Comment on Open thread, Jul. 11 - Jul. 17, 2016

Sun, 17 Jul 2016 11:05:43 GMT

There needs to be some sort of incentive: either prizes, inherently interesting data, or some important intellectual/scientific point to it

I think there a scientific point for those QS data sets that can be automatically measured with a high scale of granuality. Very frequently people measure less data because they don't want to store all the data that a single sensor can produce.

Currently acclerometer data get's compressed into the variable of "steps". That variable has the advantage that it has an intuitive meaning but it's likely not the best possible variable to gather when doing scientific work about how Pokemon Go leads people to do more exercise.

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