Description
"The Personal Analytics of My Life" (March 2012) by Stephen Wolfram, in which the creator of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha analyzes one of the world's largest collections of personal data — over two decades of meticulously archived digital activity. Using Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha Pro, Wolfram visualizes his complete email archive back to 1989 (a third of a million emails sent), daily meeting schedules, keystrokes (over 100 million logged), file edits, phone call durations, and physical step counts. The visualizations reveal consistent patterns in his work habits — he typically goes to sleep around 3am and gets up around 11am — sleep schedule, and communication frequency. The blog post became a landmark example of personal analytics and the quantified self movement.
