A metaphoric trajectory data warehouse for Olympic athlete follow-up

  • Authors:
  • Fabio Porto;Ana Maria de C. Moura;Frederico C. da Silva;Adriana Bassini;Daniele C. Palazzi;Maira Poltosi;Luis Eduardo Viveiros de Castro;L. C. Cameron

  • Affiliations:
  • Extreme Data Lab (DEXL Lab), National Laboratory of Scientific Computing (LNCC), Petrópolis, RJ Brazil;Extreme Data Lab (DEXL Lab), National Laboratory of Scientific Computing (LNCC), Petrópolis, RJ Brazil;Extreme Data Lab (DEXL Lab), National Laboratory of Scientific Computing (LNCC), Petrópolis, RJ Brazil;Laboratory of Biochemistry of Proteins, Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brazil;Extreme Data Lab (DEXL Lab), National Laboratory of Scientific Computing (LNCC), Petrópolis, RJ Brazil;Extreme Data Lab (DEXL Lab), National Laboratory of Scientific Computing (LNCC), Petrópolis, RJ Brazil;Brazilian Olympic Committee (BOC), Rio de Janeiro, RJBrazil and Laboratory of Biochemistry of Proteins, Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brazil;Laboratory of Biochemistry of Proteins, Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brazil

  • Venue:
  • Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Sport science is a research discipline that aims to understand exercise and apply scientific methods in support of increasing an athlete's performance. In this paper, we present initial results on modeling, managing and analyzing an athlete's data gathered by sport scientists. An Olympic data warehouse is designed initially to support the monitoring of an athlete's biochemical data. A trajectory data model is extended to represent the athlete's measurements along his/her training states, referred to here as metaphoric trajectories. Furthermore, a data warehouse for metaphoric trajectories is designed and two analysis approaches — a relational and a multidimensional one — are evaluated. We compare both approaches and discuss their benefits to the athlete's follow-up analyses applied by sport scientists. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.