Monday, May 11, 2020

5 Million Step Man

Another year of Chuck does Data Science. For the 2019 year, I challenged myself to walk 5 million steps for the year which broke down to ~13000 steps per day. Crushed the goal and ended up going over 6 million steps for the year (6098464 to be exact) which was ~16000. Calculating that 2000 steps is a mile for me, I walked about 3050 miles. You see a pretty major dip in the number of steps in November because I strained my calf playing basketball during the early part of the month.

For the data visualizations this year I mostly worked on using the GPS data to get some interesting stats from the year. For instance, the number of times I walked the same routes. By far my favorite route is the Chuck route which I only got to do once, but is fun to look at. Below are a breakdown of step stats from the year and a link to the visualizations.

Total steps for the year: 6,098,464
Average steps per day: 16,708
Average steps per week: 117,278
Average steps per month: 508,205
Most steps in a month: 604,290 (August)
Least steps in a month: 318,127 (November)
Most steps in a day: 37,687
Least steps in a day: 1,123
Percentage of days meeting goal of 13000 steps: 297/365 81%
Sunday Steps Total (Avg):        734,654 (14,128)
Monday Steps Total (Avg):       943,700 (18,148)
Tuesday Steps Total (Avg):       996,785 (18,807)
Wednesday Steps Total (Avg)909,695 (17,494)
Thursday Steps Total (Avg):     950,875 (18,286)
Friday Steps Total (Avg):          822,101 (15,810)
Saturday Steps Total (Avg):      740,654 (14,243)
Most walked route: Bar Walk (300 times)


Data visualization can be found here.
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