During the course of our daily lives, we all perform several tasks each day. However, most of our time nowadays is spent on our personal computers and laptops. The data visualization I am talking about in this post turned into a stunning piece of art. Margin Ignac created a data visualization from his activities on the computer spanning around 2.5 years-web surfing, working on excel sheets, playing games etc.
He created this stunning visualization of the data collected from his computer over the course of two and half years documenting every small detail. He documented each activity usage that happened on his computer in every minute of the two and half years including the time when his computer was switched off.
He represented each day as a line with a different color for each different application that was running in the foreground at that moment on a black background.
ta The data visualization looks well documented with a clear distinction for all the applications and patterns. We can easily make out different patterns like sleep hours, travels, holiday times from the distinct black areas between the colorful lines. Along with this, he further documented details like mouse clicks and keyboard hits. Although the data visualization isn’t of any prominent commercial use, the idea is well implemented and the results are stunning. His final info-graphics were shown at the Click Festival in Denmark in 2012.
References: http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/25-years-of-computer-usage-turned-into-a-stunning-data-visualization