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Meetups This Week

September 14, 2015

Six QS meetups are occurring this week. London will mark an incredible five years of meetups! Congratulations to Adriana Lukas and her team. St. Louis will have a special data hack session, focusing on getting the raw data from their devices. Jamie Williams will show the iPython scripts that he uses for pulling data from…

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Meetups This Week

September 6, 2015

A great group of QS meetups are occurring this week. At the QSXX meetup in San Francisco, they will have a talk on tracking a hormone-related chronic illness. In Lille, the session will start with device demos, including O.Zen, a heart-rate variability game. Olivier Janin will give a talk reflecting on what he’s learned from…

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QS Europe Preview: Where does your time go?

September 4, 2015

Time is the finite resource that we all share. We share, too, the befuddlement in how it’s spent. It seems that we are equally terrible at remembering what happened in the past and estimating how long something will take in the future. Having worked in project management for years, Emmanuel Pont knows full well everything…

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QSEU15 Preview: Putting Physiological Signals into Pictures

September 2, 2015

Media artist Danielle Roberts (check out her Reverse Calendar), found her curiosity piqued by a scientific paper claiming that  the well-known calming benefits of being in nature can be achieved by merely looking at pictures of natural landscapes. At QS Europe 15, Danielle will present her “Virtual View” project, which combines image and sound for immersion in…

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Meetups This Week

August 30, 2015

As the summer ends in the northern hemisphere, the number of QS meetups is picking up and there are some great groups getting together this week. Amsterdam will have a combined meetup with Behavior Design AMS. They will have toolmaker talks from Kenkodo (tracking metabolism) and Fithacking.nl (fitness), as well as, a researcher talk from Marleen…

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Maggie Delano: Building Myself Back Up

August 25, 2015

Maggie Delano hit her head while helping a friend move. She was diagnosed with a concussion and, later, post-concussion syndrome. In order for her to heal, she had to give her brain a break from cognitively stimulating activities. In this show&tell talk, presented at the 2015 Quantified Self Conference, Maggie discusses how she tracked her progress…

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Meetups This Week

August 23, 2015

We have a trio of tremendous QS meetups occurring this week. In Portland, I will be giving a presentation on the best of the Quantified Self Global Conference in June. Los Angeles will feature toolmaker talks. And in Atlanta, they will be discussing their experiences with the Apple Watch, as well as, reviewing the recent…

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QSEU15 Preview: Morris Villarroel on Slowing Time with a Lifelog

August 21, 2015

The 2015 Quantified Self Europe Conference will commence in less than four weeks, bringing together the QS community to share what they’ve been learning with personal data. Anyone who engages in any sort of self-tracking discovers that the data collected is not a mere recording of some aspect of your life. Rather, engaging with and…

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Meetups This Week

August 16, 2015

We have two great Quantified Self meetups occurring this week. St. Louis will have talks on crowdsourcing clinical research and tracking for athletic performance. After Austin‘s show&tell talk on using eeg’s to improve everyday performance, they will have a roundtable discussion. To see when the next meetup in your area is, check the full list…

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Meetups This Week

August 9, 2015

There will be three Quantified Self meetups this week. Zürich will have a toolmaker talk from Boonea on taking a quantified approach to relationships and personal networks. To see when the next meetup in your area is, check the full list of the over 100 QS meetup groups in the right sidebar. Don’t see one near you?…

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Meetups This Week

August 3, 2015

Five Quantified Self meetups are getting together this week. Manchester will be talking about data dashboards and Berlin has a great slate of talks on blood glucose tracking, transitioning to a Colemak keyboard layout, and how to look for signals from one’s body. To see when the next meetup in your area is, check the…

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Why Quantified Self Show&Talks are Amazing

July 30, 2015

I have had the esteemed pleasure for the last couple of years of helping speakers at Quantified Self conferences put together their talks. It’s a lot of work for me, but more so for the speakers. At the QS15 Conference last month in San Francisco, I took the opportunity to not only express my appreciation…

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Meetups This Week

July 26, 2015

There are four Quantified Self meetups occurring this week. Highlights include St. Louis  giving a recap of the QS Global Conference that occurred last month in San Francisco. As well, the always excellent London meetup will be getting together. To see when the next meetup in your area is, check the full list of the over…

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Meetups This Week

July 19, 2015

There are three very interesting QS meetups occurring this week. Chicago’s event will be fitness focused, with talks on what it’s like to work out with a weight system that changes it’s resistance in real-time based on your performance and effort and learning from DXA body composition data. Shanghai will have a researcher talk from Preston Estep on using genetic…

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Steven Zhang: Concussions, Headaches and the Whole30 Elimination Diet

July 16, 2015

  At every conference, a synchronicity will occur where a few talks cover a similar, but previously unexplored topic. At QS15, we were surprised to see an increased discussion of concussions. It’s hard to know whether this is due to random chance or a glimmer of the zeitgeist, but we like to take note of…

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Mark Moschel: Parasites and Gut Repair

July 14, 2015

While traveling in Ecuador, Mark Moschel ate some ceviche from a street cart that he later found contained a parasite called giardia. Experiencing fatigue, light-headedness, and digestive issues, Mark used the Reporter app to track his symptoms and Ubiome to measure his gut flora to help him understand and combat the parasite. Though a trying experience,…

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Meetups This Week

July 12, 2015

Three Quantified Self meetup groups are getting together this week. Zürich will have two toolmaker talks from Manuel Heuer (dacadoo) and Lea von Bidder (Ava), as well as, hands-on demos of the Muse, Scanadu Scout, Sensoria Smart Socks and the HAPIfork. To see when the next meetup in your area is, check the full list of the over 100…

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Meetups This Week

July 6, 2015

After a brief break to focus on the QS15 conference, Meetups This Week is back. So many of our best talks at the conference were first done at a local meetup, so it’s with great pleasure that I get to highlight all of the great QS groups that are getting together around the world. Groups…