Training stress, that is. If we want to measure the impact of training on performance, we need a way to quantify the training. This is not a new problem. Methods like Bannister's TRIMP have been around since the 1970's, while new takes like FirstBeat's EPOC estimation are relatively new.
The …
I've been thinking about moving this Pelican blog that you're reading over to Django.
Parts of it already come from a Django database: the publications list and CV depend on a version of a Django app that once powered vermontcomplexsystems.org.
I looked around on the internet, and of course …
I finally got around to publishing the Fitbit module of my personal dashboard!
It's here: https://github.com/andyreagan/django-fitbit-healthkit
Some fun facts:
Let’s say you have a codebase X, and a codebase Y. X produces some results or does some logic that are needed by codebase Y. What should we do to get the results (for this exercise, let’s say it’s a JSON file) from X to Y?
Last year Alex Hutchinson, in his generally excellent Sweat Science series, discovered the four level framework for data analytics:
This isn't news for people who work in data, and yet he …
Didn't hit the mark this year, and likely went too hot for the first half. Bonus: either caught COVID during the race, or dampened the immune system enough to allow the infection that I was fighting already to go full force.
DBT forces you to use SQL, even when Python or R transformations are clearer.
DBT makes a lot of sense for 80% of data pipelines, but there are steps that it just isn’t worth forcing into SQL (even when that is possible!). If the code is simpler and easier …
With Pandas ≥ 1.0, the functional API is powerful and should be the new standard.
Someone just pointed me to the pyjanitor package, which I don't actually think is very useful with Pandas >= 1.0, because the functional API for Pandas is quite powerful these days. The examples that the …
There are many possibilities for implementing custom logic, and this framework can help you sort through the options.
I have been really enjoying using the DBT to structure data pipelines, the framework it enforces requires you to structure your pipelines in a standardized way. The tool meets perfectly in the …
In the fall of 2020, I was curious about Whoop and hearing good things from some of the people I follow (Ted King). In the spirit of amateur fitness enthusiasm and research adjacent to MassMutual's wearables program, I ordered a 3.0 band in the October 2020.
Overall, I have …
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