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May 17 / 5:39am

Goal predictions

I've just enhanced the GPSLog Labs goal overall progress graph so that it now shows a prediction of the likely result based on what you've achieved so far (hopefully that's motivating, not depressing!)

It feeds your past past weekly totals into a Monte Carlo simulator to come up with a range of possible outcomes which are added to the graph.  The fainter gray lines show the upper and lower estimates, while the darkest gray lines are along the 1st and 3rd quartiles (i.e. 50% of the predicted outcomes will fall between those lines.)

This will work best for longer term goals, since it's using weeks as the unit of time, please let me know if it's not working well for your goals and I'll see what I can do.

-- Tom

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Feb 4 / 7:54pm

Updates for February 5th

There have been lots of little updates to GPSLog Labs since my last post and a couple of big new features that I'll preview here but will explain in full detail in future posts.

  • Translations: GPSLog Labs is now available in different languages. 

    By default only day and month names will be translated, but there is a more comprehensive Polish translation thanks to Lukasz.  If you want to help out translating GPSLog Labs into your language, contact me at tom@gpsloglabs.com.

  • Upload via email: On the detail page for your device you will be provided with an email address that you can email logs to (as attachments) and they will be processed.  When they're ready you'll receive a reply with the links to your activity.


    This is particularly useful if you want to upload a track recorded on your iPhone using MotionX GPS app, for example.

  • Sharing: By default all your activity on GPSLog Labs is private and visible only to you, but Logs now have a Share button that lets you generate a publicly accessible detail page, such as this one. 

    You can then share the URL on Twitter, Facebook, email, IM or wherever you like. 

    You can also get a snippet of HTML to embed the map or graphs into your own website like this:

-- Tom

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Sep 9 / 10:21pm

Updates for September 10th

This post outlines a few of the recent updates to GPSLog Labs:

  • I've added a new menu to the uploaded log files in the Inbox confirmation stage.  This allows you to quickly perform tasks on the uploaded log file should you need to by simply moving the mouse over the log file heading:

  • Graphs now shade the middle two quartiles of the data, instead of showing +/- one standard deviation, where the distribution is not Gaussian. i.e. everywhere except distances along a single route. Blame Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

  • There's a Battery Cycle Duration vs Date graph on the device's Battery Life Graph tab as I was curious to see if my batteries might be deteriorating with age (they're not yet.)

  • There's a new Total Stop Time vs Date graph on the route detail Stops tab.  This can show you if your amount of stopped or resting time is changing over time.

  • Goal graphs now have a dot showing the required amount to meet your target in the remaining time. The lines show the overall average so far (blue) and the average target required (orange), the dots reflect what you need to do per week/month to meet the target based on what you've done so far and how much time you have remaining:

  • Goals are now shown on the week's activity "dashboard" on home page.  This lets you see at a glance how you're tracking against the goals and plan what to do next:

    This shows: the goal title, the difference between your actual activity and the goal target to date, the total activity counting towards the goal this week, a percentage comparison to the weekly target.
    Under the total goal activity for the week are coloured indicators to show what day the activity occurred on. The most recent day is on the right in green, the oldest in orange on the left.

-- Tom
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