One Photo Every Minute for a Year

ONE PHOTO EVERY MINUTE One Year On

THE GIST

• Taking a photo every minute

• Started on 8/18/2012

• Presentation on QuantifiedSelf.com (“Rob Shields”)

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WHAT’S NEW?

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HOW MANY?

• Over the course of the year, I took 285,724 photos

• A stack of photos more than 7 stories tall

• 781 photos a day

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HOW MANY?

• That’s 196 GB of photos

• Or 536 MB a day

• Not bad, considering that most photos are 1944x2592

• That’s about what I had guessed last year

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IMPROVED SOME THINGS

• Harness upgrade

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IMPROVED SOME THINGS

• Harness upgrade

• Along with a camera change

• Tragic Frisbee-related accident

• This is the last photo the old camera took

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IMPROVED SOME THINGS

• Time between charges

• Now can run for about 2 days (vs. about half day)

• I thought it was the picture taking that drained the battery

• Turned out the drain was trying to talk to the cell network

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IMPROVED SOME THINGS

• Wireless Photo Sync

• No manual transfer from the camera when the computer is on the same Wi-Fi

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SOME THINGS BECAME TEDIOUS

• I started off tagging all the photos every day in Picasa

• Two kinds of tags:

• “People” tags

• “Context” tags

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SOME THINGS BECAME TEDIOUS

• I started off tagging all the photos every day

• Not any more

• Takes 10+ minutes a day

• …but I’d like to get back to it

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SOME THINGS BECAME TEDIOUS

• Actually looking at the photos

• ?!?

• Isn’t that the point?

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LIFE REWIND

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• Working on a project to play back any day

• Photos, GPS, tags

• Early, early stages

SOME THINGS HAVEN’T HAPPENED

• I don’t really use it for searching my life

• …yet

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SOME THINGS HAVEN’T HAPPENED

• I don’t really use it for searching my life

• …yet

• It’s too cumbersome

• Physically

• Interface

• Getting the data in the first place

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STARTING TO EXPLORE THE DATA

• Getting metadata into MySQL

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FACES

• More than 1,000 identifiable people

• 266 in June, 2013

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PEOPLE SEEN IN JUNE

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PEOPLE SEEN IN JUNE

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Starlight Run Grand Floral

Parade

Road Trip

Wife’s

Birthday

Party

Daughter’s

Birthday

Party

GAME OF THRONES

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GAME OF THRONES SCREEN TIME

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6/3/2013 6/10/2013

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GAME OF THRONES SCREEN TIME

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Daenerys Targaryen

Cersei Baratheon

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Catelyn Stark

Tyrion Lannister

Bran Stark

Barristan Selmy

Arya Stark

Jon Snow

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GILMORE GIRLS

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Rory

Lorelai

Dean

Lane

Emily

ParisSookie

Luke

KirkMichel

Jackson

CONTEXTUAL TAGS

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WHAT I DID - JUNE

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WHAT I DID - JUNE

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TV: The Voice

TV: Nova

TV: Mythbusters

TV

Roadtrip: Mt. Rushmore

Starbucks

Koji

Applebees

Hampton Inn

Home

Friends’ House

Driving

Bathroom

HOW MUCH I DID IT

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HOW MUCH I DID IT

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Roadtrip

Work

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QS Meetup

Driving

HOW OFTEN I DID IT

5.08%

7.83%

10.61%

19.41%

21.30%

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DRIVING

TV

WORK

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HOW OFTEN I DID IT

0.04%

0.05%

0.54%

0.56%

0.68%

5.08%

7.83%

10.61%

19.41%

21.30%

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BATHROOM

RESTARAUNT: BASKIN AND ROBINS

QUANTIFIED SELF CO-OP

HIKING

POKER

DRIVING

TV

WORK

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HOME

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THANKS!

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