One Week of NYC

I’ve recorded what I did in a week during my first semester at NYU. I’ve gathered various activities around 5 main category.

• Survival: Sleep, Eat, Commute,
• Academical: Lecture, Homework, Project
• Self Development: Individual projects, Sports, learning
• Social: Time spent with friends, skype talks
• Fun: Surfing, NFL, Shopping

I’ve used Python to pre-process the text data I had and save it as json file.

I've used the Andreas Dewes's Hierarchical Pie Chart for visualization.

Click slices to zoom-in, click center to zoom-out

Here is an excerpt from the raw file I’ve logged through the week

day 1 tuesday
wake 8.2
bfast 8.2 9
hwA 9 9.2
comm 9.2 9.3
web 9.3 10
hwM 10 12
...
comm 19.4 20.1
dinner 20.2 21
web 21 22
proj 22 22.2
hwM 22.2 23.3
web 23.3 24
sleep 24.1

I defined the hierarchy of activites and their descriptions with another text file.

-,survival,Survival Activities
bfast,Breakfast
sleep,Sleeping
lunch,Lunch
comm,Commute
dinner,Dinner
-,social,Social Activites
skypeFa,Skype with Family
friends,Meeting with Friends
skypeF,Skype with Friends
skypeJ,Skype with Julia'
...

I’ve wrote a python script to pre-process the raw text data to a json file according to the hiearchy above. Final json file looks like the following.

["One Week of NYC", 
9630, 
{"fun": ["Fun Activities", 
    610, 
    {"shop": ["Shopping", 
        60,
        {}],
    "web": ["Web Surfing", 
        380, 
        {}],
     "nfl": ["Watching NFL", 
        170, 
        {}] 
    }], 
"academic": ["Academical Activities", 
...