Visualizing Sleep Data

[stubble]

Hi,

I've been using IFTTT to save my sleep logs to a spreadsheet and now have 18 months of data accumulated. I'm trying to create meaningful graphs from the data but am a bit stuck.

Has anyone done anything like this and, if so, can you give me a push in the right direction please?

TIA

[WavyDavey]

Hi @stubble,

When you say "meaningful graphs", what does that mean to you? What trends are you trying to discover? What metrics are you interesting in measuring? Your answers should point you in the right direction.

[stubble]

Looking to understand my shorter sleep episodes to see what my typical core sleep length is, for starters at least

[emili]

meaning which days you sleep better or worse? and tying it to the day to see if anything about the day tells you why you are sleeping more restful or not as long? I am trying to figure out the reason for doing it when the app holds data for you so you can look over the week.. are you doing some kind of sleep study over long periods of time?

[stubble]

I've noticed over time that my sleep quality is getting worse and my sleep
is broken into a number of different sized chunks each night. (4 am for me
at the moment and I'm wide awake!)

I'm trying to get a sense of the average length of these shorter sleep
sessions so I can set reasonable expectations for my sleep rather than just
get into bed hoping for a full 8 hours then failing dismally.

I think this pattern would show up better with the full data set in play
rather than just a single week.

[WavyDavey]

@stubble,

That sounds like a worthy endeavor. So if I understand, you have a bunch of data in CSV, and want to create graphs from it?