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

<h2>Background</h2> <p>This dataset comprises the self-reported ethanol consumption for hexylena starting in 2023.</p> <p>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 <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Trinkaus">John Trinkaus</a> who collected a number of informal datasets (<a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18232433/">children's emotions upon interacting with a mall santa</a>, <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15362428/">honesty in paying for votive candles</a>, <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.2466/pms.1991.73.2.613">shoe color preference</a>). All fascinating small studies! I wish I could stuff my CV with such papers.</p> <h2>Data Collection</h2> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <h2>Source of Error</h2> <p>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.</p> <h2>Changelog</h2> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td>Version</td> <td>Date</td> <td>Changes</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2.1</td> <td>2025-01-02</td> <td>Improved data consistency across years, fixed missing values</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2</td> <td>2025-01-02</td> <td>2024 data release, MeSH terms added, changed license to CC0, improved description,&nbsp;included relevant references.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>1</td> <td>2024-01-05</td> <td>Initial publication</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>&nbsp;</p>