Tag: Assessment

At Sparta Science, we work with all types of organizations. From elite sports and conventional military to occupational and geriatric health. Since our earliest customers were professional and collegiate sports teams, it is not uncommon to hear objections about using the vertical jump as an assessment for non-athletes or even non-jumping athletes. Before dismissing the […]

Using a force plate for practical collection of objective data  Human movement is an extremely complex symphony of coordination between different systems of the human body. Because of this, it has become commonplace to assess movement in discrete parts to attempt to explain the function (or dysfunction) of the whole. To give a simple example, […]

At a glance, balance can seem like a rudimentary test. We don’t see balance glamorized on social media like a 47.1” vertical jump where the subject seems to levitate momentarily. But, testing balance on a force plate provides us with an opportunity to collect more data for longer periods of time than a test like […]

As we get more granular with data collected, it is critical to evaluate the reliability of each of the different measures we are hoping to use. If the data we are collecting isn’t reliable, there is no tool, software, or algorithm we can use to make it reliable; we are simply collecting bad data. The […]

As the human performance industry advances, technologies, new and old, continue to try to innovate and differentiate themselves for your dollars. Almost every technology company these days, including Sparta Science, is collecting data and will lean on their “data-driven insights” as a way to pique your interest before going on to tell you all about […]

Force Plate Machine Learning™ allows everyone to be informed…now Many of the customers in our community have had or used force plates for many years before deciding to integrate Sparta’s Movement Health Platform. And every conversation begins with the same simple, but crucial moments of education.  As an example, when talking with a potential military […]

Free up your time, with technology, to protect your people In the health & human performance world, it is very common to hear how certain technologies may not be needed because the practitioner or organization can already do it themselves. When sharing our solution with practitioners or scientists we often hear “we already do that […]

When to use technological knowledge vs human knowledge to achieve the mission Readiness is a term used to describe many scenarios for an organization, and it has become a buzzword for both military objectives, as well as technologies aimed at individual health and sports performance. The Department of Defense for example defines the term “readiness” […]

The roles of normative, raw, and time-series force plate data. Which type is most meaningful for you? We are in an era of data explosion. More information is being created now than ever before, which is both daunting and exciting. It is almost like a hospital’s emergency room on a Friday night, incoming situations from […]

How Software Fits Within Human Centric Organizations for True Innovation A common sound byte often referenced about the health technology explosion over the last ten years is that an astonishing 90% of the world’s data has been created in the last two years alone. Technology has made it easier to collect data due to less […]

Individuals are Adopting New Technologies, With or Without Their Organizations. With the new year underway, many folks are coming off of time away from their everyday, focusing on new habits; fresh goals to tackle for the quarter and/or year. Oftentimes these goals are substantial and require smaller, more frequent habit changes to achieve. The smallest […]

A definition for both and consideration for when to use Most human performance & health environments have an interesting dichotomy of what is actionable versus what is interesting. So the debate of simple versus raw data has risen to be a significant contention within the realm of performance and medicine. What makes data actionable? Actionable […]