Right before I drifted off to sleep at about 230am last night, I was thinking about what a weird month it's been for me. I also remember Terrence saying that this month was a bad month for many people (from their away messages). In any case, it dawned on me that I have access to tons of metadata from thousands of users from that nifty little "mood" option when you post an entry. What if I grabbed all that data and generated a textual-graphical representation of how the Tabulas ecosystem felt?

I grudgingly forced myself awake and about 30 minutes later, I had my first batch of data ... about 45 minutes later I had something that I felt satisfied with and then I fell asleep.

How does the Tabulas community feel as a group?

If a word is bigger, that means it's a more prevalent mood for that given month.

There isn't huge variance (it seems the Tabulas community is always tired, which makes sense, as tiredness isn't subject to mood swings), but there are some small things that seem interesting: people really do seem to feel cheerful during the holiday months and depressed during January.

Oh well, it's all plainly obvious stuff, but it's still fun.

So if you have the time, set your mood setting with your entries. Hopefully I can start gathering more data from here on out.

. . .

Oh yes ... please do me a favor and go to your public profile page and fill in as many fields as possible :). Esp the birthday field (you can leave the year blank if you feel uncomfortable) ... I really like to know when the people on my friends list are gonna have their bdays.

Currently feeling: off
Posted by roy on February 2, 2005 at 02:10 PM in Tabulas | 13 Comments

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Comment posted on February 3rd, 2005 at 12:38 PM
Well, since I'm not on your friends list, you'll never know when my birthday is. :)
Comment posted on February 3rd, 2005 at 10:26 AM
Hey Roy, what's Myer-Briggs?
Comment posted on February 3rd, 2005 at 10:14 PM
Just a classification of your personality type.
Comment posted on February 2nd, 2005 at 07:19 PM
now that's HOT.
Comment posted on February 2nd, 2005 at 03:10 PM
It's so nice!! *-*
I'll start using the pre-made moods now to help the moods page ^^'

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Comment posted on February 2nd, 2005 at 02:49 PM
they're always sleepy too.
Comment posted on February 2nd, 2005 at 02:17 PM
That's such an innovative way of presenting it--totally obvious compared to a graph or something like that.
Comment posted on February 2nd, 2005 at 02:19 PM
It's stolen from Flickr. :)
Comment posted on February 2nd, 2005 at 02:33 PM
Whom, I believe, stole it from del.icou.us.

Cool idea, though. Very fun to look at.
Comment posted on February 2nd, 2005 at 02:56 PM
We all steal from one another... SO FUNNNNN
Comment posted on February 2nd, 2005 at 03:11 PM
not delicious, rather http://kevan.org/extispicious.cgi
Comment posted on February 2nd, 2005 at 03:12 PM
it's awesome btw roy.