Translation & Transmission

Tracking Activity: -Mood Tracking

For this activity I decided to track my mood for a week. I decided to use flowers to act as the different type of mood I'm in. The reason for using flowers is because flowers can be sort of like a symbol for moods and emotions. So it's sort of like how certain flowers have certain meanings

to it. 

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What went well?

For the whole week that I needed to record down my mood, what I thought went well was actually how I managed to remember to track and jot down my mood no matter how I'm feeling. I thought that that's what went well cause at first I was actually worried I'll totally forget about this after a day or two cause I'm starting to get real forgetful now that we've been stuck at home. Well actually, there are certain times I do forget to write down my mood but it was only 1 or 2 times and I actually remember what my mood was at that time haha.

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What did not go so well?

The one thing that did not go so well is that I felt that​ almost 50% of the day I'm not even awake yet, and with that, it means I couldn't get more data as all I have left is like half the day worth of mood tracking... Well I guess I have to work harder on fixing this habit of sleeping for that long..

On another note, I also did not expect the making of this data tracking to be complicated. Before making the final thing I always see it and thought that it was easy but apparently it requires you to put more effort in it. 

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Another thing that did not go well was the colors. When I wanted to count the number of each color, I realized there were a few colors that looked too similar to each other, making it hard to tell apart. So that took me a while to figure out.. In this activity, I used colored pencils so if ever I were to use colors to color code data, I would rather use colored pens, markers or highlighters as those materials would most likely give a more clear color, and also easy to work with too. 

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How to read the data?

I tried to make it simple for this activity so that I won't confuse anyone and myself.. Anyways, I decided to make this sort of graph to track my mood. Before making this, I remembered I wanted to use flowers as some sort of symbol so for the marking/data in the graph and so I did. 

 

The colors of each flowers represents the mood I had on that time and day. To know what mood the colors represent, I put the "Legend" at the bottom left of the graph to showcase the meaning of each flower colors. The red numbers beside shows the amount of times I felt that mood during that week.

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The y-axis (left) of the graph tells the day and date (starting from Tuesday, ending on Monday), while the x-axis (bottom) of the graph tells the time using the 24 hour clock/system. Below that shows "A.M." and "P.M." just so that I don't get confused myself.. Cause I'm not used to the 24 hour system but wanted to try it out anyways:))