Ben MacNeill is the founder of Trixie Tracker, a service that helps parents track data about their babies' development. Over the years, MacNeill tracked extensive data on his daughter Trixie, including that she used 500 diapers in her first 44 days and drank around 30 ounces of milk per day. The data showed patterns in Trixie's sleep, such as average nap length of 38 minutes. MacNeill has since expanded Trixie Tracker to allow parents to track not just sleep but also breastfeeding, food intake, medicine doses and compare data. He hopes the service can provide insights to support data-driven parenting.

1. Data-driven Parenting:
Trixie Tracker
Ben MacNeill
Founder, Trixie Telemetry
@chillnc (twitter)
slideshare.net/chillnc
ben.macneill@gmail.com
January 16, 2010 - ScienceOnline2010

2. 44 days, 500 Diapers
http://www.trixieupdate.com/2003/09/22/the-big-five-oh-oh

3. ~30 ounces Milk/day
http://www.trixieupdate.com/2004/06/27/were-all-mammals

4. The ~38 minute Nap
http://www.trixieupdate.com/2004/01/08/sleep-cartography

5. Sleep Distribution
http://www.trixieupdate.com/2004/01/19/the-good-the-bad-and-the-in-between

6. Wake-time Distribution
http://www.trixieupdate.com/2004/01/19/the-good-the-bad-and-the-in-between

7. Hours Awake - Year One
http://www.trixieupdate.com/2004/11/22/the-answer-isnt-pretty

8. Sleep Probability
http://www.trixieupdate.com/2004/03/30/any-chance-its-time-for-a-nap

9. Sleep Evolution
0 mo
6 mo
12 mo
18 mo
http://www.trixieupdate.com/2004/03/30/any-chance-its-time-for-a-nap
http://www.trixietracker.com/inside/2005/11/sleep-probability-chart/

10. Trixie Tracker is Born

11. One Million Naps

12. Sleep Charts

13. Pattern Establishment
3 mo 6 mo

14. Awake/Sleep Patterns
6 mo 6 mo

15. Not just Sleep
• Breastfeeding
• Solids and food journal
• Pumping
• Milk inventory
• Medicine doses
• Sharing and Data Comparison
• Mobile

16. Thanks! Ben MacNeill, @chillnc
ben.macneill@gmail.com
slideshare.net/chillnc