Migraine Log – Week 5

I’ve been keeping track of how many migraines I get each week since I’ve started taking Petadolex.  You’re in for a treat this week – I’ve made a snazzy graph.

The y axis, Headaches:Bad Weather, is the ratio of headaches I get to how much bad weather there was in a given week.  So if the bar goes up to 1, it means every time there was bad weather I got a migraine.  If the bar is above 1, I got migraines even when there wasn’t bad weather, and if the bar is below 1, I didn’t always have a migraine when the weather was bad.

It’s too soon to draw any real conclusions, but at least it doesn’t look like they’re getting worse!

Comments

  1. Ken');SELECT Awesome FROM comments;--injection for susie H says:

    This is pretty awesome. Save for the migraines of course. This will be neat to keep an eye on!

  2. kenton says:

    ooh! graph!

  3. Transient Theorist says:

    The northeastern brain trust (consisting of Eugenie and myself) would like to humbly suggest, in the name of generating graphical discourse and improving understandability, a few slight changes to this snazzy graph…

    We think a scatter plot of headaches on the y axis and bad weather on the x axis, with each point representing a week might be easier to interpret. Adding the y=x line for reference would let you see if there were more headaches than bad weather (points above the y=x line) or vice versa. For extra flair, you could make the individual points different colors to capture the time order of the points.

    What do you think?

  4. sarcozona says:

    @The northeastern brain trust

    You just wait until next week…

  5. Eugenie says:

    Ooooooh snap!

    *waits*

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