A persistent theme at QS17 was how self-tracking can help those with chronic conditions spot associations between symptoms and lifestyle that a clinician might not have time to uncover. In this Show & Tell, Justin Lawler talks about his experience with early onset osteoporosis and the several metrics he tracks to help manage and understand his condition.
I was thrilled to have the chance to do a Show&Tell talk about tracking my ovulatory cycle via minute-by-minute body temperature during the final plenary session at QS17 Conference. It’s an ongoing project that explores what high-temporal-resolution body temperature can help us learn about our reproductive state. Daily body temperature readings are already used to…
At QS17 Amsterdam, Robin Weis presented the opening Show & Tell on her self-tracking project examining a very personal metric in her life: crying. Robin uses the data-driven spirit of QS to navigate her emotions and piece together insights on personal discovery.
Kyrill Potapov wanted to design a system that didn’t just track his productivity, but motivated him through personal growth. This led him to design a project that appealed to his altruism while incentivizing productive and satisfying behavior. At QS17, Kyrill’s talk will explain how he uses the productivity output of RescueTime to power the light bulb keeping his house plant “Pip” alive.
While the terms ”dashboard” and ”machinery” may bring to mind the tidy and separable systems operating within a car, it’s the crossed wires of human neurophysiology that will be the subject of this conference preview. Dr. Tara Thiagarajan, founder of Sapien Labs, brings demonstrates how she has captured her ‘human music‘ by looking at interactions between her sleep, diet, water intake, and brain activity.
At QS17, “game alchemist” Ellis Bartholomeus will share her quantification of one of the inevitable and unpredictable outcomes of her study of play: scars. Her talk will explore the narrative scars tell us about our bodies and our activities—from fun childhood games to recovery from car accidents.
At QS17, Sara Riggare will share the insights health tracking has allowed her to glean from decades of experience with Parkinson’s.
At QS17, Justin Lawler will share how he uses several biomarkers, including his microbiome and liver metabolites, to manage factors contributing to his osteoporosis.
For Matt Manhattan, what started as an effort to keep track of his electronics turned into a practice spanning his entire material life. Taking inventory of his all possessions ultimately changed the way he thought about his purchases and ended up saving him a substantial amount of money. At QS17, Matt will share what he learned by framing decisions to make new purchases in the context of his past purchases.
At QS17 Amsterdam, Whitney Erin Boesel shares her experience tracking anti-mullerian hormone (AMH) levels, currently considered the “Gold Standard” of women’s fertility, and her successful pregnancy demonstrating the limitations of this fertility metric.
David de Souza is tracking 35 metrics on what he considers the most important areas of his life. His streamlined workflow allows him to record everything from sleep, weight and food intake to productivity, yoga and meditation. At QS17, David will share his dashboard and the correlations he’s drawn between diverse aspects of his behavior.
Could a personalized comic strip change the way you see your data? At QS17, Andreas Schreiber, founder of PyData Cologne and the Cologne QS Meetup, will present his Quantified Self comic strips, a technique for making self-tracking easier and more fun.
At QS17, QS Amsterdam meetup co-organizer Joost Plattel will share insights gathered from this project examining his phone use habits.
At QS17, Stephen Cartwright, associate director at the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will share the amazing landscape sculptures he has created from self-tracking data.
Laila has been tracking her weight for a few years, and more recently she began tracking other people’s weight and physical variation through her company, Fitnescity. In this video, she talks about her experiment with 3D body models, which is a relatively new way of representing and tracking the human body.
At QS17, “Psychedelics Biohacker” Janet Lai Chang will share the results of over a year’s worth of psilocybin microdosing on her mood, empathy and social interactions.
For the past eight months I’ve been tracking my temperature every minute using small, wireless sensors. I work in a lab that recently showed minute-by-minute body temperature can tell you fascinating things about female physiology, at least in mice. Using temperature, we can tell what day a mouse will ovulate, whether or not it will become pregnant within…
