All questions can be answered with sufficient data. And sufficient data can answer the right questions. I’ve been collecting a list of movies that I’ve watched throughout my life. The list on my movies page is a set of pretty useless data as far as I can see. Perhaps I just don’t know the questions to ask.
Here’s what the data shows (as of 2007 July 14):
- 475 = number of movies watched (and I’m watching movie 476 right now)
- 712.5 = estimated number of hours spent watching movies (at estimated 1.5 hours per movie; 712.5 hours = 29.7 days). These calculations are highly inaccurate.
- I have records of movies watched from 7/10/1994 through 7/14/2007.
- I have watched a number of movies (that I have counted) that I don’t have a date reference to.
- It can be assumed I’ve watched movies throughout my life.
Someday, I might be able to answer some cool questions with the data I collect. Until then, I’ll just keep watching movies, some good, some bad.