“Playing the Whole Game”: A Data Collection and Analysis Exercise With Google Calendar

Figures & data

Fig. 1 Data science workflow diagram (Wickham and Grolemund 2017).

Fig. 2 The 80–20 rule of data wrangling.

Fig. 3 “Playing the whole game”: data collection as well as data analysis in data science.

Fig. 4 Graphical representation of playing the “playing the whole game” with Google Calendar.

Fig. 5 Poll: Do you keep a calendar/schedule/planner?

Fig. 6 Sample Google Calendar presented to students.

Fig. 7 Time series plot of calendar data.

Fig. 8 Distribution of number of hours spent split by activity type.

Table 1 Example calendar data frame.

Date	Activity	Duration	Hours
2019-09-02	Sleep	480	8.0
2019-09-02	Study	60	1.0
2019-09-03	Exercise	60	1.0
2019-09-04	Sleep	960	16.0
2019-09-04	Study	180	3.0
2019-09-05	Sleep	540	9.0
2019-09-06	Exercise	30	0.5
2019-09-06	Study	90	1.5
2019-09-07	Exercise	30	0.5
2019-09-07	Sleep	540	9.0