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Meetups This Week

November 13, 2017

This week there are two QS meetups happening. On Thursday, Gary Wolf will be hosting a somewhat unusual meetup at the National Archive in The Hague. Self trackers and archivists will get together to discuss current trends and issues around personal data and quantified self, including archiving methods and data privacy.  The Hong Kong meetup…

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Meetups This Week

October 16, 2017

Two meetups this week are happening on opposite sides of the U.S. If you’re interested in what happened at our conference in Amsterdam – or alternately what one man’s physiological response to seeing a bear was – then the Portland meetup is the place to be. If you are on the East Coast, the D.C….

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Meetups This Week

September 25, 2017

We have three meetups happening this Wednesday! If you’re in Hong Kong, check out an intro to self-tracking. If you’re in London, book a spot quickly (there are only two left) and head to Camden for QS talks and a walk to the pub.

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Meetups This Week

September 4, 2017

We have three meetups in the States this week. Our Bay Area meetup is honored to be participating in the Davies Forum at The University of San Francisco. The evening will consist of a special presentation from Gary Wolf (co-founder of Quantified Self), self tracking presentations, tool demonstrations, and a conversation about the Quantified Self. The Austin…

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Meetups This Week

August 14, 2017

Aug 14, 2017: This week we have three meetups spanning three continents. Hong Kong’s 6th meetup will share the results of a month-long self-tracking project. Hamburg will be having it’s 10th meetup with talks on meditation and fitness tracking. In Denver, a Zen master and professional cyclist will be among the attendees.

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Meetup This Week in Cambridge, United Kingdom

August 7, 2017

This Wednesday the Cambridge QS Group is hosting a meetup on making exercise more fun. If you want to see how multiplayer gaming, science museums, and office furniture hacks can help you get more movement into your day, this is a meetup for you. Wednesday, August 9 Cambridge, England To see when the next meetup…

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Meetups This Week

July 31, 2017

Jul 31, 2017: We have meetups on both sides of the pond this week. Manchester and London will have a great program of Show&Tell talks, and Austin will be talking about accountability groups and fitness.

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Quantified Self Meetup in Prague This Week

April 25, 2017

The Quantified Self group in Prague will be having a meetup this week. The group’s organizer Jan Pavuk, will distill what he learned at the recent BNA Festival of Neuroscience into practical methods and tools that can be used for people’s QS practice. Thursday, April 27 Prague, Czech Republic QS17 To experience more of this…

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Meetup Today in Portland

April 11, 2017

There is a Quantified Self meetup happening in Portland tonight. Mark Leavitt will present an update to his Health E-Seat project (his office chair is a recliner/recumbent bike hybrid). It will feature some in-progress projects on tracking intentions and recording mood and music. The night will end with a talk about my attempt to apply…

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Meetups This Week in Dublin and Austin

April 3, 2017

Dublin recently put on a fantastic meeting with a couple of great talks about gut health (which you can watch). They are back at it again, with three speakers on bio-markers related to nutrition. Austin’s theme is nutrition as well, with the main talk on a person’s data collected while losing 95 pounds on a…

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Meetups in Denver and Prague This Week

March 27, 2017

The Quantified Self group in Prague will be getting together for a fascinating discussion about Hans Selye‘s work on stress and it how to apply it to one’s life.  Denver will be getting together to explore the concept of flow. Monday, March 27 Denver, Colorado Tuesday, March 28 Prague, Czech Republic  

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Meetups This Week in Washington D.C. and Copenhagen

March 20, 2017

Copenhagen has an amazing slate of presentations lined up for their Quantified Self meetup this week. Katarzyna Wac will speak about what she’s learned from using a continuous glucose monitor (there’s an interesting discussion on this topic going on in the QS forum).  Thomas Blomseth Christiansen will talk about what he tracked while training for…

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Upcoming Meetups in Colorado Springs, Bay Area, New York, and London

March 6, 2017

There are a great set of Quantified Self meetups getting together in the upcoming weeks. There will be a discussion in Colorado Springs on designing N=1 experiments. The Bay Area meetup will feature talks on how the Apple Watch’s fitness goals made one person less active and how another used time tracking to evaluate whether his time…

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Dispatch from QS Dublin: Results from a QS Community Survey

February 28, 2017

Today, we have a guest post from Justin Lawler, an organizer for the active and excellent Quantified Self group in Dublin, about a recent meetup. If you are a QS organizer, feel free to contact me about writing a recap of one of your events. -Steven Recently, the Dublin Quantified Self meetup group gathered at the…

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Meetups This Week

February 27, 2017

A great group of Quantified Self meetups are occurring this week. The group in Hamburg will have their meeting in conjunction with Social Media Week. The group in Dublin will be focusing on gut health, with a talk on stool analysis and another on gut hormones. Austin will welcome Dr. Bruce  Meleski to speak about…

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Meetups This Week in Switzerland and Ireland

January 8, 2017

It’s 2017 and we’re looking forward to a new year of fun and informative Quantified Self meetups. This week brings the first of the bunch with Zürich and Dublin.  Zürich‘s meeting will feature a presentation on the current and future impact of the Quantified Self movement on Swiss society. Dublin will feature great talks on how to…

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Meetups This Week

October 4, 2016

We have three great Quantified Self Meetups occurring this week. Seattle’s talk topics include failing, music listening habits, and personal analytics. Bogotá will be discussing productivity tracking. And the Tokyo group will allow everyone to give a short 3-5 min Show&Tell on what they’ve been working on. To see when the next meetup in your…

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Meetups This Week

September 5, 2016

I haven’t been doing these for awhile, but that does not mean that Quantified Self meetups have not been occurring. Far from it. If you are in the Washington D.C. area, there is a meetup on Friday, September 9th with presentations on using data to personalize one’s fitness regimen and how to use heart rate…