I've arrived in Istanbul! For my next magic trip I will collapse and perhaps sleep as long as 12 hours (or not). My fitbit will tell that tale tomorrow morning, but in the meantime I'll share the analytics of my day courtesy of the health app on my iPhone. It was on my person continuously since about 5 pm Florida time yesterday, when I arrived at the airport. The data display starts at midnight in Istanbul, which was 5 pm Tallahassee.
Essentially ... walking around TLH, flying, walking around ATL, flying (various bathroom trips but mostly no bar), a lot of walking around CDG, 3 hr flight to IST (no bars), then walking around airport at IST (big bar at 5 pm), transit to hotel, walking to dinner. Yeah, I see my day there.
Pretty much no stairs.
I've got higher goals for tomorrow ... but more about that later.
Do you have an iPhone? If so, see where your stats are at.
I have tried a number of different analytical health apps and devices. One major disconnect that I have found on the device side is (and this may be more user error) that I have found a belt mounted fitbit seems to capture more that a wrist mounted.
ReplyDeletethe base for this argument is that my wife likes the wrist and I prefer the belt, we are about the same height and close to the same inseem; so our stride is relatively the same. If we were to go walk around Walmart I would have almost 1/3 more steps than her.
I post this under the idea of learning to be careful of the tools we use to measure.
Hi Mike. You are very right -- and I started with a clip on fitbit and moved to a wrist one (I wanted the heart rate), only to note that the wrist monitor does not actually catch all of my steps. Further, the health app and fitbit do not calibrate well, plus one day I was at a conference with a good friend and we checked the app, then went out to dinner and for a brief walk together and when we returned it said one of us had walked a full mile more than the other -- simply not possible. I've been planning to address this issue in a later post -- I will collect data via multiple means in a day and see how they stack up. So, the tools work for me in relative terms (today compared to yesterday), but are not precise.
ReplyDeleteAt work we get daily updates about what's going on in the media regarding education. I was pleasantly surprised this morning to see this link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/05/09/big-data-was-supposed-to-fix-education-it-didnt-its-time-for-small-data/ Hopefully you an access it. I couldn't believe just yesterday we started this course and today there's an article about big data in education.
ReplyDeleteAshley, I actually saw the same story this morning and left it open to share with the class. I'm going to pop it up as a main post to ensure more folks see it.
DeleteI use Samsung Galaxy Apps religiously, and carry my phone constantly for it. I even carry my phone during yardwork to keep those analytics as well. I get the most use out of it tracking hikes and trail runs, and pull the data on the fly to help me make decisions about my trek. My favorite feature is the GIS data, which helps me to navigate in the wild. I generally have an excellent sense of direction, but it is helpful to have a real-time bird's eye view of your position to help identify obstacles and the most efficient routes, particularly when the sun is setting.
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