Dataviz of gps run traces

A few days ago I started a small project about data visualisation. The data being gps traces of a run club I joined in 2021.

Here is the new repository called datavizRun.

The motivations are:

• to improve my data science skills
• to make sens of data
• to produce nice visuals
• to answer questions about those data
• to have fun playing with data

Status of the project afer one week

I think I passed the stages of:

• gathering data
• formating/cleaning data
• reaching the 20% Pandas level
• interacting with the formated data and getting answers
• producing basic visualizations
• identify flaws in my data, eg when the conversion of .gpx files to my data structure revealed some information are missing

DataBase

I did choose to represent my data as:

• a list of DataFrame
• single DataFrame highlighting information about the list

Pipeline

I have for now three notebooks:

• one for importing the raw data, eg the .gpx files and save them as .csv files
• one for datavisualization and making request about the database such as what is the longest run?, what is the average run distance? … and this is pretty easy as since I have information in a Pandas DataFrame I can easily extract many insigths
• one for a second cleaning pass

What’s next?

For sure to generate more visuals, add more raw files meaning re-running my notebooks in the right order to update the database. The list of to-do is infinite:

• improve my code = get faster answer about the database
• create more visuals
• add dynamic to the visuals as for now everything is static and ideally put everything into a TouchDesigner. project