Project #9 Data Portrait / Chambers

Click on the circles to reveal the day. My data portrait illustrates most listened tracks every day in one week. The list goes from the top to the bottom. It shows the name of the tracks and the time I listen to the tracks.

Description

I decided to collect my one-week data on music tracks I most listen to. I started with the iTunes library and I requested my data from Apple. Unfortunately, they sent me the data after 10 days of waiting, so I started to manually put some compositions I listened to by myself. I was trying to note all my songs, but then realized It would be clearer to put the most listened tracks.

Design Process

I manually used google sheets to note my favorite and most played compositions every day. First, I tried to use paper notes and depicted my other daily habits. Because I thought I might visualize them as well. But I wanted to create a music data visualization the most. I used https://jsonlint.com/ to retranslate my notes into a JSON file. Once the file was ready I used it in my p5js sketch. The most tricky part for me was the right path to the specific file, I got a lot of errors before I could access the files right. I very much appreciate our tutorials and I also searched for some more detailed tutorials and they helped me to solve the issues. I wanted to create a visualization of music tracks as well as a feeling of music compositions. That is why I tried to imitate music bits in the sketch even though they are not linked to the audio waveform. I guess I will try to link the actual audio files to the objects to see if the waveform can change the shapes.

Reflection

This assignment helped me to realize how much data we produce every day and that usually we do not think about it. Now I found myself taking notes on many actions I do every day just to see self-statistics and to find some patterns to work in the future. Our data is so valuable and the visualization of it can be in so many different forms.