FIT files record the activities of people using devices such as sports watches and bike head units. Platforms such as Strava and Zwift understand this now quasi-standard format. So does Perl! Here I discuss how to parse FIT files and calculate some basic statistics from the extracted data. Gotta love that data I love data. Geographical data, time series data, simulation data, whatever. Whenever I get my hands on a new dataset, I like to have a look at it and visualise it. This way I can get a...
