Human
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Human helps you understand your daily activity.
Bram Kanstein (@bramk)
Human Cities — Real-time activity in 900 cities around the world
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Paul Veugen
Human motivates people to move 30 minutes or more every day and hosts 20,000 Human Clubs where people share their daily activity and motivate each other to get active. We want to inspire people to get active together. Every day people on Human track over 3M activities. Since we launched Human little less than 2 years ago we logged more than 1.1 Billion activities. Human Cities shows how people around the world achieve their daily goals. We keep stats for 900 cities and rank them based on overall activity, walking, cycling, running and other activity. Last year we visualized activity in 30 major cities. That was an interesting first step that gave us great insights about activity in our biggest communities and triggered interest from local municipalities, researchers, and others interested in our data. This new version of Human Cities is our first attempt in keeping real-time stats on a large scale. We want to build our community around these cities and share anonymous insights with others aiming to improve our world. We believe data can help to shape the future of our cities and create an environment that inspires people to get active.
Rutger Teunissen
Sounds amazing! Are be able to add other cities? Or does it require a couple of people asking for the same city? Also, nice design!
Paul Veugen
@rutgerteunissen You can unlock your city. Invite your local friends and get them active on Human, we'll add more cities in the coming months...
Julian Lehr
This is incredible! Would love to see all these activity numbers in combination with other data. E.g. by adding weather data you could see if a rainy day had an influence on the time people spend outdoors running, cycling etc. PS: Added to the Quantified Self / Life Logging collection :)
Sten Tamkivi
This idea has been super cool since the first visualization attempts and you should be really proud of the visual and functional improvements in this iteration, @pveugen & team! We are also very proud to have @TeleportInc data integrated to provide more context of where all these people move. :)
jns.eth
Super cool idea. :)
Loren Baxter
This is awesome @pveugen, congrats! Some surprising results in there, San Francisco needs to step it up with the running :D
Majd Taby
Congrats on the launch, @pveugen! Super cool to see the emergent properties of human behavior at scale.
Paul Veugen
@jtaby Thanks Majd!
Gert Jan Spriensma
The website looks great! Use the app one week now and love it!
Marc van Agteren
Great execution!
Hans Petter Eide
Looks great! Any plans to make an Android app?
Paul Veugen
@hanspeide Definitely! For now we've been focused on iOS only, but we can't wait to start on an Android version.
Pieter Korevaar
Looks great guys! Nice work on the design @robertvklinken. 👏
Glen One N
Downloaded and using it. One first comment is that my Runkeeper app captures my walks even without the app being active in the background. Will that function be available to your app in the future too? Thanks for the great site guys.
Paul Veugen
@cute_life We use motion and location services to learn more about the context of your day. This way we can track a variety of activity in almost real-time and build engaging functionality on top of the data you collect. Running in the background let's us ping you at the right times and connect you with others, and not just show steps whenever you open the app.
Glen One N
@pveugen @cute_life Yeah man. I understand that real time data is best for you and in the long term good for me... but I like the fact that Runkeeper can work independent from me and not force me down the route they wish me to follow is a major turn on ;) I'll continue to use your app no worries.
Cinzia Pinamonti
What a cool idea! Beautiful website and design.
Stacey MacNaught
This is absolutely amazing. Cracking work.
Alejandro DeLaTorre
Wonderful!
Alan
The visuals are stunning! Hmm...just brainstorming here. I do a lot of work in developing parts of the world - especially across Africa and India and have been working on a human rights framework for technology implementation using visuals very similar to this. Would love to see this branch out to the social impact sector. Happy to discuss in more detail. Imagine the benefits of having the world's energy use mapped, in real time. That's what I'm working on. So super excited to see this. Grrrrreaaaatttttt job!
Paul Veugen
@alanaut24 Thanks Alan! For now we're focused on mapping the world's activity and inspiring people to get active. Let me know if you have any questions about our data, tech stack, or when you have ideas on how to put our data to use to improve our environment.
Sten Tamkivi
@alanaut24 just a random thought sparked from your comment: "human.co rights" - @pveugen to take it from here :)