Baby Analytics

For those that have been missing my posts, you probably don't know that my wife and I welcomed a son into our family earlier this year. Unfortunately, sleep deprivation kept me from being able to code (and think) effectively. I did end up with some new data though. For those without newborns, you might not be aware that parents are recommended to keep track of their baby in a notebook (or phone app) for the first few months of their life. This data comprises how much our son eats, when he has a diaper change, what his temperature is, etc.

Using this data, I thought it might be interesting to see if we could perform some analytics. Here's a list of problems I'm looking to tackle:

• Can you predict growth spurts with this data?
• Can you detect abnormal or just a change in behavior from this data?

It's going to take me a month or so to enter the data into a spreadsheet, but once it's up I'll put together another post with some visualization of that data.