Alex Kelleher's Blog » visualization http://blog.alexkelleher.com Psychology, data, future gazing, digital marketing and the internet. Sat, 15 May 2010 22:23:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 An Average Day http://blog.alexkelleher.com/2009/08/10/an-average-day/ http://blog.alexkelleher.com/2009/08/10/an-average-day/#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:01:38 +0000 admin http://blog.alexkelleher.com/?p=335 The New York Times chose to lead this story by pointing out that “the unemployed have more time for leisure and socializing“.   Yes, that seems pretty likely.

But in any case the interactive graph they created from their data is a pretty interesting breakdown of how different groups spend their days, by time of day. 

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It’s full of “obvious” information, like men seem to watch more TV and do less housework, but it’s intriguing to play around with the different groups, they’ve certainly tried to analyze the data.  Here are some facts that I’m sure you wanted to know:

  • Women shop for an average of half an hour a day
  • At midnight, 2% of all Americans (which equates to 6m people) are working
  • At noon, 4% of all Americans (12m) are asleep…
  • 25% of people spend more than an hour travelling to work
  • At 8:50pm, 2 fifths of people are in front of the television

More evidence that we’re a pretty predictable bunch of beings…

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