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Alright, it's New Year's Eve and everyone's summarizing what they did in 2013, resolving what other cool stuff to do in 2014, and generally feeling introspective. How could I miss this bandwagon?
After reading a bunch of 2013 summary posts, I started wondering how much numerical information can one find for themselves if they spend an hour or so going back through different accounts here and there. You know, mostly in light of the whole quantified self movement. But also as a reminder of how much information we keep online in various forms.
So, here's what I dug up from (mostly Google-owned) online services for myself in the span of roughly an hour. For the majority of those numbers I have no good frame of reference, and subsequently, no good idea what they mean. But I'm fairly sure their collection can be automated and one can generate cool-looking infographics and then send them to the data owner around this time of the year, when they are feeling introspective (you are welcome for the startup idea, btw).
- 62,676 km / 38,945 mi flown. Some destinations: Vienna, Reykjavik, San Francisco, Phoenix, Austin, Seattle. (gmail search for "Final details for your trip" OR "Itinerary for your upcoming trip" -> grep flight # -> look up at FlightAware -- this should be very easy to automate)
- 15,372 km / 9,552 mi driven. Mostly road trips, hike trips, marathon trips, beach trips, etc. (just summing up longer ones from google maps, I can probably filter my location history properly to get a more accurate number)
- 1,808 km / 1,123 mi ran. This includes 7 marathons in 7 states. A total of 156 h spent running. (straight out of Garmin Connect)
- 42,090 lines of code changed in XIOSim (12,730 added, 29,360 deleted). Probably a much smaller number in side projects, automation scripts, and code I wrote at Google. (git log --numstat --pretty="%H" --author="Svilen" <firstcommit>..HEAD | awk 'NF==3 {plus+=$1; minus+=$2} END {printf("+%d, -%d\n", plus, minus)}')
- 0 first-author conference papers published. Too many versions of the same co-authored paper submitted and rejected. 1 workshop and 1 conference paper. (straight out of Google Scholar)
- 2 workshop, 0 conference talks given.
- 7 photos taken that I'm actually proud of (and that generated some engagement on google+). 0 prints sold through my portfolio.
- 22,352 unique visitors to this blog. 64,156 pageviews. (straight out of analytics)
Any ideas for other easily quantifiable parts of the year / totally meaningless stats?
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