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Feature Engineering Made Easy
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Feature Engineering Made Easy

by Sinan Ozdemir, Divya Susarla, Michael Smith
January 2018
Beginner to intermediate
316 pages
7h 14m
English
Packt Publishing
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Activity recognition from the Single Chest-Mounted Accelerometer dataset

This dataset collects data from a wearable accelerometer, mounted on the chest, collected from fifteen participants performing seven activities. The sampling frequency of the accelerometer is 52 Hz and the accelerometer data is uncalibrated. 

The dataset is separated by participant and contains the following:

  • Sequential number
  • x acceleration
  • y acceleration
  • z acceleration
  • Label

Labels are codified by numbers and represent an activity, as follows:

  • Working at a computer 
  • Standing up, walking, and going up/down stairs 
  • Standing 
  • Walking 
  • Going up/down stairs 
  • Walking and talking with someone 
  • Talking while standing

Further information on this dataset is available on ...

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