Precedents

I was inspired to create Spotyourself as I wanted to create a technical project to improve my coding skills. I am very interesting in ways in which we can visualise ourselves in the our everyday lives and creating art out of different types of data, a musical data selfie. 

I was inspired by the browser history Chrome extension available at https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/iconic-history/hfacpfhgpmaifaanbmgbbjkfgelookom?hl=en  I like how this project conveyed an overview of that persons browsing habits over the past months and days. I was inspired to also create a visual overview for the user where they can reflect on their habits and themselves, to encourage memory. I also drew a lot of inspiration from http://dataphys.org/list/ and the way in which they displayed data. I originally thought about just creating a physical sculpture from the Spotify data but then decided I wanted to refresh my coding abilities and try make it web based!