2013 with Fitbits

2013 is near its end and it’s time to see what happened during the last 360 days or so. Many things happened (graduated from MBA, new house, holidays, ill a few days, …) but I wanted to know if one could quantify these changes and how these changes would impact my daily physical activity. For that purpose I bought a Fitbit One in March 2013. I chose Fitbit over other devices available because of the price (99 USD at the time) and because it was available in Europe (via a Dutch vendor). At that time the Jawbone Up was unavailable (even in the USA) and the Nike Fuelband couldn’t track my sleep. ...

December 23, 2013 · 6 min · jepoirrier

The Joy of Stats

Here is yet another interesting video from Prof. Hans Rosling :-) From the video: “Believe me, there is nothing boring about statistics, especially not today when we can make the data seen”. For the rest, watch the video … http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/oOOmqHzkkOo?fs=1&hl=en_US Btw, it is also featuring David McCandless whose work was already shown here before. Re- :-)

December 28, 2010 · 1 min · jepoirrier