Show HN: Spotify and Apple Health data as art

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47 points · pcybr · 16 days ago

For the longest time, I've been interested in the idea that the personal data we have logged across platforms can "paint" a pretty clear picture of who we are. And, as individuals, this will reveal fun and maybe sharable stories about us.

So I made this app, Day by Data, to connect with and visualize your personal data like step count, music listening habits, and more into tiny visualizations and data art right on your iPhone.

The launch version has a few year-in-steps breakdowns and a few Spotify data-visualizations.

Over time, the goal is to make more data sources available to connect and empower users to learn from their personal data stored across these platforms. Think data about the food we eat, places we travel, or shows we watch.

Data accessibility and cleanliness is the hardest part, but I'm always open to different sources and visualization types.

Let me know what you think and if there are certain data sets you'd like to see visualized!


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riwsky · 16 days ago

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larusso · 16 days ago
I tried it and it’s funny. I liked the Highscore output. But the distance is only measured in miles. As a metric person this saddens me :). Keep up the work. I also like these kinds of visualizations.

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OmarShehata · 16 days ago
Very cool! I've been playing around with exporting my twitter archive & visualizing it/finding semantic clusters/changes in my beliefs over time etc. There's a couple initiatives of people making their personal data publicly accessible/building tools on top of it:

[1] https://www.community-archive.org/ [2] https://www.openhumans.org/

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eimann · 16 days ago
Thanks. That looks amazing. I wish there was an app which can use last.fm data, as it can collect listening data from various sources. Btw. your privacy policy is missing an E-Mail address: Email: [Your Contact Email] There should also be a space between "December" and 2024 in the top of the page. Also the linked Instagram account doesn't seem to work.

The app and visualizations are great. Keep up the good work. Do you have a Mastodon/Fediverse account to follow your progress on the development?

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mcintyre1994 · 16 days ago
Nice! I don't use Spotify but the Apple Health ones are really cool :)

FYI it doesn't seem to work on macOS, it lets you install it from the Mac App Store and step through the onboarding but it seems like it doesn't have the Health data API you're using. It doesn't request access to anything and just carries on, then "get started" doesn't do anything.

On iOS it works great though! One small thing I noticed is that after the onboarding it was showing the health visualisations as still requiring me to connect. After a few taps it updated and worked though.

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