We built a web app so anyone can make these kind of charts a few years ago, measured in months, not weeks. [0] I like how in this version certain weeks are annotated with historical events.

0) https://discotraystudios.github.io/my-life-in-months/

Thanks! We've hardwired a few things like the age label, but are trying to keep it general enough for other uses.

I recently started a community-focused software development studio this fall with five of my undergraduate students. Earlier this summer, we found the My Life in Month charts by Isabella Benabaye[0] and Sharla Gelfand[1] very intriguing! In addition to being a convenient way to share a visual history of your life with friends and family, these charts can help you focus on the bigger picture and context of you life events.

We wanted to expand the appeal of My Life in Months beyond R programmers, so we ported the idea to JavaScript, using d3 waffle charts as the basis for visualization, and wrapped it up in a website where anyone can make their own chart. This is our first project working together, and its helped us gain a lot of web development and Github skills. We'd love to have your feedback for improvement, thank you!

[0] https://github.com/isabellabenabaye/life-chart [1] https://github.com/sharlagelfand/mylifeinmonths