YAY! More data!

I wore three pedometers today: my regular FitBit, the Pulse, and the Omron. Again, I set the Omron as the standard against which the other two were judged.

All three pedometers were worn on my waistband.

Here are the totals over the course of the day:

(I noted what I was doing during the time periods. If not noted, assume mostly sitting around. I noted the driving solely because none of the pedometers gave me any steps while I drove, which is good.)

Here are the steps and differences each time period:

Tomorrow, I’ll get my end-of-the-day counts for the three days, and see how things came out at the end of the day.

And NOW, I am going to attempt to enjoy the start of my weekend.

I’m going to update this through the course of the day.

I’m wearing the Withings and my beat-up FitBit next to each other, clipped to my belt. The Omron and the old FitBit that don’t hold a charge are inside a cargo pocket.

Yes, I AM putting this into Excel, calculating the differences, and I’ll probably make a chart of it. Like I do.

I WILL DO SCIENCE TO IT

FitBit = clipped to belt
Pulse = clipped to belt
Omron = in pocket
FitBit 2 = in pocket

8:15 AM
FitBit: 1099
Pulse: 912
Omron: 1013
FitBit 2: 1147
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Because I am a HUGE DORK I wore three pedometers today: The Omron HJ-720ITC Pocket Pedometer, the Fitbit Ultra, and a brand new Withings Pulse.
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I wasn’t kidding about how much I love collecting data on things. Somewhere around here I have a sheet noting the cold water temperatures over the course of six months.

But this is pedometer data, specifically, the number of steps taken. FitBit didn’t give me any other particularly useful data, so I worked with what I had.

Total Steps: May 2009 – July 2013

Note that there are no steps June 2010. And really, there are only steps for half of May. Because that’s when I broke my ankle. You can see it took a year and a half before I got back to where I was before the break.

Yearly Totals
2009: 2507143
2010: 2117909
2011: 2410617
2012: 3645755
2013: 1761365
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So, Michael pulled out my data. I have to say what he could get wasn’t impressive.

What interests me is the activity data: how many steps, how many miles, how many flights of stairs, steps over the course of the day, what time of the day I’m most active…

So. I got daily totals for steps and distance.

Yeah, not really impressive. But, at least it’s something to play with.

Here we have weekly steps. That peak in July 2012 was our vacation. The trough immediately following was the discovery of my cousin Ben’s death and his funeral. Talk about literal highs and lows…

The low point of the end of Dec 2012 / start of Jan 2013 was vacation week, where I laid around and read books and didn’t do much of anything else.

The lowest point was when I got pink eye AND some kinda virus the same week, and my only activity was getting up to go to the room of resting.

Here is the data presented by month. Please note that I removed the partial months of January 2012 and July 2013.

Interesting to note that the drops from October through March correlate with a rather nasty bout of depression. That was kind of a vicious circle: I didn’t walk because I was depressed, and the less I exercised, the more depressed I got. But you can see I’m slowly getting back on track.

Something else I’d like to point out, is that FitBit didn’t give me any steps for bicycling, so a 20 mile bike ride counts for nothing as far as FitBit is concerned. But as far as my MOOD is concerned, it’s exercise, and definitely counts.

Once I figure out the best way to do so, I’m going to take the data from my Omron pedometer and combine it with the FitBit data, and that should give me close to five years of data. What I wish I had was some calculable measure of my depression over those five years, so I could see how my exercise and depression relate over time.

Not sure how to do that, however, since typically I don’t even realize I’m going through a bout of depression until I’m well into it. And it’s very hard to gauge “how depressed am I today” since that tends to be a comparison only to the previous day or two, which isn’t a very accurate measure.

So, there’s the first of my data crunched. Once I figure out how to combine this with my Omron data, you can expect EVEN MORE EXCITING data, looking at steps over an even LONGER period of time!

We spent the day together–as in, with the exception of Rooms of Resting, we weren’t more an a few steps from each other for the entire day.

Which is why Michael is annoyed by our step totals.

Michelle: 19647 steps

Michael: 17503 steps

I WIN!!!!!

ADDENDUM the First:
I have, in fact, hit 20k steps since we got home.

First up, the marvelous Gina, hanging out with Ricky Martin the Metal Chicken, and Ada Lovelace the Metal Chick.

So sweet!
 
 

Wednesday I went overboard.
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I am so very lucky! This week, Tania contributed to my geek, with a stunning piece of art to take to work.

That’s right. Abraham Lincoln riding a T-Rex.

I also sported some awesome new earrings:
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No clothes to share this week, but I did get new toys!

Skeleton Legos and a zombie lunch box/travel home for Ada Lovelace the small metal chicken.

You can also see in the background my new Dia De Los Muertos coin purse. It’s larger than I was expecting, but since I’ll be putting more than change in it, that shouldn’t be an issue.

I got some other things from Etsy, but haven’t used them yet. (And my Day of the Dead wallet is still my favorite.)

My Lego Skeleton and Horse HAVE ARRIVED!

HUZZAH!

What on earth could be in here?!

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I mentioned over the weekend on Twitter that after having two legal beverages of choice Saturday evening, I came home and made an Amazon order.

And then after receiving my loot, I realized I had to send an email to Amazon.

WHERE IS MY SKELETON HORSE?!

Well, past two weeks, actually.

Victorian City Skirt

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