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How your fitness tracker could clear up traffic jams

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  • 23-08-2014 11:56pm
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    Rucking_Fetard
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    Workout fanatics are famously obsessed with the minutiae that fitness apps track, but get enough small data together and it quickly turns into big data. Recognizing the value in its aggregated data, Strava—one of the better-loved activity tracking apps—recently made the decision to sell its data to city governments looking to know more about how residents move through their streets.

    Strava's urban data sharing initiative, known as Strava Metro, grew out of the company's "heatmaps," an experiment in citywide data visualization.

    http://www.dailydot.com/technology/strava-waze-city-transportation-data-sharing/


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    Rucking_Fetard
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    Companies and insurers love fitness trackers.
    Should you?


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    stampydmonkey
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    I find that very interesting. The use of strava data for planning and investment in focused infrastructure is excellent but as per the second post..the health insurance side...its a little scary but on reading... it is inevitably the way it is going to go. Maybe not in my generation but quite possibly in the future


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    Rucking_Fetard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,260 ✭✭✭Rucking_Fetard


    stampydmonkey wrote: »
    I find that very interesting. The use of strava data for planning and investment in focused infrastructure is excellent but as per the second post..the health insurance side...its a little scary but on reading... it is inevitably the way it is going to go. Maybe not in my generation but quite possibly in the future
    Yea, it's been mostly Positives in all the Big Data Articles I've put up here but the Insurance one, the pause button needs to get hit for awhile on that to figure out how to stop that being abused.


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