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by TeMPOraL 3848 days ago
The point being, you have to actually do some movement to reap the benefits of metrics. The current trend among people both in fitness and in ad analytics is to have pretty graphs (with details often abstracted; because smoothing things up and removing scales makes a graph prettier) that give little more than pleasure and sense of being in control. People often don't know what they mean, besides "higher is good, lower is bad". We can do better than that. Charts and dashboards are means to an end.

And I say that as a person who absolutely loves pretty graphs. AprilZero's design is exactly what I dreamed of building for my own tracking. But again, it's not the data that matters, it's what you conclude from it.