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Health trackers are the current craze. After I bought a Fitbit, I |
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wanted to determine what exactly could I do with Fitbit data. Can we |
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actually learn something from this data that we did not know before? |
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Most people don't need a watch to tell them that they walked a lot |
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today or that they got a ton of sleep. As humans we have a pretty good |
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gauge of our basic physical health. I am interested in figuring out |
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how we can use data science to look at our health data over a longer |
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period of time and learn something useful. |
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Lets look at a few things that people typically use Fitbit data for |
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before we jump into the weeds. |
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- Setting Goals |
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- Motivation |
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- Tracking Progress |
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Ever since I bought a Fitbit, I found that I went to the gym a lot |
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more frequently. Having something which keeps track of your progress |
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is a great motivator. Not only is your daily steps recorded for your |
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own viewing, you can share that data with your friends as a |
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competition. Although I only have 1 friend on Fitbit, I found that was |
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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 |
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saying that "I will get in shape" is a terrible goal. In order for you |
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to actually accomplish your goals, they need to be quantifiable and |
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measurable. Rather than saying "I will improve my health this year", |
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you can say "I will loose ten pounds this year by increasing my daily |
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step count to fifteen thousand and going to the gym twice a week". One |
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goal is wishy washy where the other is concrete and measurable. Having |
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concrete data from Fitbit allows you to quantify your goals and set |
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milestones for you to accomplish. Along the way to achieving your |
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goal, you can easily track your progress. |
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Simply knowing your Fitbit data can help you make some better educated |
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decisions about your fitness. By comparing your data against what is |
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healthy you can tweak your lifestyle. For example: if you notice that |
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you are only getting 6 hours of sleep per night, you can look up the |
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recommended amount of sleep and tweak your sleep routine until you hit |
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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 |