Comments on: Tonight.im mashes up Withings data with foursquare checkins (and I love it) http://www.everydayux.com/2010/05/11/tonight-im-mashes-up-withings-data-with-foursquare-checkins-and-i-love-it/ design, innovation, mobile, social and emerging tech links for you Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:29:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Christina DesMarais http://www.everydayux.com/2010/05/11/tonight-im-mashes-up-withings-data-with-foursquare-checkins-and-i-love-it/comment-page-1/#comment-690 Christina DesMarais Wed, 19 May 2010 04:56:17 +0000 http://www.everydayux.com/?p=1864#comment-690 Thanks anyway. Thanks anyway.

]]> By: arainert http://www.everydayux.com/2010/05/11/tonight-im-mashes-up-withings-data-with-foursquare-checkins-and-i-love-it/comment-page-1/#comment-688 arainert Tue, 18 May 2010 18:41:13 +0000 http://www.everydayux.com/?p=1864#comment-688 I don't know the developer so sadly I don't have an in there. I imagine the list will move quickly though. I don't know the developer so sadly I don't have an in there. I imagine the list will move quickly though.

]]> By: Christina DesMarais http://www.everydayux.com/2010/05/11/tonight-im-mashes-up-withings-data-with-foursquare-checkins-and-i-love-it/comment-page-1/#comment-686 Christina DesMarais Mon, 17 May 2010 22:08:17 +0000 http://www.everydayux.com/?p=1864#comment-686 I tried signing up to test out the alpha version but apparently just got put on a list. Any suggestions for getting off the list and into the service? I tried signing up to test out the alpha version but apparently just got put on a list. Any suggestions for getting off the list and into the service?

]]> By: Daniel Zenon Klein http://www.everydayux.com/2010/05/11/tonight-im-mashes-up-withings-data-with-foursquare-checkins-and-i-love-it/comment-page-1/#comment-681 Daniel Zenon Klein Tue, 11 May 2010 21:26:17 +0000 http://www.everydayux.com/?p=1864#comment-681 From a dieting PoV, not a very good idea. What you see in weight changes from day to day is mostly based on your liquid content at the time of weighing. Presenting the data like this strongly overemphasises short term fluctuation.<br><br>The Hacker's Diet (<a href="https://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/HackDiet/" rel="nofollow">https://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/HackDiet/</a>) has a very nice online weight-tracking feature which generates a weighted average curve of your recent data points, mathematically massaging out the fluctuations and showing you a good trend. <br><br>It would be interesting to think about how one could fix this mashup to put less emphasis on short-term fluctuation and single-day decisions. If a number of locations could be tagged as "indulgences", i.e. places one goes to procure the good foodstuffs, and if the number of visits per week to indulgences could be compared to the general trend for that week, maybe that would be more useful. From a dieting PoV, not a very good idea. What you see in weight changes from day to day is mostly based on your liquid content at the time of weighing. Presenting the data like this strongly overemphasises short term fluctuation.

The Hacker's Diet (https://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/HackDiet/) has a very nice online weight-tracking feature which generates a weighted average curve of your recent data points, mathematically massaging out the fluctuations and showing you a good trend.

It would be interesting to think about how one could fix this mashup to put less emphasis on short-term fluctuation and single-day decisions. If a number of locations could be tagged as “indulgences”, i.e. places one goes to procure the good foodstuffs, and if the number of visits per week to indulgences could be compared to the general trend for that week, maybe that would be more useful.

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