Fun ways to visualise date/time data

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jarofgreen
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Fun ways to visualise date/time data

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I'm putting together a list of time/date stamps of a person's activity. I'm looking for fun ways to visualise them so it's easy to pick patterns and interesting exceptions out.

I've already graphed them by hour, day and hour vs day in a grid. I'll stick by month and week in to :-) For raw data, you can export them in a iCal feed so you can import them into calendar software.

Can you think of any other neat visualizations? Thanks.
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Re: Fun ways to visualise date/time data

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Maybe a heat map of sorts. Uniform sized bars, but the higher the activity, the closer to red the bar is.
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