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…
On June 18-20 we’ll be hosting the QS15 Conference & Activate Expo in San Francisco at the beautiful facilities at the Fort Mason Center. This will be a very special year with three days of inspiring talks, demos, and discussion with your fellow self-trackers and toolmakers. As we start to fill out our program we’ll be…
In our second episode of QS Radio we shake things up a bit. We start with a brief discussion by co-host Steven Jonas about his experiences using the SunSprite light tracker and what he’s been learning. Next up, we have a great Toolmaker Talk with Kevin Holesh, the creator of Moment for iOS. Moment is…
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…
Howard Look is the Founder and CEO of Tidepool, a non-profit, open source development organization dedicated to reducing the burden of type 1 diabetes by building a platform that can integrate all diabetes device data in a single location. Most importantly, he is the father of a daughter with type 1 diabetes. Howard understands the…
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…
Catha Mullen has a long history with tracking, primarily from her experience as an elite-level distance runner. In this talk, presented at the Bay Area QS Meetup, she describes how tracking and data analysis helped her understand and improve her financial health.
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…
In our first episode of QS Radio we hit the ground running with a great pair of interviews and some super interesting news and discussion about exciting self-tracking projects. In our show&tell segment, we hear from Shannon Conners, a self-tracking enthusiast who’s been learning amazing things from tracking her diet, exercise, and weight for over…
Anna Nicanorova is a data scientist. Starting in 2013 she started making an annual report, but what stuck by how difficult it was to access her own data she was collecting through different apps and services. Early this year she put together her 2014 annual report based on a few different tools and using If…
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…
On June 18-20 we’ll be hosting the QS15 Conference & Activate Expo in San Francisco at the beautiful Fort Mason Center. This will be a very special year with two days of inspiring talks, demos, and discussion with your fellow self-trackers and toolmakers, plus a third day dedicated to the Activate Exposition. As we start to fill…
Today, we are participating in the “Data and Innovation at the Climate-Health Nexus” panel hosted by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. When we’ve spoken to people about this meeting the reaction we tend to receive is, “What does Quantified Self have to do with climate change?” It’s a valid question, and…
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?…
Today we are excited and honored to announce that Christopher Snider has joined QS Labs as our Associate Editor. In the run up to our yearly Quantified Self Public Health Symposium, Christopher will be assisting our efforts to grow our QS Access editorial channel in support of our mission to explore the role of data…
