Unlike many other fields data-science projects should start with focused questions. A table of data is not of much use in itself unless we analyse and understand it with a specific goal in mind. Without a predefined goal we would not know where to start – what to look for in the data, how to analyze it, what extraneous elements should be removed etc.
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Yearly medicine dosage visualization
For the past several years I’ve regularly consumed Pantoprazole – a proton pump inhibitor (PPI) – to control my acid reflux. However, as it is well know, regular PPI use causes various health problems. I’ll not enumerate those here, but trust me when I say that they are numerous. Last year I decided to wean myself off PPIs slowly, by only limiting to a 20mg dose on any single day, and alternating or dropping some days completely. I recorded my dosage information in Google calendar on my mobile, so that I could process it later. Now that I’ve a more than a year’s data with me I thought of visualizing it to get an understanding of my dosage habits.
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