An easily adaptable data viz inspired by the Memento Mori moto to put things in perspective and enjoy every moment in life.
Each square represents a week of your life. Full ones are past weeks while empty ones are furture weeks. Not to end up with bad feelings, I added an option to also show events that are important in your life like happy encounters, great jobs or memorable travels.
Create a data file for each person with the birth and presumed death and add some events. For the period of the events, you have three options :
- have multiple begin and end dates (eg. if you go often in a foreign country),
- use the same begin and end date (eg. to mark the date you met someone),
- use the end date as "now" (eg. for an ongoing job).