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Comment on Hey Fitbit, my data belong to me! by canuck122013

canuck122013 — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 11:10:03 +0000

I had thought that all data was local to the computer and not accessed by them. Why should they have access to personally identified health information data data?

Comment on Finding Patterns Amongst Binary Variables with the homals Package by Ankur Raj

Ankur Raj — Thu, 14 Jul 2016 07:10:32 +0000

There is something called – Boolean Factor Analysis – while I have never worked on it… but I think this approach should help ….

Comment on Hey Fitbit, my data belong to me! by Barry

Barry — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 13:04:10 +0000

Hi All
I’m a squash player and I’m interested to see how my games vary with the recovery in my Heart Rate when I am playing a match. I recently acquired a Fitbit, so of course I wanted to get my hands on the raw data from the device. It turns out that it’s not all available through the standard mechanisms in the App – so, I’ve built my own interface with Fitbit’s help (through their API) and I’m now able to access lots of interesting data insights and download the data so that I can play with it to my heart’s content using Excel or similar.
The download is aimed at fellow squash players who use my free League and Ladders website, so if you are a squashplayer and/or are interested in trying this out – you are welcome to do so. The only requirement is that you register as a user of the Squash Leagues website (and you are a registered Fitbit user!).

Try it out here: http://www.squashleagues.org/fitbit/fitbitdatadownload

Comment on Hey Fitbit, my data belong to me! by RWM

RWM — Sat, 30 Apr 2016 10:11:44 +0000

Hi there, is there any manual available how to use fitbitscraper? I installed R on my Windows machine and installed the fitbitscraper package inside R. But I can not find out how to proceed…
Any help is appreciated!

Comment on Predictive modelling fun with the caret package by Dileep Vishwakarma

Dileep Vishwakarma — Mon, 25 Apr 2016 19:59:21 +0000

In reply to Jonas Mellin.

Hi Jonas,

Thanks for the glimps of varImp. But what does the varImp function in the caret package actually compute for a glm object

Some more explanation would be appreciated.

Comment on Data Until I Die: My blog title and statement of values by vicky

vicky — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 13:13:24 +0000

Nice to see this blog. Fun and helpful! A blogger with attitude.

Looking forward to seeing more articles.

Comment on Hey Fitbit, my data belong to me! by A897326239

A897326239 — Sun, 10 Apr 2016 08:07:26 +0000

Seems the code doesn’t work for any longer period of time than a week (what the author used for some reason). I constantly get error when try to scrap high-detailed data for longer period:
Error in curl::curl_fetch_memory(url, handle = handle) :
Timeout was reached

Comment on Binary Classification – A Comparison of “Titanic” Proportions Between Logistic Regression, Random Forests, and Conditional Trees by Claudiu Papasteri

Claudiu Papasteri — Sun, 27 Mar 2016 18:18:05 +0000

In reply to inkhorn82.

same can be computed as the Classification table for Logistic Regression using ClassLog() from QuantPsyc package.

Comment on A Rather Nosy Topic Model Analysis of the Enron Email Corpus by madhumitaraghavan

madhumitaraghavan — Fri, 25 Mar 2016 14:33:01 +0000

Hi! Your post helped a lot! I’m trying out the python code for filtering the data. I’m not able to get past line 51 (for email in subfolder). The for loop isn’t getting executed. I’m using the dataset from https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~./enron/ Would you be able to help me? Note: I used the updated code from your other post, but can’t find it, at the moment. Thanks a lot 🙂

Comment on Hey Fitbit, my data belong to me! by J_teds

J_teds — Sat, 27 Feb 2016 22:30:33 +0000

Me not being very good with IT stuff; what do I do with that “code”? I stick it into a text document, rename the extension to .bat and double click on it? Where does it save the csv file?