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Meetups This Week

June 2, 2015

We have an incredible nine meetups getting together this week all over the world. If you are in the area for one of them, you have to check it out. If you have a self-tracking story to share, let the organizer know! To see when the next meetup in your area is, check the full…

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Meetups This Week

May 26, 2015

Four Quantified Self groups are having Show&Tell meetings this week. The wonderful Paul LaFontaine will be revitalizing the Denver scene with new meetups and will be giving a preview of his QS15 talk. In Indianopolis, Brad Pillow will share the results of his recent experimentation on the impact of resistant starch on blood glucose levels….

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Meetups This Week

May 17, 2015

Four Quantified Self meetup groups are getting together this week. Nashville will be having their very first meetup and we are very excited for them. It’s a great group out there in “Music City.” There will also be another first meeting, though it is not technically a Quantified Self Show & Tell group. At QS…

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Meetups This Week

May 10, 2015

Five Quantified Self groups are getting together this week. Singapore will focus on the future of “smart health.” Zürich will discus the use of accountability groups for reaching goals. Budapest will have a couple talks on using personal data for making decisions in a collaborative environment: Anna Naszádi of Misto will show how their tool can help to…

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Meetups This Week

May 3, 2015

Across the world, six Quantified Self meetups are getting together this week. Vienna will have two special guests. Friend of QS, Chris Dancy, will speak about what he’s learned from collecting personal data from 700 sensors and services. Christoph Fabienek will speak about data privacy and the internet. The QSXX group in San Francisco (more…

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Meetups This Week

April 26, 2015

Five exciting Quantified Self meetups are occurring this week. The second oldest QS group will be convening in New York. Be sure not to miss it if you live in the Big Apple. To see when the next meetup in your area is, check the full list of the over 100 QS meetup groups in…

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Meetups This Week

April 19, 2015

Six Quantified Self groups are getting together this week for show&tell talks. Copenhagen, in particular, has a jam-packed program with four talks on walking while working, food tracking, heart rate visualization and stress monitoring. To see when the next meetup in your area is, check the full list of the over 100 QS meetup groups in…

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Meetups This Week

April 12, 2015

We have a great collection of eight Quantified Self meetups getting together this week. Turin will be having their first ever meetup and will feature toolmaker/researcher talks by Alessandro Marcengo on specch.io, a personal data analysis tool and Massimo Zedda on Lifepitch, an emotional history tracker. They will also have talks by Amon Rapp on the current state of QS tools…

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Meetups This Week

April 6, 2015

There will be three Quantified Self groups getting together this week. If one of these are in your city, be sure not to miss it! 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

March 29, 2015

There will be two Quantified Self meetups getting together this week. Pittsburgh will have a couple show&tell talks from Matt Tornowske and Randy Sargent on the “Qualified Self” and tracking sleep apnea symptoms, respectively. To see when the next meetup in your area is, check the full list of the over 100 QS meetup groups…

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Meetups This Week

March 22, 2015

This week will see 8 Quantified Self meetups with jam-packed agendas. The QS family of meetup groups continues to expand with Bucharest having their very first Show&Tell meeting. There will be two meetups occurring in San Francisco this week. QSXX will have a show&tell talk from Valerie Lanard on quitting TV. QSXX meetups are for women or those who identify…

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Meetups This Week

March 15, 2015

There will be five Quantified Self meetups this week. If you live in the south of England, you won’t want to miss the meetup in London. They are always excellent. St. Louis will feature a discussion with Dr. James McCarter on fasting. McCarter will explain the science of ketosis and how to take a citizen-science approach to…

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Quantified Self Styles

March 13, 2015

Last year, over 320 Quantified Self events occurred across the globe. If spread evenly, six out of seven days of the week saw a QS meetup. This is a truly incredible amount of knowledge sharing occurring in our community. Although many QS meetings follow our typical “show&tell” format, with three to four talks about personal…

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Meetups This Week

March 8, 2015

We have eight great meetups occurring this week. In what must be a record, six will happen on Tuesday. Vienna will have talk from from Gregor Žavcer on cognitive science and experience sampling. At Munich’s meetup, they will have talks from Christian Margolus on how he used blood sugar readings to help him understand his hunger cravings and…

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Meetups This Week

March 1, 2015

There will be eight great Quantified Self meetups happening all over the world this week. The group in Stockholm will have show&tell talks on sleep tracking, using the Scanadu Scout and using personal data to identify cause and effect in one’s life. Our exemplary QSXX Boston group will be getting together as well. To learn…

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Meetups This Week

February 22, 2015

This week will bring four fascinating Quantified Self meetups. St. Louis will have a “quantified romance”-themed meetup including a toolmaker talk with the creator of a service that helps with romantic decisions.  In Ashland, they will be getting together to discuss n=1 study designs. This is the same group that started the Individual Metabolic Research…

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Meetups This Week

February 15, 2015

There will be six Quantified Self meetups occurring in two countries this week. Thessaloníki­ in Greece will be having their very first meetup. New York is a must attend event for they always have excellent talks. Chicago will have a toolmaker talk from the maker of an under-desk elliptical trainer that tracks usage, while southern Florida will have two meetups…

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Meetups This Week

February 8, 2015

This week will bring six Quantified Self meetups in four countries! In Cambridge, they will have a toolmaker talk for Emotion Sense, a mood app developed by the University of Cambridge. Zürich will have a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) session, where everyone will have some hands-on time with the QS tools in use by their…