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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 | |||||