MOST of us accumulate huge amounts of data in our lives — including e-mails, telephone calls and spikes of writing activity, as measured by daily keystrokes.

Stephen Wolfram, a scientist and entrepreneur, wondered: Could all of that information be compiled into a personal database, then analyzed to tell us something meaningful about our lives? Maybe it could suggest when we tended to be the most creative or productive, along with the circumstances that led up to those moments.

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