Peak time for sports and leisure [OC]

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halhen on July 8th, 2017 at 13:23 UTC »

Source: https://www.kaggle.com/bls/american-time-use-survey

Tools: R, ggplot2, Inkscape

Source code: https://github.com/halhen/viz-pub/blob/master/sports-time-of-day/2_gen_chart.R

Inspired by Joy Division's art work (and therefore sometimes affectionately called joyplots). While exact readings are neither very convenient nor the point, these in my mind give a better feel for the data than for example heatmaps. Any opinions on the matter are welcome.

majungo on July 8th, 2017 at 13:51 UTC »

For what reason do people rollerblade at 3-4AM?

SirPenguinalot on July 8th, 2017 at 14:04 UTC »

This is really interesting!

I'd like to see ice skating and ski/snowboard separated into two categories, since the former is often done indoors whilst the other two rely on the short period of daylight there is in the winter