{"id":9,"date":"2022-10-03T09:51:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T08:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cde22.education.ed.ac.uk\/mmani\/?p=9"},"modified":"2022-10-03T09:51:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T08:51:16","slug":"data-visualization-the-items-on-my-kindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cde22.education.ed.ac.uk\/mmani\/2022\/10\/03\/data-visualization-the-items-on-my-kindle\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Visualization &#8211; The items on my kindle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It took me a long time to figure out what data I might visualize for this exercise. Lots of things came to mind, most of which felt like I needed to be very involved and present in data collection. Given the week I was having, I knew that was going to be hard. I contemplated collecting data on how many glasses of water I drink in a day, but then I realized it wouldn&#8217;t be &#8220;interesting&#8221; enough &#8212; or rather I wouldn&#8217;t have enough data for it to be an interesting visual (though good for me since I have been quite dehydrated!). I think this goes back to the point Craig made about the impression of data being boring, and how that impacts what we might collect or visualize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I decided to create a visual of the items on my kindle from this year. One of the main reasons I chose this was because the data was already there and all I needed was to visualize it. On the other hand, I really did not want to visualize it because I knew what I would find and I did not want to see it (dozens over dozens of samples, and hardly any fully read books). Further, I could find myself doing what Carlos mentioned where I was trying to present a &#8220;good&#8221; picture. I think I could have afforded to mark a few more books as those I will never finish, or get to. I think that is a  combination of wishful thinking and me wanting to appear in a better light, where &#8220;better&#8221; is defined as having the intent to start and finish a book. I also found that I was judging myself with data related to fiction versus non fiction &#8212; where I could see myself desiring to see a better outcome related to non-fiction related reading (I have a PhD student image to keep up with!). All in all, I wasn&#8217;t surprised with what the visual showed, though it is interesting to note all the emotional baggage that comes with this data I have collected. If these were library books I started and returned, I wouldn&#8217;t have this telling set of items I look at everyday to remind me how I&#8217;ve somehow failed to meet some hypothetical ideal. Even though the library book data is also something I could potentially collect and visualize, it isn&#8217;t actively on a device I look at and interact with everyday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"771\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/cde22.education.ed.ac.uk\/mmani\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/10\/PXL_20221003_084122272-771x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cde22.education.ed.ac.uk\/mmani\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/10\/PXL_20221003_084122272-771x1024.jpg 771w, http:\/\/cde22.education.ed.ac.uk\/mmani\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/10\/PXL_20221003_084122272-226x300.jpg 226w, http:\/\/cde22.education.ed.ac.uk\/mmani\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/10\/PXL_20221003_084122272-768x1020.jpg 768w, http:\/\/cde22.education.ed.ac.uk\/mmani\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/10\/PXL_20221003_084122272-1157x1536.jpg 1157w, http:\/\/cde22.education.ed.ac.uk\/mmani\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/10\/PXL_20221003_084122272-1542x2048.jpg 1542w, http:\/\/cde22.education.ed.ac.uk\/mmani\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/10\/PXL_20221003_084122272-scaled.jpg 1928w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took me a long time to figure out what data I might visualize for this exercise. Lots of things came to mind, most of which felt like I needed to be very involved and present in data collection. Given the week I was having, I knew that was going to be hard. 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