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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. | |||
| Lets look at a few things that people typically use Fitbit data for | |||
| before we jump into the weeds. | |||
| - Setting Goals | |||
| - Motivation | |||
| - Tracking Progress | |||
| 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. | |||
| 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. | |||
| 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. | |||
| Alright, lets do some data science! | |||
| ![Tom and Jerry Data Science Meme]() | |||
| # Getting The Data | |||
| # Visualizing The Data | |||
| # Pulling Outside Data | |||
| # Analysis | |||