{"id":40,"date":"2022-10-02T19:10:14","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T11:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cde22.education.ed.ac.uk\/cmcneil\/?p=40"},"modified":"2022-10-02T19:10:14","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T11:10:14","slug":"visualising-screen-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cde22.education.ed.ac.uk\/cmcneil\/2022\/10\/02\/visualising-screen-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Visualising Screen Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Inspired by Dear Data<\/a>, I wanted to attempt another data visualisation using a theme and data set of my choice. As my visualisation practice, I choose to explore my screen time usage on my iPhone for over one week. I decided on screen time for two reasons: one, I knew the data had already been collected via my device, and two, I was curious about how I might display that usage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While exploring the data from the screen time section of my iPhone, I knew I had to focus on a story. The data available was extensive, so I opted to focus on one aspect. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Screen time data<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I created a visualisation of the top five apps that were used each day and their contribution to my screen time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I opted just to focus on the top five apps from each day, to paint a picture of my usage over the week. I chose not to display overall screen time use for the day or the week as I felt this would overcomplicate my narrative. I did consider changing the lengths of the black lines for each day to show the total screen time of the day, but I wanted to keep this attempt simple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s an interesting discussion here around how screen time data is collected and utilised – especially if this is part of Family <\/a>Sharing<\/a> <\/a>and parents can monitor their child’s (or spouse’s!) usage. In terms of data use and privacy, it took some investigating to determine if the screen time data was private. There’s another discussion here around transparency of data collection and use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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