Monzo experiments

26.08.2020, to see all post click here.

The goal of this small evening project was to display my transaction history on a map and a calendar. This was partially inspired by this blog post, basically I was thinking of how to put more information into my calendar to explore my behaviour - how often do I shop? Do I make a lot of small purchases?

I don't think I have really discovered anything new and interesting about my behaviour but I had fun playing with the Monzo data.

Map

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Calendar

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Why is it so hard to display my own data?

In general getting this data and displaying it in this form was quite complicated task. I am frustrated that data that is mine is so hard to obtain and I am not in control of it.

I think data that is produced by me should be much more available to me. It should be super easy for example to work with them in excel format. I don't think I should be doing any programming to display this data.