Anyone who’s attended the ASUG/SAPPHIRE NOW event in Orlando knows you walk a lot. And thanks to a Twitter conversation of a few SAP Mentors (@gpmyers, @DallasMarks, @oswaldxxl, @ericvallo, and @twailgum), we decided to have a little analytics fun at SAPPHIRE NOW and ASUG.
Do you have a FitBit or other device for measuring steps taken, stairs climbed, distance traveled? Well, bring it with you to Orlando and join our fitness challenge. It’s easy:
- Wear your device Tuesday – Thursday
- Export your data as a CSV and/or Excel file
- Send the file to sapbizanalytics@gmail.com by Monday, 5/20
We’ll import all that data into SAP Visual Intelligence (thanks to Timo Elliott) to explore the results and determine the winner. Results will be announced via a YouTube video a la Data Geek on Friday, 5/24.
Winners will get full bragging rights and the opportunity to give their friends a good ribbing – something that Jamie, Greg, Dallas, Eric, and Thomas will certainly enjoy. ;-)
So what do you say? How far do you think you’ll walk? Care to throw down a gauntlet?
Greg did 37.05 miles, 73,000 steps, and 64 flights of stairs last year, while Dallas walked 48.92 miles, 89,000 steps, and 62 flights of stairs. Marie Alami predicts I’ll win, because of all the sessions I cover as @SAPAnalytics, but I’m a bit gimpy after foot surgery, so we’ll see. I’m willing to be embarrassed, though. As you can tell, I’m already getting my excuses ready.
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May 7th, 2013 at 5:39 am
Bring it! I’m going to try and best my totals from last year.
There is also an SAP Community Challenge going on this year to benefit Doctors Without Borders. If you are up for a little extra charity this year, head on over and sign up. Everyone is welcome:
http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-40394
May 7th, 2013 at 7:23 am
I knew you’d be up for the challenge Greg! And great idea to tie it to the Doctors Without Borders benefit! I didn’t want to tie my challenge to physical activity, since I don’t know if I’ll even be out of this silly boot by then and did want to raise money, ;-) but I did put out there 50 cents for every retweet of @SAPAnalytics during SAPPHIRE NOW. :-)
I wonder if the rest of the mentors are up to the physical challenge? :-)
May 7th, 2013 at 1:23 pm
Count me in… I don’t have a FitBit, but a Fuelband. It’s capable of measuring steps and distance though…
May 7th, 2013 at 2:35 pm
Awesome Matthias! I put Marie Alami up against everyone as she’ll be walking all over videotaping people for SAP Analytics TV. :-)
May 7th, 2013 at 3:04 pm
Bring it on! ;)
May 8th, 2013 at 8:42 am
Well, I am in! I’ve already challenged myself in the #SAPCC – and I have a number of sponsors to benefit Doctors Without Borders (http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-40394) so you may as well get to track me here too!
Let’s go!
May 8th, 2013 at 9:25 am
Awesome Sue! See you at SAPPHIRE! And thanks for contributing to #SAPCC!
May 14th, 2013 at 5:59 am
I started my XLS last night for my old school pedometer! Steps taken FTW!
May 14th, 2013 at 3:34 pm
How many have you steps have you taken Derek? I think Greg is going to whomp us all! He was at something like 13K steps midday today. Slug that I am, I’m at just over 7K towards the end.
May 19th, 2013 at 7:26 pm
Just submitted my activity. Can’t wait to see the output.
May 20th, 2013 at 8:42 am
Awesome Jamie! Got it! Thanks!
May 22nd, 2013 at 6:51 am
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May 24th, 2013 at 1:42 pm
The results are in and Daniel Graversen (@dgraversen)is the winner of the fitness analytics challenge at SAPPHIRE NOW. Check out the great SAP Lumira video that Timo Elliott created with data: http://youtu.be/V4ZdkJgrP7g.
Thanks to everyone who participated! Keep walking!
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