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Smartphone apps can track where we eat our meals, when we
commute to and from work and how many minutes we exercise each day. Ten
thousand steps today? Check.
More people are opting to use their phones as “life-logging”
devices, but is the data they collect actually useful? Massive amounts of
information showing your life patterns over a week, month or year are going
untapped because these applications don’t have a way to interpret the data over
the long term.