{"id":2409,"date":"2017-05-27T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/?p=2409"},"modified":"2017-05-27T00:01:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T00:01:00","slug":"sleeping-cycle-of-newborn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/2017\/05\/27\/sleeping-cycle-of-newborn\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleeping Cycle of Newborn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Australian Redittor Andrew Elloitt had a fascinating idea of quantifying his child&#8217;s first few months of life using Baby connect iPhone app.\u00a0Using the app, he built\u00a0a comprehensive database of his daughter&#8217;s sleep and wake cycles for every single day of the first six months of her life. \u00a0He then created a stunning visualization using\u00a0 CAD package Rhinoceros and Adobe illustrator which looks like this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i.reddituploads.com\/10f961abe2744c90844287efdd75ba47?fit=max&amp;h=1536&amp;w=1536&amp;s=f019986ae2343e243ed97811b9f500fe\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1536\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The above visualization represents six months of wakefulness and sleep &#8211; indicated by yellow and blue patters respectively. \u00a0Birth is at the center of the spiral. As she gets older the spiral pattern wraps in outward direction with each full revolution of circle representing 24 hours. This means if we imagine this as a clock, midnight is at the top and noon is at the bottom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What I liked about this visualization?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This one continuous thread shows six months of baby&#8217;s sleep and wakefulness<\/li>\n<li>The visualization is able to show the baby&#8217;s initial life- the chaos in the middle; as the baby alternately slept and woke during day and night.<\/li>\n<li>After few months, we can see that things start to smooth out. the upper right quarter begins to stay blue prominently, while the rest turns mostly yellow.<\/li>\n<li>We can see dark blue strips in between the yellow part representing naps.<\/li>\n<li>One of the important takeaway from this visualization is that-it represents general patterns in newborns sleep and wakefulness. This is highly useful for parents who have recently had their first child and are going through that initial terrible and frightening time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What I don&#8217;t like about the visualization:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think the insights from the visualization are\u00a0somewhat difficult to get at the first sight. You have to look at it carefully and understand<\/p>\n<p>Considering that the audience of visualization are parents of the newborns, they wont have much time to sit and decipher this cryptic looking life cycle of new born baby.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What might be better:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/img.imagus.co\/17385866755b3a1a6.jpg\" width=\"364\" height=\"226\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The above chart clearly shows that newborns alternate rapidly between sleep and wakefulness.\u00a0As they get older, those sleep cycles begin to consolidate. By toddler age a child may get by on one or two naps a day. Heading into late childhood and early adulthood, naps tend to vanish altogether.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conclusion:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Each newborn is different, of course, especially when it comes to sleep. Part of the reason why parents are scared in the initial period is that their babies don&#8217;t know how to sleep. Babies are yet to\u00a0sync their internal clocks\u00a0to the daily rhythms the rest of us use. The visualization surely gives crucial insights but if we consider the audience to be the parents of new born babies, it fails to convey those insights effectively to the audience.<\/p>\n<p><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/thebrain.mcgill.ca\/ https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/dataisbeautiful\/comments\/5l39mu\/my_daughters_sleeping_patterns_for_the_first_4<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Australian Redittor Andrew Elloitt had a fascinating idea of quantifying his child&#8217;s first few months of life using Baby connect iPhone app.\u00a0Using the app, he built\u00a0a comprehensive database of his daughter&#8217;s sleep and wake cycles for every single day of the first six months of her life. \u00a0He then created a stunning visualization using\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/2017\/05\/27\/sleeping-cycle-of-newborn\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sleeping Cycle of Newborn<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1922,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","kk_blocks_editor_width":"","_kiokenblocks_attr":"","_kiokenblocks_dimensions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"gutentor_comment":0,"qubely_featured_image_url":null,"qubely_author":{"display_name":"atakle","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/author\/atakle\/"},"qubely_comment":0,"qubely_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/category\/uncategorized\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Uncategorized<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"An Australian Redittor Andrew Elloitt had a fascinating idea of quantifying his child&#8217;s first few months of life using Baby connect iPhone app.\u00a0Using the app, he built\u00a0a comprehensive database of his daughter&#8217;s sleep and wake cycles for every single day of the first six months of her life. \u00a0He then created a stunning visualization using\u00a0&hellip;","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1922"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2409"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2435,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions\/2435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}