Behavior, change? Reflections on collecting my personal data.
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Three small experiments with activity trackers fitbit ultra and jawbone up. Goal: 10000 stpes per day. For the Quantified Self Meetup Berlin on January 2014.
Behavior, change? Reflections on collecting my personal data.
- 1. BEHAVIOR, CHANGE? Re?ections on collecting my personal data.! ! @holgerd! mail@holger-dieterich.de
- 2. EXPERIMENT 1/3 ? What did I do?! ? How did I do it? ? What did I learn?
- 3. WHAT DID I DO? ? Curious about quanti?ed self, I started tracking in January 2012 (without any concrete goals).
- 4. EXPERIMENT 1/3 ? What ? did I do? How did I do it?! ? What did I learn?
- 7. HOW DID I DO IT? ? Wore a FitBit Ultra day and night ? Jan 2012 - July 2012 ? Nov 2012 - Sept 2013
- 8. EXPERIMENT 1/3 ? What ? How ? did I do? did I do it? What did I learn?
- 10. FITBIT ULTRA CC BY-NC-SA http://www.?ickr.com/photos/m-s-y/8043464454/
- 11. WHAT DID I LEARN? ?I am a very ordinary human. ?I do not walk enough, but my sleep is good. ? Charging and syncing things always sucks. ? Measuring your baseline is fun, but only for a few months. ? Wait, who owns my data?
- 12. -> BEHAVIOR, NO CHANGE
- 13. EXPERIMENT 2/3 ? What did I do?! ? How did I do it? ? What did I learn?
- 14. WHAT DID I DO? goal: ? 10.000 steps per day ? New
- 17. EXPERIMENT 2/3 ? What ? did I do? How did I do it?! ? What did I learn?
- 18. HOW DID I DO IT? ? Told my wife about it. ? Tried to enjoy walks even if they where not to have some cappuccino or cake.
- 19. Go for more walks (red lines) My iPhone trail (via trail.meteor.com, data: moves-app.com)
- 20. Go for walks Places I¡¯ve been to in central Berlin (via 4sqmap.com, data: foursquare.com)
- 21. EXPERIMENT 2/3 ? What ? How ? did I do? did I do it? What did I learn?
- 23. Daily Steps by Tracking Device! 35000! Fitbit Ultra! 30000! Jawbone Up! steps! 25000! 20000! 15000! 10000! 5000! 0! 07.06.13! 14.06.13! 21.06.13! 28.06.13! 05.07.13! day! 12.07.13! 19.07.13! 26.07.13!
- 25. Nightly Sleep by Tracking Device! 700! FitBit Ultra! 600! Jawbone UP! minutes of sleep! 500! 400! 300! 200! 100! 0! 07.06.13' 14.06.13' 21.06.13' 28.06.13' 05.07.13' night! 12.07.13' 19.07.13' 26.07.13'
- 26. STATWING FTW!
- 27. STATWING ANSWERS ? ?There is no statistically signi?cant difference between steps ?tbit and steps jawbone¡° ? ?sleep jawbone tends to be larger than sleep ?tbit"
- 31. BUGGY :( ? Jawbone broke, waited one month for replacement, no data for August. ? June/July data was missing in CSV export.
- 32. WHAT DID I LEARN? ? Data missing ? Fitbit & Jawbone Up get the same results for me ? ?Honey, ? But did you make your steps today?¡° does help :) walks & festivals are not enough
- 33. -> BEHAVIOR, A LITTLE CHANGE
- 34. EXPERIMENT 3/3 ? What did I do?! ? How did I do it? ? What did I learn?
- 35. WHAT DID I DO? ? Get a routine to achieve 10.000 steps per day.
- 36. RUN & MEASURE CHANGE photo CC BY-2.0 http://www.?ickr.com/photos/lehnin78/6786019820/sizes/l/
- 37. EXPERIMENT 3/3 ? What ? did I do? How did I do it?! ? What did I learn?
- 38. TEMPELHOF AIRFIELD photo CC BY-2.0 http://www.?ickr.com/photos/belenko/6938718103/sizes/l/
- 39. HALF MARATHON
- 40. Berlin Half Marathon plan on runkeeper.com
- 41. WITHINGS SMART BODY ANALYZER photo: Withings
- 44. HOW DID I DO IT? ? Committed ? Measured to a workout plan my body fat every day ? Entertained myself while running
- 45. EXPERIMENT 3/3 ? What ? How ? did I do? did I do it? What did I learn?
- 46. I CAN RUN REGULARY
- 47. Comparison 111 days before/after start of running Variables Median Average Standard Deviation before 7948 8960 4565 after 10795 11176 4528 before: feb 2nd, 2013 - May 31st, 2013 (?tbit), after: sept 12, 2013 - Dec 31st, 2013 (jawbone)
- 48. My body fat since I started running via trendweight.com, data: Withings
- 49. WHAT DID I LEARN? ? Seeing any data is a motivating reward. ? Seeing change is extremely motivating. ? Other ?runners¡° greet you on the ?eld. wtf? ? Weather ?A is never bad. detailed plan helps a lot.
- 51. CONCLUSION ?I am not a machine, but technology helped me as a nerd start doing sport. ? My ?I data should be mine and easy for me to retrieve. should learn R.
- 52. BEHAVIOR, CHANGE. Re?ections on collecting my personal data.! ! @holgerd! mail@holger-dieterich.de