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One year of tracking mouse movement and clicks (iamjonay.com)
35 points by prawn on Oct 13, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 9 comments



Too bad the mouse was recorded when not moving, worse still it left big black circles where useful data might be. Bad decision since you get nothing from the circle, apart from "user is not using the computer" which is useless.

Other data looks pretty random apart from the main blob which is positioned slightly off the center to the left and up.

Cool idea bad execution.


Am I the only one interpreting this as more of an art piece than, I dunno, something that should be put in D3 with a shiny explorer interface so you can find out how many times they drew a smiley face at 3AM? Sheesh.

Neat imagery, and it makes me wonder what mine would look like :) I suspect you could make out where my IDE/browser tabs usually reside.


I have been doing something somehow similar for the past ~6 months by tracking (per minute) the number of keystrokes, distance travelled by my mouse cursor, number of clicks, active app, active wifi network and free disk space. I can't wait to start visualizing these over time.


Can you share the scripts/tools which you are using?


I might open source the app in the future.


It is interesting, although I am unsure of the value of this information.

Something I have started to do is to look at the finger prints on people's touch devices. My wife's has an interesting pattern and it reflects her obsession with Candy Crush.


Looks very cool but it's hard to give any meaning to the data


Different colour for different apps would have been neat.


The video would probably be nicer to watch if each frame used a sliding window into the data; that way the animation could be quite smooth instead.




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