Sports In Numbers workshop slides about algorithms, stories and the meaning of clouds.

1. Question of
Sport

2. Alastair
Somerville
@acuity_design

4. Sports as data

5. Playing with
sensors

6. Hexoskin
Clearsky

7. Wearables
Internet of
Things

8. Sensors
of person
Sensors
of place
Sense of meaning

9. Sensor Data Feeds
HR UV Power Breath Hydration
Temp EKG EMG Vagal
Tone
Articulation
EEG AVR GPS Speed Acceleration

10. Playing with data

13. Action Sensor Algorithm Device User

15. Algorithm

16. You are the
Algorithm

17. But

18. Quantity Acceleration Magnetics Angular
Velocity
Units milli-gs microteslas degrees/
second
NumPoints 620 620 620
MaxTime 4.96 4.96 4.96
MaxX 6000.64 39.14 830.06
MinX -670.97 -8.74 -819.28
RangeX 6671.61 47.87 1649.34
MaxY 6000.64 39.72 312.62
MinY -867.28 14.05 -1056.44
RangeY 6867.92 25.67 1369.06
MaxZ 5983.06 22.01 459.62
MinZ -5997.71 -8.98 -770.28
RangeZ 11980.77 30.99 1229.90

19. So

20. Heartbeat

21. Game One

22. What does this
mean?

25. Pretty much
nothing

26. No
Clouds!
Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes in The Aviator

27. Data without
contexts

28. No data on
contexts

29. Game Two

30. What sport is
this?

31. Still tricky

32. You get 3
questions

33. You can ask

34. For another data
trail

35. About the person

36. About the place

37. The answers may
be cryptic

44. Data

45. Look all around

50. Data sets create
new contexts

51. No data?

52. Get sensors

53. Connect to others

54. Remember the clouds

55. Alastair
Somerville
@acuity_design