If you have data, you probably want to analyze it. Visual Analytics is a hot topic these days – just look at the number of data visualization job posts on the FlowingData site. Honing your visualization skills doesn’t have to be expensive. Middlesex University in London is hosting a Visual Analytics Summer School (Camp) from…
A post commemorating the first 600 days since the kickoff Quantified Self meetup.
Zeo co-founder Ben Rubin spoke at the last Bay Area QS Show&Tell at Stanford University. Click on the video below to hear his thoughts about measuring sleep and the future of Zeo. Ben Rubin on Zeo and sleep measurement from Kevin Kelly on Vimeo.
Can your cell phone replace your therapist, or make cognitive behavior therapy more accessible to a wider audience? Margaret Morris of the Digital Health Group at Intel sent in an article that addresses this question, published today in the Journal of Medical Internet Research. Mobile Therapy: Case Study Evaluations of a Cell Phone Application for…
Ramesh Rao, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCSD, discusses his findings on heart rate and meditation.
Ian Li of PersonalInformatics.org sent in this evolving collection of QS-related articles: Many of you requested a list of articles related to personal informatics (e.g., self-tracking, visualization, self-knowledge). You can find a list of articles at http://personalinformatics.org/lab/articles For a full list of articles, visit http://www.citeulike.org/group/13347 You can participate in adding to the list by joining…
A poem on the unseen struggles between self-tracking and self-worth.
Dan Meyer’s 2009 Annual Report from Dan Meyer on Vimeo. High school math teacher Dan Meyer put together this fast-paced, compelling look at his year in numbers. Thanks to David Rosenman of Mayo Clinic for sending this in!
Do you want to be more creative? Justin Wehr does, and he sent in this question for the QS advisory board. ———- Name: Justin Wehr Purpose: My objective is to measure creative thoughts so I can figure out how to maximize them. Variables tracked: I have some variables related to this, but not enough. For…
Non Invasive Health Monitoring with mHealth View more documents from Bart Collet. Is health going mobile? It certainly seems so. Belgian blogger Bart Collet posted this fantastic compilation of tools and services for mobile health. Many of the companies in this presentation I hadn’t ever heard of before, which goes to show how quickly this…
If you make a change to your daily routine or try a new medication, how do you know if it is working? This was the question Bard sent in for the QS Scientific Advisory Board. His challenge was met by Neil Rubens, Teresa Lunt and David Goldberg. Read Bard’s question and their answers below. And if…
The Winter issue of h+ Magazine is available for download now. It includes the article I wrote about self-tracking, with five Quantified Self show-and-tell projects profiled. The editors decided against my original title (Self-Tracking: The Next Generation), but I do think the Quantified Life is worth living. Don’t you?
Jeremy Johnson sent in this question for the illustrious QS Scientific Advisory Board, so we set about finding an answer for him. Gordon Bell and Seth Roberts responded with lightning speed! Jeremy’s question and their answers are below. If you have a question about your self-tracking that you’d like some help with, let me know….
Do you need help with your self-tracking data analysis? Is there a specific problem or burning question about your experiment design that you’d love some guidance on? Gary and I are proposing an idea to help – read on for details! We’ve gathered an amazing Quantified Self Scientific Advisory Board to be part of our…
I recently came across Mikael Huss’ Follow the Data blog, which reports on data-driven trends in reality mining, self-tracking, and personalized medicine. In a recent post, Mikael talks about three bits of self-tracking news that are sure to create tingles up the spines of Quantified Self readers: 1. FitBit shipsAt long last! FitBit, the accelerometer…
The Mayo Clinic held their Transforming Healthcare Symposium last week in Rochester, MN. On display were the latest innovations they are brewing up in their SPARC Innovation Lab, like real-time, on-screen specialist consultation when you go to visit your primary care doctor. A stellar lineup of speakers from Intel’s Craig Barrett to IDEO’s Tim Brown…
For us self-trackers, data can pile up faster than we know what to do with it. Deriving meaning from the numbers we collect is a challenge I hear over and over at every Quantified Self gathering. Here’s a secret: visualizing your data is a powerful tool for discovering the treasured meaning you seek. The classic…
Scott Harden, of The Blogging Rotagonist, has created a cheap, functional DIY ECG machine that you can build at home for $1 worth of parts. He has circuit diagrams, various plots of his data, and the Python code he used for his project in this detailed blog post, along with videos like the one below….
The US Department of Homeland Security has invented a Star Trek-like tricorder. Called the Standoff Patient Triage Tool (SPTT), it can measure pulse, body temperature, and respiration from up to 40 feet away. The obvious application is for emergency response teams, but why not have a tricorder stationed conveniently in your bedroom and office to…
A survey from Ian Li, a PhD student studying personal informatics at Carnegie Mellon University, asking for insight to guide his research project looking into the general challenges of personal informatics.
