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Data Types and Categories

Outline of Data Types and Categories

This outline groups data types by their purpose (e.g., activity, health, events) and lists their categories in plain language, using actual values where available. Categories are specific types or measurements tracked within each data type.

1. Activity-Related Data Types

These track daily activities like sleep, steps, and shopping.

  • Sleep
    • Purpose: Tracks how long and how well you sleep.
    • Endpoints: Fetch detailed sleep data or summaries over time.
    • Categories: Includes sleep duration, quality, and patterns (detailed or averaged over intervals like days or weeks).
  • Steps
    • Purpose: Counts your daily steps to measure physical activity.
    • Endpoints: Get detailed step counts or averages over time.
    • Categories: Includes total steps taken (detailed or averaged, e.g., per day).
  • Shopping Activity
    • Purpose: Records shopping-related activities.
    • Endpoint: Fetch shopping data, either detailed or summarized.
    • Categories: Tracks shopping events (e.g., purchases, time spent).

2. Health-Related Data Types

These monitor physical health metrics.

  • Weight
    • Purpose: Measures your body weight and fat percentage.
    • Endpoint: Load weight data.
    • Categories: Includes weight (in pounds or kilograms) and body fat percentage.
  • Heart Rate
    • Purpose: Tracks how fast your heart beats.
    • Endpoint: Load heart rate data.
    • Categories: Includes beats per minute (BPM) during activity or rest.
  • Resting Heart Rate
    • Purpose: Measures your heart rate when you’re relaxed.
    • Endpoint: Load resting heart rate data.
    • Categories: Includes beats per minute (BPM) at rest.
  • Blood Pressure
    • Purpose: Monitors blood pressure levels.
    • Endpoint: Load blood pressure data.
    • Categories: Includes systolic (pressure when heart beats), diastolic (pressure when heart rests), and possibly notes on conditions like normal or high pressure.
  • Blood Sugar
    • Purpose: Tracks glucose levels in your blood.
    • Endpoint: Load blood sugar data.
    • Categories: Includes glucose levels (e.g., fasting, after eating) and source (e.g., finger prick).
  • Body Temperature
    • Purpose: Measures your body’s temperature.
    • Endpoint: Load temperature data.
    • Categories: Includes temperature readings (e.g., in Celsius or Fahrenheit).
  • Pulse Oxygen
    • Purpose: Checks oxygen levels in your blood.
    • Endpoint: Load pulse oxygen data.
    • Categories: Includes oxygen saturation percentage (e.g., SpO2).

3. Event-Related Data Types

These record various personal events, managed through a single endpoint (/v3/event/) for adding, updating, or deleting.

  • Blood Glucose
    • Purpose: Logs blood sugar events.
    • Categories: Includes levels like fasting, after meals, or random, plus the sample source (e.g., blood).
  • Blood Pressure
    • Purpose: Records blood pressure events.
    • Categories: Includes systolic and diastolic measurements, possibly labeled as normal, high, or low.
  • Body Metric
    • Purpose: Tracks general body measurements.
    • Categories: Includes things like height, weight, or body mass index (BMI).
  • Audio
    • Purpose: Logs audio-related activities.
    • Categories: Includes audio, song, podcast, audiobook.
  • Content
    • Purpose: Tracks content you engage with.
    • Categories: Includes general content, web pages, feeds.
  • Image
    • Purpose: Records image-related events.
    • Categories: Includes image, photo, screenshot.
  • Interactive
    • Purpose: Logs interactive experiences.
    • Categories: Includes interactive, game, form.
  • Text
    • Purpose: Tracks text-based activities.
    • Categories: Includes text, book, blog, article.
  • Video
    • Purpose: Records video-related events.
    • Categories: Includes video, movie, TV show, livestream, podcast, music video.
  • Exercise
    • Purpose: Logs physical exercise events.
    • Categories: Includes:
      • static_balance
      • dynamic_balance
      • stability
      • daily_activities
      • rehabilitation
      • injury_prevention
      • static_stretching
      • dynamic_stretching
      • joint_mobility
      • muscle_activation
      • self_massage
      • sword_arts
      • basketball
      • volleyball
      • tennis
      • pickleball
      • badminton
      • squash
      • soccer
      • ultimate_frisbee
      • rugby
      • american_football
      • flag_football
      • archery
      • bowling
      • table_tennis
      • golf
      • cricket
      • lacrosse
      • field_hockey
      • handball
      • boxing
      • kickboxing
      • wrestling
      • judo
      • activity_other
      • sport_other
      • exercise
  • Cardio
    • Purpose: Tracks cardiovascular exercises.
    • Categories: Includes activities like running, cycling, swimming (exact list not visible in truncated spec).
  • Strength
    • Purpose: Records strength training activities.
    • Categories: Includes exercises like weightlifting, resistance, bodyweight (exact list not visible).
  • Emotion
    • Purpose: Logs your emotional state.
    • Categories: Includes feelings like happy, sad, angry, calm (exact list not visible).
  • Stress
    • Purpose: Tracks stress levels.
    • Categories: Includes levels like low, moderate, high (exact list not visible).
  • Core Event
    • Purpose: Records general events.
    • Categories: Includes things like appointments, tasks (exact list not visible).
  • Event Group
    • Purpose: Groups multiple events together.
    • Categories: No specific types; used to organize other events.
  • Note
    • Purpose: Stores personal notes.
    • Categories: Includes types like personal, reminder, journal (exact list not visible).
  • Nutrition
    • Purpose: Tracks food and drink intake.
    • Categories: Includes meal, snack, drink, plus details like calories and nutrients (exact list not visible).
  • Symptom
    • Purpose: Logs health symptoms.
    • Categories: Includes issues like headache, fatigue, nausea, tied to body parts (exact list not visible).

4. Environmental Data Types

These monitor surroundings like air, weather, and pollen.

  • Air Quality
    • Purpose: Tracks air pollution levels.
    • Endpoints: Get current, forecasted, or location-specific air quality.
    • Categories: Includes measures like PM2.5, air quality index (AQI).
  • Weather
    • Purpose: Records weather conditions.
    • Endpoints: Get current, forecasted, or location-specific weather.
    • Categories: Includes temperature, feels-like temperature, wind speed, wind gusts, humidity, cloud cover, UV index, pressure, visibility, precipitation.
  • Pollen
    • Purpose: Tracks pollen levels.
    • Endpoints: Get current, forecasted, or location-specific pollen data.
    • Categories: Includes pollen types like tree, grass, weed.

5. Diary and Location Data Types

These log personal events and movements.

  • Diary Events
    • Purpose: Records events in your daily life.
    • Endpoints: Fetch detailed or summarized diary entries.
    • Categories: Includes event types like meetings, workouts (exact list not visible).
  • Location
    • Purpose: Tracks where you are or have been.
    • Endpoint: Load location data.
    • Categories: Includes coordinates (latitude, longitude), altitude, speed, direction.

6. Miscellaneous Data Types

These cover other tracked items.

  • Assets
    • Purpose: Manages files like images or documents.
    • Endpoints: Fetch assets by ID or URL.
    • Categories: Includes file types like photos, recordings (no specific list).
  • Plans
    • Purpose: Schedules recurring activities.
    • Categories: Includes details like next scheduled time, streak (e.g., days completed), recurrence pattern.
  • Templates
    • Purpose: Reusable event patterns.
    • Categories: Matches event types (e.g., audio, video) for reuse.

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