How Data Helped Me Acclimate to a Very High Altitude of 4,500m

A quick, practical approach on how data can be used to inform real-life decisions

Fouad Faraj
Towards Data Science
5 min readJan 5, 2022

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Photo by Anna Goncharova on Unsplash

Introduction

For work I was going to travel from Vancouver, Canada to Antamina mine, Peru with a 4 day stop at Huaraz, Peru to acclimate. The 4,500 m ascent involves nearly a 50% decrease in…

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Geological engineer with interests in geospatial data processing and numerical analysis for applications in the natural resource and environmental industries.