An Overview of 2015 with My Fitbit

I got my Fitbit on January 15, 2015 and I have been obsessed with it ever since (sorry not sorry, friends and family). I figured that now that 2015 is over, I'd look at my step trends for the year. The graph above shows my total daily steps in blue and my average monthly steps in pink. As you can see, my average daily steps went up after July and remained above 10k throughout the end of the year.

I wasn't meeting goal very often before July and this is evidenced in the graph below.  It counts how many times I missed my step goal for every month in 2015:
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I got better at meeting goal and became more competitive as more people I knew (like Will) got Fitbits and challenged me with Fitbit's Goal Day, Weekend Warrior, Daily Showdown and Workweek Hustle challenges.

Using Stata and Google Charts API I made the following graphic which shows my steps above or below my goal of 10k. 

This was motivated by my Fitbit  & Google Calendar Chart blog post. The legend is similar: 

• Blue: Daily steps above 10k
• Orange: Daily steps below 10k
• The deeper the color, the greater the difference from 10k. Similarly, the lighter the color, the closer I am to 10k steps.
• Rows denote days of the week. From top to bottom: Sunday - Saturday.
• The outlined blocks represent months, and the columns represent days in those months.
• Greyed out cells represent missing data. Beginning of January I did not have a Fitbit, and I got my Fitbit stolen in October.

This includes a total of 344 days. My average daily steps for 2015 was 10,593 steps, and for the months of July through December was 11,910. Also, as the Stata graphs above illustrate,  the months of February  through June show a lot of days where I missed my step goal. 

For 2016, I'm aiming to have a lot more blue cells with darker shades of blue. That's my resolution :)