lifemetric

Optimizations

by Kevin 0 comments

With the help of the awesome New Relic RPM app, we were able to squeeze some more performance out of several areas of the site. I’m sure we’ll find some more hotspots and take care of them as soon as we can.

How Metrics Affect Each Other

by Kevin 5 comments

I’m excited to announce a brand new feature on lifemetric: relationships. Relationships are the calculated similarities from one metric to another. They are found on the right sidebar of your home page and user pages:

Let me take a moment to explain these results:

• My mood is directly proportional to the amount of sleep I get
• My mood is inversely proportional to the stress in my life
• My stress is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I get

Generally the results can be interpreted as such:

We’re working on making these results a little bit easier to interpret at a glance, but the inital results have been quite intriguing.

(For the statistically-inclined, these are Pearson product-moment correlation coefficients, calculated from each pairs of metrics you are subscribed to and update on a regular basis.)

Improved Graphs

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How do you stack up against the world? Against your self? A couple new graph features might be able to show you a little better:

You can now see further into your past, up to one full year. In addition you can flip on your averages for the period you are viewing and the world’s averages.

To access these new graphs, click the graph on your home page.

Stress Metric

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The stress metric’s high and low endpoints have been switched. 0 now represents less stress while 10 represents high stress.

All previous entries have been switched accordingly.

Days of the Week

by Kevin 1 comment

Grouping our data by weekday provides some interesting results:

What do I take away from these results? The differences are subtle, but I certainly can tell that members tend to be happier on Fridays, which is not much of a shock given the history and normally relaxed attitude of the day. I also found it interesting that Wednesday was the low point of the week for the majority of members, not Monday as I would’ve thought.

Password Reset/Change

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lifemetric users that have forgotten their passwords can now request a new one be e-mailed to them, via the Reset Password page. If you have forgotten your password, enter your e-mail address and click Reset Password. A message will be sent to your e-mail address within moments with a new password that you can use to log back into lifemetric.

After you’ve logged in, you can change your password to something you prefer by clicking Profile.

Oh, and welcome back!

Server Move

by Kevin 0 comments

To prepare for our rapid growth, we’ve scaled up to two dedicated servers for lifemetric. It shouldn’t be a problem for anyone, just all the benefits of a speed increase.

Those with lagging DNS will still hit the old server, which will be turned off in a few days after the straggling DNS have caught up.

More Major Changes

by Kevin 0 comments

We’re made even more changes to lifemetric. The result of which you are currently using. We’ve got:

• Dramatically improved graphs, which are now images rather than Flash, and in the old style
• New user pages, with some more data like “points”
• Top Users leaderboard, by aforementioned points
• New sliders and visual tweaks to the Your Metrics page
• Latest Entries API, which will drive some of the widgets and badges we have in the works
• Random performance improvements

Details about these changes will be coming soon, I hope to dedicate a whole post to each of them. Just a one line description doesn’t do enough justice to the radical progress we’re making as we grow.

Avatars

by Kevin 0 comments

lifemetric is now displaying avatars from Gravatar. For example, check out the Mood page (you may have to refresh a few times to see someone with an avatar…)

If you don’t already have one set up, why don’t you go ahead and do so?. A lot of other sites display them as well and its completely free.

Data Updates

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In the interest of keeping the lifemetric community up to date with all the ways we’re helping you get access to your data, we’ve started a mini-API doc at http://lifemetric.com/data. This is a rapidly evolving document that will be updated when new formats and data are available.

We’ve also added another data feed: a CSV dump of all your entries, accessible at http://lifemetric.com/user/entries.csv. You can read more about how that works in the new API documentation.

Please report any issues or suggestions to our new feature tracker for consideration.