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Re: Your Life

#11

HTML infographic inspired by Tim Urban's Life Calendar[1]. Made this after seeing his TED talk[2]. [1] http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html [1] https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_urban_inside_the_mind_of_a_mas...

Great talk. I just ordered the poster.

Re: Your Life

#13
post #9

Way too optimistic. Here, all rectangles look similar, but actually, quality of life in bottom rectangles deteriorates rapidly, medical expenses are skyrocketing, and basically everything sucks.

I get the feeling the creator wasn't trying to plot quality of life as data point here...

Re: Your Life

#15
Would it be great if you could select ranges of blocks and assign a color to each range according to how you felt those days, i.e. green: good, yellow: not that good, red: not good.

I did something like this in past, with colors, and contrarily to the expectations it actually cheered me up to see all those green blocks making up a huge chunk of life.

Also, it reminded me of http://moriclock.com

Re: Your Life

#16

I think the website needs a better job explaining what it actually is. What's the point? I just drew a smiley face by clicking random squares.

We always are surprised how quickly a week goes by.

I think the point of the web site is to let people know that there aren't that many weeks in one's life time.

nothing more... nothing less...

Re: Your Life

#17
post #9

Way too optimistic. Here, all rectangles look similar, but actually, quality of life in bottom rectangles deteriorates rapidly, medical expenses are skyrocketing, and basically everything sucks.

Maybe. Or quality of life might mean something different to people as they age.

Re: Your Life

#18

I think the website needs a better job explaining what it actually is. What's the point? I just drew a smiley face by clicking random squares.

You are describing life, what's it? what's the point? It's a good thing you drew a smiley face :)

Re: Your Life

#20

I think the website needs a better job explaining what it actually is. What's the point? I just drew a smiley face by clicking random squares.

> "I just drew a smiley face"

Well done. This is an excellent response to the page and to life.

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