The goal of lifeviz is to visualize life events. This has been inspired by the post ‘The Tail End’ by WaitButWhy. I have taken the visualizations and added a few degrees of freedom, so that the users can visualize the past/present. On the activities tab, users can display the remaining activity counts for things they could represent using emojis.
The idea is to produce reflection and general introspection about our time on Earth. Actually visualizing the number of remaining days/burgers/hugs, can be a powerful tool to do so.
Check out the online version of the app here!
The app contains two tabs. One of them will prompt for your date of birth and the number of years lived you are considering on this Earth.
The second tab allows you to plot the number of remaining activities using an emoji selector. You can customize the title of the display. If the number of events/activities is too large, each emoji will represent more than one event/activity. This was done to keep the dimensions of the images manageable.
The example below shows how to use the basic functions.
Check out the online version of the app here!
This app does not store user data beyond the usage session nor it sends information to the creator of the app.
Some of the functionality might be buggy. This is specially true about. Week calculation might be a bit tricky around the end of the year (this app uses a mix of calendar weeks and iso weeks).
The `X years of life in weeks` plot uses the calendar weeks and not the actual date of birth as the beginning. This is a design decision that introduces a small inaccuracy to produce what I believe is a more useful visualization of the weeks in life (we mostly think of years starting at January 1st regardless of our birth date).
If you find a bug or want to contribute, please file issues to improve this app.
Hosting this app online is not for free. If you like what I do, consider sponsoring my work.
This was created by Matias Andina. See LICENSE.md.
