[OC] I tracked my mood on a five point scale every day for a year (October 2021 - September 2022)bliswell t1_iqyfm9k wrote
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?
eldosoa t1_iqykuhg wrote
I agree. Visually, it's a bit confusing since Day 1 seems to be of less importance than Day 31 because of the size.
sshheelleeyy OP t1_iqyzba3 wrote
Good question. This layout seemed pretty intuitive to me as I'm a woman and experience hormonal (and therefore emotional/mental) fluctuations on a monthly cycle.
no-name-here t1_iqzmmie wrote
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?
girnigoe t1_ir0jhk6 wrote
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”
bliswell t1_iqzmxy4 wrote
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.
dailycyberiad t1_iqzw0eq wrote
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.
no-name-here t1_ir43sq6 wrote
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?
asackofpopcorn t1_iqyki9o wrote
The inside ring is 1 and the outside ring is the end of the month
bliswell t1_iqyo3ge wrote
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.
asackofpopcorn t1_iqyscng wrote
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.
AshmacZilla t1_iqzxv64 wrote
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.
nordic_prophet t1_ir09f4l wrote
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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