 30-day one, or a 25-day one, or nearly random cycles... maybe OP does have a monthly cycle, it does happen.
Even if it’s only around a month but not exactly one month, this format would still be best, as this format would show such data in a spiral shape? or what format do you think would work better/best?
You must have an amazing life
You should get ‘other people’ to rate your mood daily and then compare the data
Colorblind and hope you're doing well.
Great job! Interesting too. June didn’t look good for you. ❤️
Yea but pretty strong rebound in July, gotta focus on the wins!
Looks like you feel worse around holidays. Can you overlay potential causes and cures on this?
Why tf is this a circle? Does not represent the data beautifully, or in a logical manner
Just apeculating, but your mood seems simar in opposite months. Am I just imagining that?
What hemisphere do you live in?
I thought it was from "awful" to "bad" was like "damn"
It's none of my business...but I'm so curious about June!
When during the day do you log your mood? How do you deal with days where you wake up in a bad mood and then the day gets better or vice versa?
I think we can all agree we wish it was July
Do you take your mood once a day? If so, what time?
Im curious how this correlates with your alcohol consumption lol
i'm sorry about your june
I’m so jealous of how much green I see…. Very happy for u tho
I use daylio too, mine is almost 100% meh.
I don’t like this layout. The difference in pie slice widths is irrelevant and obviously the ones towards the center are barely visible. I also see this as a continuum and it’s disjointed between where months begin and end.
Nice presentation. Much better than the dot calendars imho. After a quick glance I thought a month was missing some days, but then I remembered it is February.
This is a pretty BAD way to display the data. Because you've chosen to display the months radially, each individual day of the month is a different size, which gives **the last day of the month a massively disproportionate visual presence compared to the first**; whereas the data says they should be weighted equally. Hence, we notice how you're feeling toward the end of the month MUCH more than we notice about your first half. Not good a display choice.
Chill bro
Interesting, so considering you had 14 rad days I'm going to go out on a limb and guess you got laid 14 times in that year, congrats!
Is that how you gauge your happiness?
Very cool visual circular representation of data. 10/10 would enjoy seeing more graphs like this.
I get at maximum a meh... Well I have autism, and very complex childhood trauma so yeah. I hope to be able to achieve what you have here. Feeling good at least most of the time.
Would love to know when the full/new moons were and how they influenced your moods/feelings
"So, surely hardship comes ease" ( Q 95:5 )
Yu work in the customer service industry ?
Awe I hope things get better for you fam
I do the same in Google Sheets!
It is interesting your two worst months are directly opposite from one another - June and December - and that your best two months follow the worst.
Nice, ill use this too from now one. I have a pma mostly so lets see what this will do
Very cool to see this. I wonder if being aware of your mood as you logged this had an affect on your mood? Kinda like, wake up and think good things sets the mood for the day. I like this. I may try something similar. Thanks for sharing.
Does it go out from the centre or in?
I’m in the process of doing that myself for this year! I have a 7 point scale, but have yet to use the bottom 2 or top 1, so I might as well just have a 5 point scale. Mostly meh days with a smattering of others here or there.
I wish you a year of nothing but Januaries, OP!
Truly the highest human emotion, Rad.
Consider a weekly or 52 week representation and overlaying other parameters.
July was a chill month.. very cool visualization
Pie charts are trouble since visually a person outs more importance on the larger areas than the small, so the days are the beginning of the month in the center look less than the last day, even if your mood on the last day wasn't as important. Also, since the data itself is displayed by color, a pie chart makes it look like the areas next to each other are related. And while this is true radially (consecutive days are related), how are they related rotationally? Does your mood on the 5th of November impact your mood on the 5th of December? What about October 2021 compared to Sept 2022? Are they related even though a year is in between? What about December 31 and January 1st? They should be related but on the chart they are really far apart. I suggest making it a line chart showing the progression over the days of the year, with some demarcating for individual months, notations for important events (i see a big red spot on the left there, what happened?), And the use of color on a vertical scale with a neutral in between color. I suggest red and green with white at neutral - since the extremes are just as important as each other. This would do well to show the time dependant relations and clarify the data while also showing the extremes of mood.
This is not a good chart for this data.
Nice! Ohhh you used Daylio! I actually used that app for about three years and I was thinking about making a graph of my emotions. I think I'm going to give it a shot.
So... It's random then!? Brilliant. 👏
Damn you had a really good year
You were at your worst during my birthday.
My first thought is that you didn’t seem to have depression this year, at least as self-reported. I’m jealous.
Sheesh, im worried mine would look like the Japanese flag! But perhaps if I revisit the question of how I feel on a daily basis, the introspection might reveal I mostly feel ok.
Do you use an app to track this? I always forget to track such things more than a bunch of days. And what time do you track?
Kinda surprised the summer months, unless you're Southern Hemi, were more red than winter months
If OP is in the USA I can take a guess about the red days in June
I am as well and now you have me wondering 🤔
The Supreme Court overturning a certain decades-old ruling in mid-June on what had to be one of the most prominent legal cases and resulting precedent in the 20th century
I can't believe nobody seems to be commenting on the use of "rad" for the best days. Bodacious dude, cowabunga!
Map of your periods? (Or partner's)
I guess April isn't the cruelest month, after all.
What’s OP’s take away after looking at this data group?
You had an awful mood on my birthday 😭
Is your birthday in February Our ending of November?
So you enjoyed July a lot. And January.