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Date Published
Author
Scott Anderson
Word count
850
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Scott Anderson, a father, shares an experience of his 9-year-old daughter conducting a science experiment on whether playing video games affects blood pressure. She collected data by measuring and recording the blood pressure of willing participants before and after playing Mario Kart 8 for 7 minutes. With the help of her father, who is familiar with InfluxDB, they converted the handwritten results into line protocol and built queries to answer questions such as what was the average change in blood pressure overall and if sex or age mattered. The final dashboard provided a visual representation of the data, including percentage changes, which helped her draw conclusions about the experiment's findings, including a 2% drop in blood pressure on average, with males experiencing a higher drop than females, and younger subjects showing less change in blood pressure compared to older subjects.