✚ Finding the Point

Nathan Yau here. This is the 219th issue of The Process, the newsletter where we look closer at how the charts get made. I come to you the week before Christmas, with the new year soon after and attention spans at their annual low, thinking about the purpose behind what we do. What is the point of visualizing data?

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Where We Find Meaning in the Everyday

The American Time Use Survey asks people to log their activities for a day, and in the most recent release, people also rated the meaningfulness of the activities. Here’s how activity categories rated, sorted by most meaningful to least meaningful.

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Reanalysis: No health benefits found for pursuing meaning in life versus pleasure

NOTE: After I wrote this blog post, I received via PNAS the reply from Steve Cole and Barbara Fredrickson to our article.  I did not have time to thoroughly digest it, but will address it in a future blog post.

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