An Analysis of Exercising Behavior in Online Populations

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  • David Jurgens
  • James McCorriston
  • Derek Ruths
چکیده

How does exercising behavior vary with age and gender? Introduction and Motivation Data Exercise is an important component of health. Previous studies of exercise and health have been stymied by the lack of accurate records of exercising activities. In our study, we overcome this limitation by using data from Fitocracy, a gamified workout tracking site that precisely records users' workout histories using over 1,000 unique exercises and where users self-report their age, gender, and height. We analyze nearly half a million users' histories to identify exercising behavior trends and how those behaviors vary by age and gender. All of a user's activities, profile, social data, and group memberships on Fitocracy were crawled over a six-month period to acquire the complete profiles and workout histories of 441,034 users. Ultimately, 188,265 users recorded at least one workout, with the total dataset comprising 3,130,276 workouts (14.3M activities) over nearly a four year span from February 2011 to January 2015.

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تاریخ انتشار 2015