ashuku – a personal statistics tool
September 16th, 2009Statistics. I love statistics. And graphs. Graphs are cool, too.
It’s funny, actually. I really suck at statistics. I have a hard time understanding probabilities and statistics is probably the one mathematical field I understand the least. But I still love it. I track a lot of data and love reading tables. I have several books full of yearly death statistics, broken down by age, gender, cause, region and so on. Some of the greatest stuff I ever read. Crime statistics are really cool as well.
Anyway, it might come as no surprise to you then that I like correlating personal data. If I do this change in my life, how does it affect me? Is their a correlation between sleep time and happiness? What about nutritional supplements? So I wrote a tool to track and analyze just this. [0]
Enter ashuku. I’m lazy, so let’s just quote the readme:
ashuku is a tool to track a multitude of daily statistics, like mood and
health. Its design goals are simplicity and fast usage.
ashuku can draw graphs [citation needed] and analyze data for correlation.
Data is stored in plain text files in YAML. It’s easy to read for both humans
and machines.ashuku is named after one of the 5 Wisdom Buddhas, 阿閦如来 (ashuku nyorai).
He is immovable and reflects all emotions like a mirror, showing things as they
really are.ashuku is strongly influenced by todo.txt.
Dependencies
============* Python 3 (although the code is probably compatible with Python 2.6)
* PyYAML
Here’s a screenshot. It’s fully customizable, so don’t be afraid of the Japanese UI. It’s in English by default and you can change it however you want. :)
a screenshot
I’ve been using it since 9/12. The data before that is from a different tool and partially incomplete, so there.
You can grab it here: http://github.com/muflax/ashuku
[0] Well, the second one, actually. The first one was a Perl script and… you know what they say about Perl code. It’s all true, unfortunately.