Hey, sharing my monthly tracking report – figured this sub would appreciate the visuals 🙂
I'm not a fan of tracking things manually so this is mostly done via automatically collected data.
Each Report-Summary covers one calendar month, via Apple Watch (HRV, resting HR, sleep stages, steps, active energy, walking HR) plus daily manual logging of sick/not-sick as a binary. I'm adding alcohol consumption in the future and hope to see some correlation with my vitals.
The Stress chart is a derived metric – deviation from my personal 21-day rolling baseline on HR and HRV, not a population-normed wellness score, which I find mostly useless at the individual level. Core hypothesis I'm testing is that personal-baseline deviation is more informative than any normalised score, especially once you have a few months of data.
by InfamousBuddy7293
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Data Source: myself (via Apple Watch; common biomarkers like: HRV, HR, Steps, Sleep Stages, etc).
Tool used: [Sam Health](https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6741229335?pt=127594711&ct=Reddit-dataisbeautiful&mt=8)
Gave it one star in the App Store for spamming this sub.Â
I’m sorry, but it’s ugly data:
– Is stress avg? Why so high spikes during the night?
– What does it mean my sleep quality is like 5% at 8 p.m.? 100% quality every time at 4 a.m. seems improbable, why does it get lower when waking up?
– What are the status dots? I guess it’s the Apple vitals, but why do the dots move around? Is it monthly view? That’s not clear. If it is healthy days vs non healthy days, that’s basically a useless graph. What does it mean to be sick.
– In physical activity, why is 1 at like the 4th item? I thought it’d be monthly view but it clearly can’t be if the first item’s x is -3.
– Page 8 out of 7??? That should not be part of the report then.
– Is steps really the metric for “physical activity”? What if i go to the gym, no steps there
Visual nitpicks
– Titles are too large, they take like 1/6 of the available space of the card
– Way too many different font sizes and weights
– Why’s there a huge break between “for” and “-April”
Also, the … after longer titles is ugly, come up with a better name for Health S… or whatever it is so it doesn’t.