Please fill out the survey below. No one will be able to see your responses but me. This is to gauge where we should focus our time in class over the next couple of weeks.

What I chose to write about for my data collection project is how much time I spend on my phone daily for the past week. I am usually on my phone all the time but I never really noticed how many hours I spend on my phone daily. For the past week I have been collecting data from the screen time app on my phone and seeing what applications I use most of my time using. I use my phone wherever I go, whether it’s to school, or before and after practice baseball practice, when I’m home and even when I’m out with my friends. When I find something interesting I pretty much spend a couple hours just watching and searching for that kind of stuff on youtube, instagram or on Google. I guess you can say my phone takes up a lot of my free time.

Looking back at the data I collected, I figured out that I spend more time than I thought on my phone. For last week’s average screen time I spent 6 hours and 40 minutes on my phone but my total screen time for that whole week was 46 hours and 40 minutes. I spent 16 hours and 46 minutes of that time on Social networking ( 9h 33m snapchat, 7h 52m instagram), 8 hours and 53 minutes on Entertainment ( Youtube and Netflix ), and lastly the rest of that time was used on creativity apps 6 hours and 23 minutes. Another thing that I found out was most of my screen time is from when I get home from school because that is when I choose to procrastinate my homework and just talk to my friends and watch movies, shows and videos since I don’t feel like doing my homework. I thought this was very Interesting because I guess I never really notice the amount of time I spend on my phone and using social media.

If I showed my data to someone without them knowing anything about me I think that they would make the assumption that I’m on my phone literally all the time and that I can be a person that is probably bored for most of the day from just viewing my daily and weekly average. An educated guess that could be made based on this data is that people would think that I’m glued to my phone. I can see how that guess could be accurate. If I saw the same numbers on someone elses phone I would think that all they do all day is use their phone.

After analyzing all that data I have realized that I should not spend as much time on my phone as I do. I would probably save the battery a lot more for when I need it instead for my phone dying on me. Instead of being on my phone so much I could focus more on sports and school work.

In my mini project I planned to collect the amount of times I nap. I chose this specifically because as a commuter and being awake for long periods of time I believe that napping is a healthy way to gain energy throughout the day instead of chugging coffee every hour or so. With many opportunities to nap as well, in the cab, bus, or train, any chance I get to sit down and rest I am seemingly enough falling asleep each time. As some may believe that napping is a characteristic for lazy people and “Bums” as my mom claims, I on the other hand believe napping can really relieve stress and gives you a nice “pause” in your day. I decided to count the amount of times I nap and how I feel afterwards, I decided to write the time I wake up from my morning and when i took my first nap.

For 7 days I woke up and wrote the time I woke up and went along my day, when I felt tired I wrote down where I was (to show that anywhere you are to take advantage of resting and to take any chance you get to relax and close your eyes for a few.) and how i long slept. Afterwards, i analyzed how i felt after my nap. That even a 10 minute subway ride can really amp me up for the day.

Me personally, I nap about 2-3x a day. sounds like a lot but I am awake from 4am to approx 12:30am. So i barely get a good nights sleep. From being at school during the day and my 2 hour commute there and back takes from my day, I also go home to do some Homework and go to work for an 8 hour shift everyday. This results to me being very tired and overwhelmed time to time. A big belief of mine is self-care is not selfish, a healthy mind is very important and personally helps me throughout the day.

Overall, my data shows that I nap often but tend to feel really good everyday. I get the proper amount of sleep so I am energized and ready for the day. I also concluded that I can sleep anywhere and everywhere, and that it doesnt matter to me. As long as I am in a resting position.

Monday.

Wake Up Time: 4:32am

First nap time: 5:45-7:00am

Location: LIRR

Mood: Awake

Second nap time: 7:15am-7:28am

Location: The 1

Mood: Energized

Third nap time: 12:58-1:49pm

Location: LIRR

Mood: Happy/relieved

Tuesday.

Wake Up Time: 7:00am

First nap time: 10:30-11am

Location: JJ’s Cafe

Mood: Happy

Second nap time: 11:58-12:10pm

Location: LIRR

Mood: A little delirious

Wednesday.

Wake up time: 4:00am

First nap time: 7:30-8:00am

Location: John Jay lobby

Mood: Relieved

Thursday. (I was sick)

Wake up time: 12:00pm

First nap time: 1-8pm

Mood: Felt better

Friday.

Wake up time: 9am

First nap time: 3-4pm

Location: My car

Mood: Relaxed

Second nap time: 8-10:30pm

Location: Friends living room

Mood: energized

I took down the times I ate every day and how I felt during that day. I wanted to get this information and analyze how the way I eat during the day, affects my mood. Before taking down this data, I already know that the way I eat is like a roller coaster. Some days I have a very big appetite or I actually have the time to have a meal. Other times, I don’t really get a chance to get a meal and eat it or I’m not really feeling like eating.

I decided to record data about my eating schedule and how it affects my mood during the day. I chose this information to record and analyze because I was curious on if food plays a role on how I feel every day. People typically just record how they’re feeling but sometimes they won’t record a specific variable for why they feel how they feel.

I basically tracked what meals I ate for the day and what times I ate. Then, I analyzed how I felt for the day. Before tracking any data, I already knew that my eating schedule is like a roller coaster. It depends on if I actually have time to sit and have a meal or if I have an appetite. Most times, I don’t get time to have the proper amount of meals which is 2-3 meals a day. When you eat three meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner) a day, you are most likely to function and perform better.

As a result, I came to the conclusion that when I eat 2+ meals a day, especially breakfast, I feel my best or better than when I eat one meal a day. When I eat 2 meals a day I feel more energetic and I am able to focus on my tasks. I realized that how I eat not only affects my mood but it plays a role on how I perform during the day at school and work. Recording and analyzing this data helped me understand that if I want to focus better, I should start eating 2-3 meals a day even if it means being late to where ever I have to go.

Adriana’s Data Collection: What my steps mean

In this Mini Data Collecting project I decided to track the amount of steps I take on a daily basis. The reason I decided to track my steps is because I recently started to become more active, since now staying home and doing nothing is not as exciting and fun as it used to be. At times I felt trapped as if i were a caged animal. But also everyone around me has been telling me I look different, and by different I mean slimmer. Weight has always been an issue in my life but I didn’t really care/pay much attention to it, but now I can see the difference.

On average I take about 8,000 or more steps, this includes the commute to school, walking to different classes, my daily exercise and just other miscellaneous steps. I found that pretty shocking since I always felt as if I barely did any walking since I always try to find an alternative to walking. For example, my job is a 20 minute walk from my house, but 10 minutes by bus, I choose the latter. Since I know myself, I am a lazy person at heart, especially on the weekends so I try my best to just take it easy.

However if a random person were to casually look at my data, I feel as if they’ll say that it’s more towards the weekend that I start to become more active and take more steps. They may even say that the reason i may be so active is because im either at work or just going out a lot. My assumptions would be that over the weekend is when everything happens so naturally i’ll be more active and in the starting of the week im nit as active because im trying to get back into routine and no one really likes the beginning of the week to start off.

Some good educated guesses would be that in the beginning of the week she doesn’t like to do much, she goes out a lot on weekends, and friday’s are the days where she does a lot of stuff. In addition to this it’d be that Tuesdays are the lazy days sort of. The reason as to why these educated guesses can be made is that if you see in the chart below the amount of steps increase once the weekend starts to come and then decreases once the weekend is over starting the cycle all over again. Which isn’t unusual since everyone tries to go out and have some fun and decompress after a long week of school and work. The reason as to why i mentioned tuesday being the lazy day is because of how low my step count was on tuesdays 

In the end this project helped me to realize that although it may not seem like much i am constantly active and moving unlike how i was in highschool, since i know in highschool i was much laxier, but also if I continue at this rate I think it may help produce a better lifestyle for me in the future.

Steps per Day