Topics of personal data visualization

[tanykim]

Quantified self is big now. But a lot of data from individuals are mostly about health data from sensing devices including mobile phone.

• What would be interesting topics for personal data visualization other than the health/fitness/wellness area?
• How can we design visualization that helps people understand themselves better than mere numbers?

I can talk about my recent project - visualization of personal beer taste and drinking behavior: that you can see here: http://beer.tany.kim/#/_sample1

[jm3]

+1 sounds interesting

[enjalot]

+1 I'm also interested in visualizing my financial data from something like mint or credit card transactions. A little harder to share the data for that though.

[jsundram]

+1 I've actually still been in search of a daily-checkin health data vis.