ECG data was collected using a Actiwave Cardio sensor. This attaches to the chest using standard surgical ECG stick on connectors, as you would have in a hospital ECG device. Recordings are typically about 40 hours long going from morning one day to the evening the next including one night’s readings in between. As well as the ECG readings the device also contains a three axis accelerometer.The raw format for these files is EDF+ an industry standard binary format. However to make the data easier to analyse for those without specialised software, it has also been converted to CSV text files using the edf2ascii utility. Typically EDF files and zipped text files are 40-70 Mbytes each.
meta information, one line per file, as noted most files are over two days, but there may be short periods at the beginning and end where the sensor is not attached. Occasionally also the sensor was dislodged and had to be replaced leading to an anomalous inactive period.
fields:
date – a date stamp in format YYYY_MM_DD
start_date – \ ___ date and time when recording starts
start_time – /
number_of_records – always 8947776 = approx 40 hours x 64Hz samples
url – dropbox url of zipped CSV text file
edf_url – dropbox url of raw EDF+ file
identical data in JSON format
Each zipped CSV text file has the following format:
Time – timestamp in seconds
electrode — ECG in microVolts range +/- 9860uV
X — accelerometer in m/2^2
Y — “” “” “” “”
Z — “” “” “” “”
Note that the accelerometer readings are blank every second line as they are only sampled at 32Hz.
For the full EDF+ files see the EDF+ Specification.
extract:
Time,1,2,3,4 0.000000,-2158.635648,0.101894,-0.101894,10.147408 0.015625,-4306.157876,,, 0.031250,-2203.674246,0.101894,-0.101894,9.961602 0.046875,4488.359476,,, 0.062500,4483.680141,0.101894,-0.101894,9.961602 0.078125,-4308.497544,,, 0.093750,-4304.110667,0.101894,-0.101894,10.147408 0.109375,4487.774559,,, 0.125000,4483.387683,0.101894,-0.101894,10.147408