Compiling data from its wearable-device users, UP by Jawbone has created an interactive map revealing sleep and activity patterns in some of the world’s major cities.
Jawbone calls its compilation of statistics a "cultural thumbprint" of each city and many statistics were true to presuppositions. It shows what percentage of the population in a given major city is asleep, and at what time, as well as the number of steps the average user has taken per day at any given point.
For example, the city of Tokyo, well known for its long work day and rigorous scholastic principles, got the least amount of collective sleep -- five hours and 44 minutes.
Stockholm, where people are known to be active and love the outdoors despite its cold climate, topped the list for being the most active city, reporting an average of 8,876 steps per person per day.
On the opposite end, Sao Paulo logged the lowest average of steps per day at 6,254.
The city that was the earliest to nod off and earliest to wake was Brisbane, Australia -- a good sign if one is to believe the age old cliche that speaks to the benefits of "early to bed, early to rise."
Curiously, the opposite status, of being the latest to bed and latest to rise, also went to one city: Moscow.
In any case, Jawbone's data reveals that Australia is a great place to sleep, for the city of Melbourne logged the most overall sleep with a total average of just under seven hours per night.
An interactive graph comparing the cities of New York, Paris, Beijing, Moscow, Dubai, Tokyo and Madrid reveals the ultimate surprise: New York, the so-called city that never sleeps, was the first to hit the hay.
Jawbone's researchers compared their work to the "abstract brush strokes of a Rothko painting," noting that an untrained eye -- that is, an eye untrained to wearable tracker data -- would interpret its interactive chart as a painting.
Data was collected from users of the UP by Jawbone device, a wearable activity-tracking bracelet that logs data on sleep, steps taken, calories burned and nutritional information and presents it in a variety of permutations on its accompanying app.
