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CGM Show&Tell June 13 2023

June 13, 2023

This page is for notes from the QS Show&Tell of June 23, 2023. You can continue the discussion here: QS Forum Thread About the CGM Show&Tell Talks Zoom recording of the full session is here: QS Show&Tell Talks 6.13.23 You can view slides and find out more about the presenters below. Sara Riggare: Moderator Gary…

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Astronauts

February 23, 2023

We The Scientists, a new book by Amy Dockser Marcus, tells the story of a group of families who force research attention on a rare disease

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Anne Wright & Personal Science

April 14, 2022

This animation summarizes Anne Wright’s description of how a person coping with chronic health issues progresses through the process of self-research. Click through to learn how to get early access to our book, “Personal Science: Learning to Observe.”

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2nd Annual Keating Memorial Show&Tell Talks

July 22, 2021

You’re invited to attend the 2nd Annual Steven Keating Memorial Self-Research Talks. This ninety minute online meeting will present 4 first person self-research talks with discussion and Q&A. Time: August 12, 2021, 10:00 am Pacific Time (US and Canada)/19:00 CDT (Europe) This meeting will take place online in Zoom. We’ll have our regular show&tell format…

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Self-Registration: A person-centered approach to recording symptoms, observations, and outcomes.

August 11, 2020

If we want to know about typical and atypical symptoms of COVID-19, why wait until people show up at the doctors’ office or emergency room and then ask them to tell us: When did you first feel sick? It’s reasonable to want to build on top of our everyday tools, and track the development of the disease as it occurs. I want to underline what tends to be forgotten in our product-obsessed culture: these tools are not simply measurement instruments and wearables; they include the social and cognitive tools individuals are using to understand and manage their own health.

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A Stage-Based Model of Personal Informatics Systems

July 3, 2020

In 2010 Ian Li, Anind Dey, and Jodi Forlizzi published a prescient paper called “A Stage-Based Model of Personal Informatics Systems” based on interviews in the Quantified Self community. It was a prescient description of an emerging practice.

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QS Show & Tell — June 16 2020

June 16, 2020

Thank you to everybody who came and presented! This is a list of links and resources that may be helpful if are interested in the projects presented tonight. General Resources Intro Slides: QS Show&Tell Welcome June 16 2020 Open Humans: openhumans.org Quantified Flu: quantifiedflu.org Quantified Self Forum: forum.quantifiedself.com Presenter Links Bob Troia: Quantified Bob Mad…

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Design and Implementation of Participant-Led Research

September 3, 2019

We’ve been organizing small group projects that show how collaboration can make individual projects easier. We published a white paper documenting the design and implementation of our “Bloodtesters” participant-led research (PLR), hoping it will be useful to others who follow in our footsteps.

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Help us test the new QS Website

March 28, 2019

Thank you for exploring the new website for the QS community. You are part of a “work in progress” and all comment is welcome and useful.  We have a list of small things to fix and a list of bigger improvements to make in the months ahead, but even if you think we already know about the issues you notice, go ahead and mention them anyway. You might have seen something new!

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An N-of-1 experiment helps a physician identify the trigger of painful swallowing.

March 25, 2019

Dr. Alexander Smith found the trigger of his throat pain by eliminating a likely culprit from his diet: dairy. He noted that the pain disappeared, and then reintroducing the offending food and noticing that the pain came back. This simple protocol substituted for a much more difficult process that is typically recommended, saving him a lot of time, stress, and money.

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What did you learn?

March 20, 2019

We’ve posted more than thirty new Show&Tell videos from our conference in Portland, including Professor Allen Neuringer’s remarkable opening talk about what he’s learned from thirty years of doing and teaching self-experimentation.

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The Human Right to Science

March 20, 2019

Over the last year, we’ve been working on the launch of a new nonprofit organization called Article 27, whose mission is to advance the human right to participate in science. Inspired by the achievements of the Quantified Self community, we want to do what we can to help everybody trying to learn about themselves using empirical methods.

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Three Wishes From Exactly Ten Years Ago

October 23, 2018

Exactly ten years ago, at an early Quantified Self meetup, Joe Betts-La Croix expressed “three wishes” for tools to make data collection for self-tracking easier. Joe asked for: A simple database that would accept data inputs from anybody using fairly simple and adaptable formats (for instance .xml) and just hold it there, eventually allowing other…

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QS18: Thank You!

September 24, 2018

The Quantified Self Conference was held on September 22nd and 23rd in Portland, Oregon. Over the two days of the conference we had over eighty talks, presentations, and breakout discussions about self-tracking, everyday science, and “self-knowledge through numbers.”  Over the next few weeks we will be posting videos, slides and notes, but for now let us…

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The Personal Data Exploratory On Open Humans

August 30, 2018

In May we released the Personal Data Notebooks with Open Humans. These interactive documents – which bring together text, images and code – are designed to easily access an individual’s own personal data. At the launch of the Personal Data Notebooks we invited the Open Humans and Quantified Self community to contribute their own personal…

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Whitney E. Boesel: Cholesterol Variability: Hours, Days, And My Ovulatory Cycle (Part II)

August 15, 2018

After conceiving a beautiful baby girl, Whitney E. Boesel participated in the Bloodtester’s Project – a group of self-trackers conducting their own experiments to better understand their cholesterol together. After having her baby, Whitney learned that her cholesterol was unusually high and she became curious to understand what the cause was. She presented her findings, Cholesterol Variability: Hours, Days,…