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- Health trackers are the current craze. After I bought a Fitbit, I
- wanted to determine what exactly could I do with Fitbit data. Can we
- actually learn something from this data that we did not know before?
- Most people don't need a watch to tell them that they walked a lot
- today or that they got a ton of sleep. As humans we have a pretty good
- gauge of our basic physical health. I am interested in figuring out
- how we can use data science to look at our health data over a longer
- period of time and learn something useful.
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- Lets look at a few things that people typically use Fitbit data for
- before we jump into the weeds.
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- - Setting Goals
- - Motivation
- - Tracking Progress
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- Ever since I bought a Fitbit, I found that I went to the gym a lot
- more frequently. Having something which keeps track of your progress
- is a great motivator. Not only is your daily steps recorded for your
- own viewing, you can share that data with your friends as a
- competition. Although I only have 1 friend on Fitbit, I found that was
- a good motivator to hit the ten thousand steps per day.
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- Goals which are not concrete nearly never get accomplished. Simply
- saying that "I will get in shape" is a terrible goal. In order for you
- to actually accomplish your goals, they need to be quantifiable and
- measurable. Rather than saying "I will improve my health this year",
- you can say "I will loose ten pounds this year by increasing my daily
- step count to fifteen thousand and going to the gym twice a week". One
- goal is wishy washy where the other is concrete and measurable. Having
- concrete data from Fitbit allows you to quantify your goals and set
- milestones for you to accomplish. Along the way to achieving your
- goal, you can easily track your progress.
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- Simply knowing your Fitbit data can help you make some better educated
- decisions about your fitness. By comparing your data against what is
- healthy you can tweak your lifestyle. For example: if you notice that
- you are only getting 6 hours of sleep per night, you can look up the
- recommended amount of sleep and tweak your sleep routine until you hit
- that target.
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- Alright, lets do some data science!
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- ![Tom and Jerry Data Science Meme]()
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- # Getting The Data
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- # Visualizing The Data
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- # Pulling Outside Data
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- # Analysis
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