{"id":2898,"date":"2008-09-03T08:20:07","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T08:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/03\/find-a-pattern\/"},"modified":"2008-09-03T08:20:07","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T08:20:07","slug":"find-a-pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/03\/find-a-pattern\/","title":{"rendered":"Find a Pattern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s this graph?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-a75dff54a6e3045c912b6b9596291d83-sm_feeding_pattern.jpg\" alt=\"i-a75dff54a6e3045c912b6b9596291d83-sm_feeding_pattern.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The cosmic microwave background? Preliminary results from the LHC? No, it&#8217;s SteelyKid&#8217;s feeding schedule. The horizontal axis is in days since we brought her home, the vertical axis is time of day on a 24-hour scale (in half-hour bins), and the color scale indicates the duration of the feeding in minutes.<\/p>\n<p>If you can spot any clear pattern in this, you&#8217;re doing better than I am. There may be a hint of a developing pattern toward the end (she&#8217;s eaten at 1am, 8am, 1:30 pm, and 5pm each of the last four days), but there&#8217;s still a lot of scatter. There were some points in the first week when things looked fairly regular, too, but that fell apart pretty quickly.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll keep tracking this, though, and it&#8217;ll be interesting to see if a real pattern emerges over the next few weeks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s this graph? The cosmic microwave background? Preliminary results from the LHC? No, it&#8217;s SteelyKid&#8217;s feeding schedule. The horizontal axis is in days since we brought her home, the vertical axis is time of day on a 24-hour scale (in half-hour bins), and the color scale indicates the duration of the feeding in minutes. If&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/03\/find-a-pattern\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Find a Pattern<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-steelykid","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}