Idea validation: An app/site to record data and (allow you to) make sense of it.
I record a bunch of different data about me, or things, on a regular basis. I then stick the data into a spreadsheet and make a little line/bar chart. Usually all sets of data are separate. Example data:
- My weight -weekly
- How many cups of coffee per day!
- How am I feeling today? Happy/sad or tired /full of energy etc as 1 -5
- Electricity/gas meter reading
- ...
My idea is that some of this data is that I have an app to easily input this data, which displays as line/bar charts. I can then visually stack these one above the other, or overlay one on another, in order to make some sense of the data. For example, do I drink more coffee when I'm tired or sad? (probably!)
You could do the above, say on another tab, for another few sets of data and make some sense of that.
That's a very basic description. I don't have any visuals or an MVP so I hope you can imagine what I'm getting at. Of course, there are a lot of features that you could think of like importing data, having a timer that will then record the result, automatically evaluating the data in some way.
What do you think?
Bryan
I like the idea because I do keep such data. I use the Apple “health” app to record body measurements and other data. The app is pleasant to the eye but very limited. E.g. it does not allow you to annotate the data with some events on some dates (e.g. the day I started the gym), does not have a slot for another family member, cannot show you a period of more that 1year in the graphs, cannot import/export, does not run on the ipad, and many more missing features. But it is free and preinstalled.
I do not know how much someone would pay for similar functionality.
But I do have a similar idea in my mind, a web platform where you can massively import data, organize them as indicators and have automatic graphs and plots out of them.
It should be a common db for all data, not having them as separate datasets (like it would happen in Rstudio)
Thanks for your reply. Importing data is something I have in mind too but I'm not thinking of massively importing necessarily (whatever that means actually), but maybe the transfer of data from one place to another. Hooking into APIs would be good but there are so many that it would be a big task unless the app was focused on a particular topic, like fitness.
It's the connecting of data that appeals, the making sense of it. And even just recording events perhaps, like personal micro blogging I suppose.
Rstudio?