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Hello and Happy New Year, blog readers! I hope everyone's having a great 2018 so far. This month will mark the third year that I've had a Fitbit and you know what that means, right? I now have 3 years-worth of Fitbit data!
2017 was the first year where I met my step goal of 10,000 steps every single day. In fact, it's now been a solid 380 days since I last missed my goal. I intend on keeping this streak up in 2018. It should be noted that I participated in a Workweek Challenge with my Fitbit friends pretty much every week in 2017 which helped keep me accountable. Using Stata 15's newest graph transparency feature to plot my steps over the last 3 years you can see 2017 steps are consistently above 10k, though they're not as high as 2016's steps (as you'll recall, I trained for and ran 2 half marathons that year). 
My steps in 2017 were fairly consistent with a range of 11k-14k average daily steps on a monthly basis. The chart below shows the average daily steps I took by month for each year that I've had my Fitbit:
Note that I don't have a full calendar year's worth of data for 2015 as my Fitbit arrived mid-January and it was stolen for a few days in October that year. Keeping that in mind here are the annual stats for each year that I've had my Fitbit:
Total steps taken: 2015: 3,695,222 2016: 5,257,825 2017: 4,747,316 Average steps taken per day: 2015: 10,528 2016: 14,366 2017: 13,006 My daily step maximum per year: 2015: 20,825 which happened on Sept. 6 2016: 42,431 which happened on June 5 2017: 23,503 which happened on Jan. 16 Number of days I missed my 10k daily step goal: 2015: 125 2016: 16 2017: 0 Using Google Charts, I've plotted the data below on a Calendar chart:
In the first 4 days of 2018 I've averaged 13,290 steps per day. It's also worth noting that I'm currently winning my Workweek Hustle as you can see in the small snippet below.
Cheers to 2018 and I hope this year's step counts are even better than last year's! 
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Let's get local. I'm talking about San Diego beer. This is the third post regarding data I've downloaded and cleaned from BreweryDB. For a while now, I've been wanting to map all the breweries in San Diego County. Why? Well, for starters, San Diego is a great place for craft beer enthusiasts and I keep hearing about how many breweries there are in SD County. Secondly, why not? If you've got the data, use it. So now with BreweryDB and their brewery information, I can finally do that. See the map I made below. Note, however, that this map doesn't include ALL breweries in SD County. The data from BreweryDB that I downloaded is only for breweries that had at least one "verified" beer entry in their database. Also, I only included unique breweries, leaving out tasting rooms or additional brewery locations. This left me with 76 breweries which have been mapped below:
This visualization was made with Stata and Google Charts API using the links to brewery icons from BreweryDB. Any breweries without icons are shown with default red markers.
Of the available beers in BreweryDB for these 76 SD County breweries, the make-up of beer styles is as follows:
It's a pretty good variety of beer and it's great if you love Pale Ales, IPAs or Double IPAs as those seem to be the most common types of beers brewed in SD (within the North American Origin Ales category).
Using Stata's gpsbound command, the 2010 Census county shape files, and the latitude and longitude brewery information within the BreweryDB dataset, I summed up the number of breweries in each county and each state.
*This only includes breweries from BreweryDB that had at least one verified beer entry in the database.
California ranks first in terms of unique breweries among states and San Diego County ranks first among the counties from this dataset. San Diego is a pretty great place if you like craft beer (and even if you don't, San Diego is a pretty likable place with perfect weather). The breweries here make all kinds of beers and most tasting rooms are dog and family friendly. Go check one out if you're around. Some of my favorite SD County breweries are:
This is a continuation of the work I did in part 1 using BreweryDB data. I've cleaned most files with brewery and beer information (only 44 files could not be parsed using insheetjson in Stata, but I'm working on those separately, they will be included in my analysis at a later time). For now, this analysis only includes files which I was able to parse.
So, who makes beer? Breweries. What styles are there? Well let me tell you. There are the following styles in BreweryDB. Under each style there are up to 170 beer categories (or sub-styles?) like the ones I described in Part 1.
Looks like the unique count of breweries with North American Origin Ales style surpasses all other counts with close to 3,500 in this (somewhat complete) sample. With the explosion of micro-breweries, and all kinds of people getting into beer, I guess I'm not too surprised. So, what types of beers are contained within this style? I've summarized them here. The top 50% of the North American Origin Ales are made up by the following styles: American-Style India Pale Ale (19%), American-Style Pale Ale (15%), American-Style Amber/Red Ale (11%) and the Imperial or Double India Pale Ale (9%). See table below.
Interesting. To be honest, I don't like IPAs, pale ales, or IIPAs. They're just too hoppy for my taste. Pass me a Belgian instead. On that note, here are the counts of breweries who make Belgian & French Origin Ales.
A lot lower than the North American Origin Ales, but with the IPAs growing out of control (or so it feels like they are here in San Diego), I guess that makes sense. Plus, while there are fewer breweries that make Belgian and French Ales these types of beer seem to have been around longer. For example, the earliest established brewery with Belgian and French Ales is in 1121 by Leffe versus 1471 for the earliest North American Ale which interestingly enough corresponds to the beer style "Golden or a Blonde Ale" made by none other than a Belgian Brewery: Hetanker. Aren't Belgian breweries just the best?
I've mapped the breweries that make Belgian and French Origin Ales below that are located in California, Texas, North Carolina, New York, and D.C. Why these states? These are the states where most of my site's visitors are from :)
Like I said in the first post, there's a lot of data and I've only shown you a little bit of it! Look forward to more posts that use additional variables that I haven't even mentioned and maybe cooler maps. Cheers!
A few days ago, I attended the San Diego Economic Roundtable at the University of San Diego which included a panel of experts discussing the economic outlook for San Diego County. My favorite speakers were Marc Martin, VP of Beer, from Karl Strauss and Navrina Singh, Director Product Management, from Qualcomm. Singh had a lot to say about data, technology, innovation and start ups in San Diego County. Did you know that there are 27 coworking spaces, accelerators, and incubators in San Diego? I sure didn't. Martin's discussion of beer, all the data he showed, along with some cool maps, sparked this blog post which has been a long time coming. In case you don't know, I'm quite the craft beer enthusiast! Allow me to nerd out as two of my favorite things come together: data and craft beer.
Martin's talk focused on the growing number of microbreweries and craft beer data. Here are some cool facts I came away with from his presentation that are worth mentioning again:
On to my blog post: While searching for beer data for this blog post, I stumbled across a gold mine: BreweryDB.com. I got access to their data using API. In the last few days, I've looped through over 750 requests using Stata's shell command and Will's helpful post on Stata & cURL. In the table below I've detailed the number of beers (listed as results) under each style ID in BreweryDB's database. There are a total of 48,841 beers as of January 17, 2016. When filtering for the word "Belgian" in the style name, I got a total of 5,883 beers. Can you guess what my favorite type of beer is? :) I made the table below using Google Charts API table visualization. There are a total of 170 beer style IDs under BreweryDB and I've summed up the number of beers under each style. You can sort by ID, Beer Style or Results by clicking on whichever column title you'd like.
Disclaimer: This product uses the BreweryDB API but is not endorsed or certified by PintLabs.
Seeing as BreweryDB's data is extensive and I'm oh-so excited to share with you some of my findings, I've decided to make a series of blog posts about this. This is why this is part 1. This is only the tip of the iceberg, my friends, and I'm not sure how big of an iceberg I'll be uncovering, but stay tuned for more.
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: 
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:
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 :)
I was playing around with some Google Charts yesterday and I stumbled across their Calendar charts. I thought it would be cool to display changes in Fitbit activity by displaying step differentials using this visualization.
The legend is as follows:
The chart above shows 145 days of data with varying levels of competition. Unfortunately for me, there are mostly blue cells. Will's a runner, so unfair advantage, right? With the exception of September, I beat Will's step count for a total of 7-8 days out of the month. In September I beat his step count for a total of 14 days. Still, that was only 46% of the days in July. Go Will! He takes the lead 75% of the time. You can see the cell colors becoming lighter from July to November. In other words, the step counts were converging, meaning 1 of 2 things: 1) We got more competitive, or 2) we both got less competitive as time went on. See for yourself below:
Looks like a slight downward trend from August to November.
These cool charts were made in Stata and use Google Charts API :)
Not long ago, I was introduced to Google Charts. Ever since, I've been obsessed. I now love using Stata and combining it with Google Charts. Step 1: Clean data using Stata, Step 2: present data using Google Charts. Result: Easy to read and aesthetically pleasing visualizations for my website. Perfect.
Last month, I scraped Hayek's instagram data and made a paw-some map from the extracted latitude/longitude pairs using Google Charts and an .ado file that I came across thanks to Will, written by a former coworker of his called gmapmark which writes an .html file that creates a Google map. See said map in my dog blog: http://www.belenchavez.com/hayek/dog-friendly-sd
I decided to improve that program by incorporating the ability to have different markers for the data points by using web addresses that point to .png, .gif or .jpg images (like I did for the paw prints above). I've also added the ability to name your data points, instead of simply showing the latitude/longitude information. I've called that program gcmap short for Google Charts map. For more on making map visualizations check out Google Charts. 
Example 1:
Do you own an iPhone? Do you use Photos? While I do use the Photos app on my phone, I don't like it on my computer, so I keep a separate folder of uploaded pictures that Photos doesn't touch. Back to the point, one of the features that Photos has is the ability to make a map of your pictures if your pictures have location information. Did you know that we can also make such a map using Stata and Google maps? You didn't? Well, now you know :) Let's say I want to make a Google map from several pictures I have in a folder called Hayek. How do I do that? Well first, I will extract the latitude and longitude information using exiflatlon that I have thanks to Will's post on exif information. clear version 12.1 cd Hayek exiflatlon, dir() clear * Exclude files missing lat/long data drop in 1/14
This makes the following dataset with latitude and latitude information from exif data in the pictures contained in the following folder:
I type the following into Stata after downloading gcmap and placing it in my personal ado folder. In the following example, I want the name() of the data points to be the file names from above contained in the variable "File". The option nor() contains the web location of the icon to display for the data points, which is short for normark(). The sel() option contains the web location of the icon I want to use for once a data point is selected on the map, it's short for selmark().
gcmap using "hayek_paws.html", latitude(Lat) longitude(Lon) name(File) ///
zoom(11) ///
nor(http://www.belenchavez.com/uploads/5/6/9/3/56930511/9243470_orig.png) ///
sel(http://www.belenchavez.com/uploads/5/6/9/3/56930511/5261019_orig.png) ///
replace
Which makes the following map:
Note: I could have left the nor() and the sel() options empty and this would have made a map with the usual red balloon marker points. See example below.
Example 2: I can also make a Google map from the Google location history data I have for a couple of days back in October and use the time stamp as the name for each point. Here, I don't specify nor() or sel(), so the default map markers show up. gcmap using "trip.html", lat(latitudeE7) long(longitudeE7) name(tstamp)
And there you have it! Now you too can use gcmap to make cool Google maps using Stata. Easy, right?
So today we decided we wanted to go shop at an outlet mall, but the question was, which one to choose? We could either go to Carlsbad Premium Outlets up in North County or Las Americas Premium Outlets right by the border.
To help make the decision, we looked up what stores the outlets had. I searched online for a solid comparison of the two outlets but results were slim and the only things I found were old threads on Yelp! or TripAdvisor comparing the quality of the two. The Simon websites do have a list of the stores at each outlet, but it was hard to go through the list and switch windows to see differences/similarities in store listings. See store directories for Las Americas and Carlsbad. Here is an easy to read table that you can SORT by clicking on the outlet names. Cool, huh?
This list also includes restaurants and kiosks. Carlsbad has a total of 101 shops, and Las Americas has a grand total of 169 shops. So you could probably guess where I went :)
I made the table above by copying the store listings to text files, importing them to Stata, cleaning up the variables, renaming the stores to have proper() case before merging the two datasets. Finally, I used Google Charts API to display the results.
I recently got back into Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ) after being out of training for a year and a half. To be honest, I don't know if I should even count the training I did in 2014, as I only trained for about 3 to 5 months and stopped due to commuting and work. My better half has been training BJJ for a while now and we go watch IBJJF competitions (IBJJF: International Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Federation), such as the World's Championship or the Pan-American Championship whenever they are going on in Southern California.
With the rise of female fighters in the UFC such as Ronda Rousey (my personal favorite and my idol), and female grapplers like Mackenzie Dern, I've been more excited to join in on what has traditionally been a male-dominated sport. For this blog post, I decided to look at the share of women competitors at the Pan-Ams (which in the past few years has been the biggest BJJ tournament in the planet) over time. The data shows that women have been making up a greater share of competitors in the last few years. In 2012, about 24% of white belts were women, and this past year 37% of white belts competitors were women. For almost every belt level, the share of women competing went up. Brown belts declined from 2014 to 2015. Overall, women competitors went from making up 15% of competitors in 2012 to 22% in 2015. I'm excited to see that women are making up greater shares of competitors. I plan on scraping more data from the IBJJF website to get a bigger picture of competitors for all tournaments and will update with new numbers if the data exists.
This data was parsed from registrations for the Pan Jiu Jitsu Championship from ibjjf.com using Stata.
2013 Data is missing. Graph was made with Google Charts API. Analysis is for adult women and men only (excludes juvenile, master, or senior competitors).
Thanks to my Fitbit Charge HR, I have been tracking my activities, such as running, walking, and Barre3. Logged activities on Fitbit include a summary of calories burned, minutes spent in different heart rate zones, total time of activity, and steps taken. I wanted to see if different instructors were having a different effect on my workouts since I sometimes left a hot mess and other times not so much after leaving Barre3. So, I started tracking activities and have a total of 94 classes in a sample that I've analyzed to figure out which instructors pushed me the most. Below, I’ve plotted the average number of minutes spent in each heart rate zone from fat burn, cardio, to peak zone along with my instructors .
Not only did this visualization help me figure out which instructors were pushing me the most it also helped me realize that I was spending less than 15 minutes in the cardio zone (on average) doing the online workouts! I guess the class atmosphere is more effective (plus, sometimes Hayek would interrupt my workouts - he really likes my yoga mat). As you can see, Jenn, Kate and Lauren helped me spend more time in the peak heart rate zone, so their classes were the ones I liked to attend the most. I originally made a dashboard on Tableau by downloading my activity data on Fitbit, cleaning up the data using Stata, saving it as a .CSV file and then playing with different visualizations on Tableau Public. I originally also posted the Tableau chart here, however, when displaying it on my blog it didn't seem to be mobile friendly so I used Google Charts API instead. It ended up being a win-win: I learned something new and now mobile readers will have an easier time scrolling through the chart. |
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