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asackofpopcorn t1_iqyki9o wrote

Reply to comment by bliswell in [OC] I tracked my mood on a five point scale every day for a year (October 2021 - September 2022) by sshheelleeyy

The inside ring is 1 and the outside ring is the end of the month

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bliswell t1_iqyo3ge wrote

Yeah, but the end of this month should be next to the beginning of next month. That is how time works. I don't wipe my mood slate clean because I turn the page on my calendar.

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asackofpopcorn t1_iqyscng wrote

Maybe OP can answer this better but the visualization is meant to find similar patterns between the month. You can alternatively use an overlapping curve line graph with different colors for each month but because the values are a range anyway (good to bad) and you can group months together sequentially.

This is a good visual.

You can quickly see that something was up between August and October.

A line graph wouldn’t be able to tell the same data story which is what visuals are for. A line graph might let you know that June had some extremes and that OP has worse moods during the beginning if the month more often.

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AshmacZilla t1_iqzxv64 wrote

Yeah. All calendars should be like this. No breaks. My new wall calendar on sale now is one box high and 365 boxes wide. No pesky breaks in my timeline.

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