Exploring the Apple Health Export

Apple-Health-Export

A series of posts exploring what’s in the Apple Health Export. Blog posts about the Health Export will be listed here.

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July 1, 2022

This series of posts digs into the contents of the Apple Health Export, a snapshot of the data collected and displayed via the Health app on the Apple iPhone. The Health Export of the data from my iPhone and Apple Watch includes more than three million rows and is larger than any other dataset I have worked with. What is in all that data?

A Nerd Visits the ER with His Apple Watch – Twice

Life with an Apple Watch

Using the Apple Health Export data to show the context of a visit to the ER.
Sep 14, 2022
John Goldin

Apple Health Export Part I

A deep dive into the Apple Health Export (data from the Apple Health app). It describes how to create the export and then import it into R. It also provides a very complicated procedure to adjust the time stamps into the correct local time.
Feb 16, 2020
John Goldin

Changes in Apple Health Export

Another post on the contents of the Apple Health Export. This post shows how some measures have changed as new version of Watch and iPhone have been released. The examples focus on resting heart rate and VO2 Max.”
May 25, 2021

Fall Detection

Exploring an example of fall detection via the Apple Watch and interpreting the event via details from the Apple Health Export.
Oct 12, 2022
John Goldin

announcement card for my RStudio conference talk about the Apple Health Export

Notes for RStudio:Conf 2022 Talk on Apple Health Export

Some items to supplement the talk at RStudio::Conf2022.

Background information related to the Apple Health Export, the topic for my talk at rstudio:conf 2022, and video of the talk.
Jul 18, 2022
John Goldin

a plot showing sleep stages by time of night along with heart rate, respiration rate, and heart rate variability

Sleep Data in the Apple Health Export

Where to find sleep data in the Apple Health Export and some examples of how to display the data.
Feb 11, 2023
John Goldin

iOS 16.2 Fixes Apple Health Export

Version 16.2 fixes a problem introduced with version 16.0 of the Apple Health Export. The export of version 16.0 and 16.1 did not produce a valid XML file. This post describes a work-around provided by user etresoft on the Apple Support forum that repairs the exported XML file so that it can be imported. This is no longer needed as of version 16.2.
Oct 20, 2022
John Goldin
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