The Quantified Self community organized itself around one key activity: sharing first person reports about our own discoveries using our own data. Why does it work so well?
Self-tracking. Self-experiment. N-of-1 methods. Single subject research. The kinds of self-research seen in the Quantified Self community are described by a thicket of labels. In a perspective article recently published in Frontiers in Computer Science, Gary Wolf and Martijn de Groot attempt to provide a clear definition and framework for research.
The Quantified Self community organized itself around one key activity: sharing first person reports about our own discoveries using our own data. Why does it work so well?