Author: Azure Grant

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QS18 Preview: Map Your Ovulatory Cycle with Continuous Body Temperature

September 9, 2018

  Surprisingly little of the attention and funding turned to personalized, predictive, preventative medicine has focused on the female reproductive system: pregnancy onset cannot be quickly identified, menopause onset and trajectory remain entirely mysterious, and adverse reactions to tools like hormonal birth control are difficult to anticipate. Importantly, there are no automated, cheap, high-accuracy methods…

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Meetups This Week

November 13, 2017

This week there are two QS meetups happening. On Thursday, Gary Wolf will be hosting a somewhat unusual meetup at the National Archive in The Hague. Self trackers and archivists will get together to discuss current trends and issues around personal data and quantified self, including archiving methods and data privacy.  The Hong Kong meetup…

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Quantified Self Guide to Tracking Cholesterol and Triglycerides

November 8, 2017

What is a QS guide? The purpose of a QS guide is to make it easy for you to start tracking a new metric. Searching for the right device, head-scratching over how to use the thing, and figuring out what experiment to try first can be a huge time sink. Our goal is to offer…

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Meetups This Week

October 16, 2017

Two meetups this week are happening on opposite sides of the U.S. If you’re interested in what happened at our conference in Amsterdam – or alternately what one man’s physiological response to seeing a bear was – then the Portland meetup is the place to be. If you are on the East Coast, the D.C….

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Meetups This Week

October 2, 2017

Oct 2, 2017: Three meetups this week featuring Show&Tell talks, and Manchester hosts a fitness & diabetes risk assessment.

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Thomas Blomseth Christiansen: Over-Instrumented Running

September 29, 2017

After hitting the wall midway through a marathon, Thomas Blomseth Christiansen turned to instrumentation. Along with coding his own negative split plan generator, his project evolved to include an olympic swimming coach, many new devices, a metronome – and ultimately mastery of the art of pacing.

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Mark Moschel: Blood Ketones During Regular Fasting

September 26, 2017

Mark Moschel shares his experience with the ketogenic diet, including his insights into the correlation between perceived energy levels to blood ketone levels, the inverse relationship between ketones and glucose, and the ceiling effect of too-high ketones.

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Meetups This Week

September 25, 2017

We have three meetups happening this Wednesday! If you’re in Hong Kong, check out an intro to self-tracking. If you’re in London, book a spot quickly (there are only two left) and head to Camden for QS talks and a walk to the pub.

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Jakob Eg Larsen: Tracking Sleep and Resting Heart Rate

September 6, 2017

Jakob Eg Larsen has tracked his sleep and resting heart rate (RHR) for the past four years. His 7 minute talk is far better watched than read about: it’s a great illustration of data validation, longitudinal tracking, and data assisted self-awareness. Briefly, by tracking his RHR over a long period of time, Jakob has developed…

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Cantor Soule-Reeves: Fight For Your Right to Recess

September 5, 2017

It rains a lot in Portland, Oregon. And if you’re 8 years old like Cantor, recess gets cancelled a lot. But unlike most 8-year-olds, Cantor is doing something about that. By tracking his steps, he’s able to show that every cancelled recess takes about 600 steps out of his day. Compared to his average of…

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Meetups This Week

September 4, 2017

We have three meetups in the States this week. Our Bay Area meetup is honored to be participating in the Davies Forum at The University of San Francisco. The evening will consist of a special presentation from Gary Wolf (co-founder of Quantified Self), self tracking presentations, tool demonstrations, and a conversation about the Quantified Self. The Austin…

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Announcing Blood Testers: A Collaborative QS Project

August 23, 2017

Quantified Self announces a collaborative project for self-testing blood lipids: “Blood Testers.” The project’s long-term goal is to advance progress in self-directed research by better understanding what makes these types of projects succeed or fail. By working with a diverse group of participants, QS hopes a create an example of discovery that is informed by ‘expert’ individuals, highly participatory, and open access.

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New QS Devices

August 15, 2017

While a student at UC Berkeley, I was awed by the miniaturized devices created in the engineering department for neuroscientists. Eventually, these devices will enable entirely new kinds of Quantified Self projects. Here are three especially promising projects I came across while studying for my degree in neurobiology.

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Meetups This Week

August 14, 2017

Aug 14, 2017: This week we have three meetups spanning three continents. Hong Kong’s 6th meetup will share the results of a month-long self-tracking project. Hamburg will be having it’s 10th meetup with talks on meditation and fitness tracking. In Denver, a Zen master and professional cyclist will be among the attendees.

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Is My Data Valid?

August 8, 2017

Helpful tips on data validation from a Quantified Self project for home lipid testing looking into the accuracy of the CardioChek® Plus from PTS diagnostics.

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Meetup This Week in Cambridge, United Kingdom

August 7, 2017

This Wednesday the Cambridge QS Group is hosting a meetup on making exercise more fun. If you want to see how multiplayer gaming, science museums, and office furniture hacks can help you get more movement into your day, this is a meetup for you. Wednesday, August 9 Cambridge, England To see when the next meetup…

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QS17 Highlight: My Scars by Ellis Bartholomeus

August 4, 2017

Ellis Bartholomeus gave a talk at QS17 that is a definite “must watch.” We all accumulate physical scars throughout our lives. My own history consists of scrapes from trees, kitchen burns and a misadventure with liquid nitrogen. Ellis has taken a quantitative and thoughtful look at the form and meaning of her scars. At left, is…

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Meetups This Week

July 31, 2017

Jul 31, 2017: We have meetups on both sides of the pond this week. Manchester and London will have a great program of Show&Tell talks, and Austin will be talking about accountability groups and fitness.