6 Years of Searching

How does the data look like? Why does Lisa google more?

2010-05-13 10:22:13+02:00 The ncrease of my

berlin sushi
Google Searches over

on Google
the years results from 2015

988
2010-05-25 10:16:46+02:00
stadt weimar fundbüro
How do I read this graphic?
checking the weather
Every bar stands for one week. 2012-12-28 12:44:52+01:00 & directions
The higher the bar, the more queries oxford events more often

Example: Cities
include the name of the city on the
line. Black bars indicate the weeks 2013-10-20 18:21:30+02:00 2011
in which I actually lived in the city. sainsbury high street oxford opening times 177
The white path shows in which order Google searches
I moved from city to city. 2015-07-17 17:28:55+02:00 for directions
"Toronto, ON, Canada -> Montreal, QC, Canada"
Where does that data come from?
Hi! My name is Lisa. Here you can explore my Google behaviour. The story of Since April 2015, Google allows 2015-07-30 23:11:21+02:00 Google searches
2011 14
for weather
my Google Searches is the story of me moving to new cities. In this graphic, everybody to download an archive new york weather
2015
of all their Google Search history
I show the almost 7,000 queries which include the name of one of the cities in queries. Go here to try it yourself: 2015-08-26 09:57:45+02:00 126
which I lived more than three weeks between June 2010 and March 2016. history.google.com/history apartment new york

How many times I studied in Weimar

in total did I search between 2008 and 2014.
for this city? In 2011, I already knew
the city – and it’s too
small to have to google
for directions very often. I returned to Weimar for
the last time when I wrote
my Master’s thesis.

Weimar
625 queries
My internship in New Visiting a friend
York was exciting for in Toronto.
me, while I was there
– but I googled for
Toronto the name of the
606 queries city the most when
I was working on my
internship documenta-
Toronto was my first tion a few weeks later.
long stay in an foreign
country. Shortly after Oxford is
Frankfurt arriving, I tried to almost as
157 queries understand everything: small as
Cells, banks, elections, Being in
Internship Weimar:
the subway, the best New York for
in Frankfurt. Searching
restaurants. conferences.
for direstions
wasn’t
necessary
New York during my
633 queries exchange
Visiting New York semester.
during my time in
Toronto.

Oxford
154 queries

Berlin
4186 queries

I moved to Berlin after

I have family in Berlin, so graduing and visited MeetUps
I’ve visited the city frequently. in unknown places almost daily.
My first longer stay was for The gaps indicate vacations.
Washington the School of Design Thinking.
256 queries Few Google searches imply that
I didn’t use the city’s potential as

March 2016
June 2010

much as I did in 2015 and 2016. Visiting Washington,

DC while being in
New York.
2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016