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20 Post author: jkaufman 03 October 2012 01:43PM

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Comment author: Pablo_Stafforini 23 April 2015 06:08:52AM 2 points [-]

Any updates?

Comment author: jkaufman 27 April 2015 06:24:49PM *  2 points [-]

I eventually got annoyed at the interruptions and stopped, but only about a month ago, 11 months after the baby was born.

http://www.jefftk.com/happiness_graph is up to date with the final samples

I think the rise up to December 2013 was mostly me getting used to the scale I was using.

The baby was born 3/26.

There's no data from periods when I was asleep or trying to sleep, which misses out on the main source of unhappiness: night-time wakings.

The period with no data is data loss from a broken phone -- with TagTime I needed to do manual backups which I didn't get around to very often. This lost data was for a chunk of my paternity leave, sadly.

The low point in late january corresponds to my mother dying; the high point before that corresponds to lots of family being around for the holidays.