There are two new Quantified Self meetup comming up in Germany: On takes place on the 1st February in Munich. The other on the 7th February in Hamburg. Last month there was also another European country that had its QS Meeting: The Czech Republic.
Anyone who has presented their work at a Quantified Self conference will already know the amazing Ernesto Ramirez. Ernesto is a doctoral student at UC San Diego’s Center for Wireless and Population Health Systems, a leader of the San Diego QS Show&Tell meetup group, a regular blogger here, and a positive force inspiring people to…
After our amazing experience together last May at the first Quantified Self conference, some of the attendees who had come all the way from Holland asked for a European conference, so that some of the great contributors to the QS scene could participate more easily. Just six months later, that conference is happening. I’m amazed…
Since we started the Quantified Self in 2007, we’ve enjoyed watching the idea grow and spread. Recently, I decided to revise our FAQ about how to start a Quantified Self Show&Tell to take advantage of what we and others have learned from doing this many times over. I asked Show&Tell organizers around the world to…
The power of the Quantified Self community is in the individual stories of self-tracking and self-experimentation that QS’ers around the world are sharing with each other. With this post, I want to invite you, if you haven’t already, to share your story – what did you do? How did you do it? What did you…
Four new Quantified Self Show&Tell meetup groups have started up in the past few weeks, so we want to give them a warm welcome here! Dublin, Ireland – started by Mark Matthews and Ronan McDonnell Raleigh, North Carolina – started by George Saines Lousiville, Kentucky – started by Chris Hall and Joe Wheeler South Florida…
It’s an exciting day, brought to you by a team of dedicated QS’ers. We are hereby announcing the first Quantified Self Europe Conference, to be held November 26-27, 2011, in Amsterdam. Our first conference this past May in Mountain View was a success by however you’d like to measure it – people said it was…
This is one of the findings in the amazing Susannah Fox‘s recent report for Pew Internet, part of the Pew Research Center. The report is called The Social Life of Health Information, and has several interesting findings. Here is an excerpt: Carol Torgan, a health science strategist, points out that anyone who makes note of…
This is a first for us. At our Bay Area QS Show&Tell meetup this week (slides available here), we had so many wonderful folks donate and buy QS t-shirts that we decided to use the money to fund an exciting project on Kickstarter. It’s an open hardware project called Pulse Sensor, by Yury Gitman and…
By popular request, we have just launched a global QS forum at: http://forum.quantifiedself.com/ Gary, Dan Dascalescu, and I took some exciting topics from the conference and turned them into forum discussions, with expert moderators to help explore ideas and answer questions. You’ll find discussions on: – Apps & Tools, moderated by Dan Dascalescu – Data Ownership & Privacy,…
This post and instructions are no longer up to date. For a current how-to please visit the updated post. On February 11th FitBit released their API into the wild and let developers get to work. Since then there have been some very neat integrations. One of the best uses of the API it the open…
Emily Singer, a journalist with MIT’s Technology Review, has an extensive series of articles and interviews on “The Measured Life“. She was at the Quantified Self Conference a month ago, seems to have talked with everyone, and has since been writing up a storm. The July issue of the magazine has a cool cover, the…
Now that there are so many QS events happening around the world (July alone has eight events!), we decided to put together a global QS calendar to keep track of all of them. If you’re traveling, or have friends in other cities you’d like to tell about a meetup, you can now see all upcoming…
Five new Quantified Self Show&Tell meetup groups have started up since our recent conference, so we want to give them a warm welcome here! Tulsa, Oklahoma – started by Jim Meehan Portland, Oregon – started by Ioan Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – started by Theodore Wheeland Victoria, British Columbia – started by Rasool Edinburgh, Scotland – started…
For quantifying the self at the molecular level, we need nanotechnology. This weekend is Foresight@Google, a conference on the latest nanotech and what’s coming in the field. Highlights include Halycon Molecular on how they’re reading DNA base-by-base, including critical methylation patterns that other DNA reading methods miss. Rob Meagley will describe prospects for sensors that…
In 1981, Allen Neuringer wrote a paper in the journal Behaviorism, calling for self-experimentation. Consider it your weekend reading assignment, should you choose to accept it. Neuringer presents a fascinating history and philosophy of self-science, as well as his perspective on the importance of self-experimentation. There are even some early experimental graphs on needing less sleep…
I recently came across three contests relevant to the QS community, and wanted to pass them along. 1. data in sight: making the transparent visual This is a hands-on data visualization competition held June 25th and 26th, 2011, at the Adobe Systems, Inc. offices in San Francisco’s SoMa District. Open to coders, programmers, developers, designers, scientists,…
We are placing a bulk order of our new T-shirts that some of us were sporting at the conference, so if you’d like one, please order yours here! They are $18 including shipping, and were designed by Brian Scott of Boon Design.
Yes, it’s finally here. After months of preparation, and with an amazing list of people stepping up to give talks and lead sessions, the QS conference is ready to go. Join and follow the excitement here on the blog and on Twitter with the hashtag #qs2011. Let the fun begin!
Here’s a quick note from Xaq Rothman for all of you who live in DC: HacDC, DC’s hackerspace, will be hosting a QS Show & Tell this coming Sunday at 6pm. If you’re in the area, come see self-tracking presentations on topics including quitting cigarettes, GPS logging, and songwriting. For more about the presentations: http://www.hacdc.org/content/meet-quantified-self-presenters…
