Adriana’s Data Collection: What my steps mean

In this Mini Data Collecting project I decided to track the amount of steps I take on a daily basis. The reason I decided to track my steps is because I recently started to become more active, since now staying home and doing nothing is not as exciting and fun as it used to be. At times I felt trapped as if i were a caged animal. But also everyone around me has been telling me I look different, and by different I mean slimmer. Weight has always been an issue in my life but I didn’t really care/pay much attention to it, but now I can see the difference.

On average I take about 8,000 or more steps, this includes the commute to school, walking to different classes, my daily exercise and just other miscellaneous steps. I found that pretty shocking since I always felt as if I barely did any walking since I always try to find an alternative to walking. For example, my job is a 20 minute walk from my house, but 10 minutes by bus, I choose the latter. Since I know myself, I am a lazy person at heart, especially on the weekends so I try my best to just take it easy.

However if a random person were to casually look at my data, I feel as if they’ll say that it’s more towards the weekend that I start to become more active and take more steps. They may even say that the reason i may be so active is because im either at work or just going out a lot. My assumptions would be that over the weekend is when everything happens so naturally i’ll be more active and in the starting of the week im nit as active because im trying to get back into routine and no one really likes the beginning of the week to start off.

Some good educated guesses would be that in the beginning of the week she doesn’t like to do much, she goes out a lot on weekends, and friday’s are the days where she does a lot of stuff. In addition to this it’d be that Tuesdays are the lazy days sort of. The reason as to why these educated guesses can be made is that if you see in the chart below the amount of steps increase once the weekend starts to come and then decreases once the weekend is over starting the cycle all over again. Which isn’t unusual since everyone tries to go out and have some fun and decompress after a long week of school and work. The reason as to why i mentioned tuesday being the lazy day is because of how low my step count was on tuesdays 

In the end this project helped me to realize that although it may not seem like much i am constantly active and moving unlike how i was in highschool, since i know in highschool i was much laxier, but also if I continue at this rate I think it may help produce a better lifestyle for me in the future.

Steps per Day

For my data collection, I collected the time I spend on social media within one week. Thanks to my iphone, I am always told my screen time for every week and day. More specifically im told how long I spend on each app. The two social media platforms I tend to use most are snapchat and instagram. I went on my phone to track how long I spend on ot these apps within one week to analyze what days I use them most and why.

If someone were to just take a glance at my data, they will probably assume I rely on social media a lot for the main reason that there is at least one minute every day of the week spent on both these apps. Some other guesses may be that im barely on my phone on tuesdays or that i’m just the busiest this day for the main reason that tuesdays have the lowest amount of time being spent on these apps. Also, some may guess that I prefer instagram over snapchat because I spent more time on instagram this week than Snapchat. Is this really true? No, the only reason why I spent so much more time on instagram tis week was because this was the week I dyed my hair, so Instagram gave me more ideas. Usually or mostly always, I use snapchat way more. I don’t really use instagram because I don’t really bother about what other people post, and on snapchat is where I communicate with my friends.

If someone takes the guess that i’m busiest on tuesdays, they are correct. I am barely on either app or on my phone this day for the main reason that i’m in school all day from 12pm to 7pm. Tuesdays are different than thursdays because I have lab on tuesdays. When I have lab it means that after my first class ends at 1:40pm, I only have community hour then lab and Thursdays I have a 3 hour break until my 4:30 class. This explains why I have no time to be on social media tuesdays. I usually just eat during the hour and a half break I have, or print out my labs.

It was not hard at all collecting data for this project because my phone does it automatically. I really don’t know if I can turn off a screen time tracker or not. Looking at my data, I tend to be on social media the most on Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. The reason for these results are because on Sundays I usually take the day to relax for myself since I know I have school the next day, then mondays and wednesdays would be because I finish all my classes by 10:40am. Lastly, fridays reason would be because I don’t have school fridays so im free to get distracted. Adding on to my data analysis, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays I spend the least time on either app because im in school all day and on Saturdays, I usually spend this day with family.

Finally, the assumption that I rely on social media a lot is mostly false. I try not to use social media as much just because I don’t care about what other people are doing. The only times I really look at other people’s posts or stories might be when im really bored, other than that it doesn’t interest me. Also, although I don’t rely on social media to make my day, I do rely on it when it comes to contacting friends and people. Snapchat and Instagram are two of the easiest ways to contact my friends even if I have their numbers. I believe this is a true fact because people are usually on social media meaning they will see my message much quicker while they’re on snapchat or instagram. Finally one very important point is that I don’t look at my feed when using instagram, I look at the explore page for the main reason that I don’t really care about what other post unless its creative. I usually just look at funny videos, skincare, or softball videos on the explore page.

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