Inspired by the Tim Urban blog post entitled "100 Blocks a Day," I created a Messenger bot to poll me every 10 minutes about what I'm doing, and a couple python scripts to visualize my "100 Blocks" at the end of the day. You can read more about it in my blog post.
Follow the tutorial at Quick Start - Messenger Platform, except use the starter code inside the messenger-webhook directory of this repository instead of the provided starter code. In your deploy environment (such as Heroku,) specify the environment variables required by the webhook such as PAGE_ACCESS_TOKEN and VERIFY_TOKEN (the latter of which is a random string.) Finally, you'll have to create a table in DynamoDB that has "activity" as its primary index and "timestamp" as its sort index, and replace DYNAMODB_TABLE_NAME and DYNAMODB_TABLE_REGION with the appropriate values.
Visualization in Python (perhaps in Jupyter) can be run as follows You'll first need to configure your AWS credentials locally. Then, from the visualization directory, run pip install -r requirements.txt, load the data from DynamoDB into a Pandas table, and extract 10-minute blocks from the data:
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
from pytz import timezone
from utils import load_dynamo_table, extract_blocks
from config import DYNAMODB_TABLE_NAME, ACTIVITY_COLORS
# lower bound on wakeup time (that way only get activities after sleep)
this_morning_naive = datetime.now().replace(
hour=9, minute=0, second=0, microsecond=0
)
# convert to an "aware" datetime object (has a sense of timezone)
eastern = timezone('US/Eastern')
this_morning_aware = eastern.localize(this_morning_naive)
start_dt = this_morning_aware
end_dt = this_morning_aware + timedelta(days=1)
df = load_dynamo_table(DYNAMODB_TABLE_NAME,
start_dt=start_dt,
end_dt=end_dt)
blocks = extract_blocks(df)Classic "100 Blocks" visualization:
from hundred_blocks_viz import hundred_blocks_viz
hundred_blocks_viz(blocks, ACTIVITY_COLORS, day=start_dt)Pie chart of your activities visualization:
from pie_chart_viz import pie_chart_viz
pie_chart_viz(blocks, ACTIVITY_COLORS, day=start_dt)Some more example usages can be seen in viz_experiments Jupyter notebook. Not always using the most efficient ways to do things, but I'll get around to cleaning it up.