Strava Club Visualizer: Strava Club Heatmap and Segment Explorer
How can we help Strava Cycling users find clubs, explore new routes and meet new cycling partners?
View the Project on GitHub CSE512-16S/fp-rickixie-taoaoao-collnwalkr-lilizeng99
Team Members
Collin Walker (cwalker2), Yitao Wang (yitaow), Si Xie (rickixie), Li Zeng (lizeng)
Project
Abstract
Recent years have seen the increasing popularity of fitness tracking applications, among which Strava plays a leading role in facilitating online communities by individual connections and activity-based clubs. Given the limited visualizations Strava currently offers regarding club activities, we propose Strava Club Visualizer, an exploratory visualization for Strava users, allowing cyclists to find prospective clubs, explore new routes and meet new partners. To better understand the problem space we adopted a user-centered design process where we interviewed Strava end-users to gather our design specifications. Our implementation reduces the visual cluster and allows users to query dynamically with spatial and temporal dimensions. In addition, our visualization yielded positive feedback regarding system’s usability, visual appearance, and the capability to facilitate interpersonal relationships.
Software
Try out our visualization online here.
Materials
Running Instructions
Access our visualization at http://cse512-16s.github.io/fp-rickixie-taoaoao-collnwalkr-lilizeng99/development/ or download this repository and run python -m SimpleHTTPServer 9000 and access this from http://localhost:9000/.