Tutorial: Making sense of Fitbits’s JSON export

Fitbit has improved its online data exporting tool to allow export of all the accumulated data, a big step up from their previous export tool that was limited to averages over a limited period of time.With devices that are meant to be worn 24/7 to track everything from sleep, steps and heart rate, the amount…

Tutorial: Stress detection with wearable devices and Machine Learning

This blog post presents an automated machine learning approach in Python to create a stress monitoring system with data from devices such as fitness trackers. With the rising popularity of trackers that monitor biological signals 24/7, there is only a matter of time before the technology matures and everyone will be wearing their own ‘doctor…