Introducing open.jamierubin.net

With all of the data I collect about myself, I’ve been wanting to put together a kind of open dashboard that provides a window into the data through interesting visualizations. While my short term plans are nothing like the amazing things happening over at Aprilzero, I have put a very early prototype together of what I am calling open.jamierubin.net.

Right now, all the site does is make a live query to my Google Doc Writing Tracker spreadsheet, and renders the data in a chart on the site. Clicking on the links above the chart, you can see either the last 30 days of my writing data plotted out, or go back to the beginning of time (over 500 days).

For each visualization I publish, I plan to include a link to the “HOWTO” which will include the code I used and how I pulled the data I needed to make the visualization. That way, if others want to give it a try, there will be at least some documentation.

Eventually, I will come up with a framework for the site, and begin pulling in other data as well. For now, this is a quick-and-dirty prototype of what is possible with just a little bit of code. Take a peek at it and let me know what you think.