Ethanol consumption for an individual known as "hexylena": an informal look

Background

This dataset comprises the self-reported ethanol consumption for hexylena starting in 2023.

I generally believe more individuals should collect data and publish on it, as that makes the world more colourful and interesting, they'll potentially be of interest to future researchers or historians. I was inspired by a video on John Trinkaus who collected a number of informal datasets (children's emotions upon interacting with a mall santa, honesty in paying for votive candles, shoe color preference). All fascinating small studies! I wish I could stuff my CV with such papers.

Data Collection

Data was collected with consent of the subject, via a google form which they used to enter the data. In 2023 this consisted of only volume and ABV, in 2024 this was expanded to include a beverage type, and a reason the individual chose to consume a beverage at that moment.

Both of these new fields have been excluded from final publication due to privacy concerns. The 'reason' field has been manually coded into a number of categories, and that coding as been supplied instead.

Source of Error

I estimate that this is an approximately 98% complete dataset, I was very fastidious but nevertheless there is room for collection error due to a number of potential factors: mislabelling, lack of labelling for low-percentage consumption (e.g. an overly ripe banana), or a handful of cases where I was given a glass with unclear measurements. However, as is clear from the dataset, I was rarely so impaired that data was ever lost for that reason.

Changelog

Version
Date
Changes

2.1
2025-01-02
Improved data consistency across years, fixed missing values

2
2025-01-02
2024 data release, MeSH terms added, changed license to CC0, improved description, included relevant references.

1
2024-01-05
Initial publication