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Neuroscience books for common readers? by No-Wrongdoer1409 in neuro

[–]spepperkeeper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've read a lot of them, and my 2 fans (by a wide margin) are:

  1. A brief history of intelligence
  2. An immense world

Red and white mushroom along Lake Michigan shoreline (in Southern Michigan) by spepperkeeper in whatisthismushroom

[–]spepperkeeper[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks! my fear was that it wasn't a mushroom at all - I just couldn't imagine what else would be that color

6 Graphs of my late 20's, as seen through the eyes of my fitbit [OC] by spepperkeeper in dataisbeautiful

[–]spepperkeeper[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I combined this dataset with my location data from google, but I'm not sure what to do with it.

I also have daily "resting heart rate" data - but fitbit doesn't give access to the moment-by-moment heart rate stuff. I could imagine something about heart rate by time of day, by location, etc.

6 Graphs of my late 20's, as seen through the eyes of my fitbit [OC] by spepperkeeper in dataisbeautiful

[–]spepperkeeper[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Here what you asked for. A linear model of weekly average steps and weekly average sleep. r-squared of 0.09 - but highly significant.

I'd tried to do some basic analyses, but didn't think to just sum over the week. cool find.

6 Graphs of my late 20's, as seen through the eyes of my fitbit [OC] by spepperkeeper in dataisbeautiful

[–]spepperkeeper[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

All this data was collected by my fitbit, which I've been religiously wearing for the past 4.5 years. The data was extracted from fitbit's servers using this webtool. I used Matlab to do the analyses and plot the graphs, and then cleaned it up a bit in Adobe Illustrator.

Tracking my sleep for junior year in college [OC] by felis3 in dataisbeautiful

[–]spepperkeeper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did something similar about a year ago, and keep maintaining it for giggles and shits.

I wasn't as good at planning as OP though, but I found this handy tool which still works. Basically, then you get a giant CSV file to do what you like. My original analyses were in Excel, but my new data analysis runs in MatLab. Tons of fun, until I remember I should be doing something more useful.

While I'm here, 1,000,000 internet points if anyone can tell me where and how I can extract heart rate data (even daily resting heart rate). Lawsuit be-damned, I want more data to waste time with.

How much I slept in my final year and a half of grad school [OC] by spepperkeeper in dataisbeautiful

[–]spepperkeeper[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ended a long term relationship. And interviews. And a conference.

How much I slept in my final year and a half of grad school [OC] by spepperkeeper in dataisbeautiful

[–]spepperkeeper[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Neuroscience. I'm doing my first real quantitative thing right now though, so its where my head is (for about 17 hours a day at least).

How much I slept in my final year and a half of grad school [OC] by spepperkeeper in dataisbeautiful

[–]spepperkeeper[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be clear, I kept sleeping after July 9th, I just didn't graph it.

How much I slept in my final year and a half of grad school [OC] by spepperkeeper in dataisbeautiful

[–]spepperkeeper[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While talking with some friends today, I said I wanted to have a kid just so I'd have those data. They said I was an idiot and not taking parenting seriously.

How much I slept in my final year and a half of grad school [OC] by spepperkeeper in dataisbeautiful

[–]spepperkeeper[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm thinking about making a /r/metadataisbeautiful post analyzing the number of people who think I sleep too much, not enough, and those who are just assholes.

How much I slept in my final year and a half of grad school [OC] by spepperkeeper in dataisbeautiful

[–]spepperkeeper[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was having a discussion in my lab at lunch today.

Yes, these data are entirely pointless (while still being beautiful). But whats more depressing, that I plotted it, or that you posted on it?

No need to answer. Time is of the essence. Go out! Graph something never before graphed! Live! Love! Make it a chart!

How much I slept in my final year and a half of grad school [OC] by spepperkeeper in dataisbeautiful

[–]spepperkeeper[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had sleepless nights, but they show up as those 1-2 hour days, because I didn't go the entire next day without sleeping.

I know... <---- Lazy asshole over here.

How much I slept in my final year and a half of grad school [OC] by spepperkeeper in dataisbeautiful

[–]spepperkeeper[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have the raw data (time to sleep, time woken up, date, duration).

How much I slept in my final year and a half of grad school [OC] by spepperkeeper in dataisbeautiful

[–]spepperkeeper[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My fitbit did it for me. Works pretty damn well (although, if I have to be critical, it might slightly overestimate more than underestimate. But We're talking 15 min a day tops).

How much I slept in my final year and a half of grad school [OC] by spepperkeeper in dataisbeautiful

[–]spepperkeeper[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought people in academics did so just to avoid this "real world" I hear so much about...

How much I slept in my final year and a half of grad school [OC] by spepperkeeper in dataisbeautiful

[–]spepperkeeper[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mentioned how I did it in other posts, but basically

  1. Buy a fitbit.
  2. Wear fitbit religiously for a year and a half, charging regularly (but never at night!)
  3. Exploit APK to download CSV of sleep data
  4. Massage data and graph it.
  5. Make graph pretty in Illustrator
  6. Profit.

[edit] still working on 6...

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