Category: QS17

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Doing Meetings Differently

May 15, 2017

Today we’re publishing the program for QS17: The Quantified Self Conference, which will be held this year at Casa 400 in Amsterdam on June 17 and 18. Looking over the 60+ sessions, I’m struck again by how different our meetings are. We do some things that are contrary to common sense, and we keep doing…

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QS17 Preview: My Life as a Comic Strip

May 12, 2017

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.

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QS17 Preview: Data-Based Sculpture

May 10, 2017

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.

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QS17 Preview: Can a Picture Be Worth a Thousand Numbers?

May 5, 2017

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.

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QS17 Conference Program!

March 21, 2017

We aren’t ready yet. But we can’t resist giving an advance look. This year’s QS conference will be in Amsterdam on June 17/18, 2017. QS17 is a “carefully curated unconference,” which means his means that all of the sessions are proposed by our attendees. We spend about six months before the conference starts getting in touch…