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This month I've started journaling every day. I'm looking forward to doing some analysis on the journal once I have enough data. I'm intending to do sentiment a
by ALittleLight 5y ago
This month I've started journaling every day. I'm looking forward to doing some analysis on the journal once I have enough data. I'm intending to do sentiment analysis to plot my mood over time and try to correlate that to words written and daily goals accomplished.
One thing I didn't really get from Wolfram's analysis is how this data drives decisions. It's neat to look at, I read the section on email and skimmed the rest, but I don't see how consequential it is. I hope to use my analysis to decide whether journaling is improving my mood and whether I should focus more or less on goals. In November I'm also going to start marking approximate exercise time and grade myself 1-5 on diet. If sentiment analysis plots work, that can help me dial in exercise and eating habits. That's the idea any way.
I'm tempted to wear a fitness tracker, that would give more data and could automate data collection for steps, exercise, and sleep - but I find the wrist trackers uncomfortable to wear.
- mdeck_ 5y agoPlanning to do sentiment analysis in the future on your own writing that you’re also planning to do in the future seems like using a cannon to kill a mosquito—way overA-powered and unlikely to yield nuanced results anyhow. Why not just add to your journal entries a few quantitative (incl. multiple choice) measures of how you felt each day? Then there’s need to deduce anything about how you probably felt—it’s right there in black and white, and with much more nuance. The rest of your self-tracking sounds like a fun project.