Your data, your insights: creating personal data projects to (re-)own the...
summary
Thirty-six months of WhatsApp logs become a cut‑and‑paste 36 months of WhatsApp infographic and physical advent calendar, 500+ board‑game plays export into a dataset used to train a classification model and ship a Streamlit winner‑predictor that works well enough as a birthday web gift, and a 17‑month child vocabulary spreadsheet (first 1,000 words) shows a clear vocabulary spurt between 50–100 words and verbs appearing about a year later. All analysis uses local data and tools like spaCy and Python.
AI-written summary · about
chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 0:08Why Do We Become Data Scientists
- 0:33How Do We Become Data Scientists
- 2:11Personal Data Projects
- 2:46First Experience with Personal Data Projects
- 7:21Board Game Stats App
- 14:55Vocabulary Spurt
- 18:24Interjections
- 19:23Verb Particles
- 22:21How Do You Deal with Privacy and Consent When Using Personal Data Friends Related for Your Projects in Terms of Data Storage Processing Etc
- 23:23How Did You Collect Your Child's Words
- 25:36Latest Data Collection Project
related talks
40mArchitectures for Exploring Your Personal Data
30mdata sketch|es: a year of exotic data visualizations
43mBehind the Scenes at Gapminder: A Story about Data and Visualizations
24mTalk Data to Me - the art of storytelling
43mData Sketches | A year of exotic data visualizations
51mGoofing Off with Fun (Big) Data
31mdata sketch|es: A Visualization a Month
01h 31mPandas, Data Wrangling & Data Science