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Forget Normal: A QS + InsideTracker Challenge

May 22, 2015

Most people think of blood tests as medical procedures ordered by a doctor, but in the Quantified Self community we’ve seen many fascinating self-experiments using biomarker panels to answer personal questions about sleep, stress, mood, exercise, and more. Thanks to our long time friends and QS sponsors InsideTracker, we’re inviting you to take part in…

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Tracking Fight or Flight at the Office

May 20, 2015

Today’s guest post comes to us from our longtime friend and QS community member, Paul LaFontaine. Paul will be joining us at the QS15 Conference & Expo to share his expertise on tracking and making sense of heart rate variability. Read below, and then join us on June 18th through the 20th for three amazing…

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Quantifying Family Caregiving

May 18, 2015

Today’s post comes to us from our longtime friends and collaborators, Rajiv Mehta and Dawn Nafus. Read below to find out about an exciting new project they’re starting and a great Breakout Discussion they have planned for our QS15 Conference What would it look like to take a “QS approach” to a major social and…

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Meetups This Week

May 17, 2015

Four Quantified Self meetup groups are getting together this week. Nashville will be having their very first meetup and we are very excited for them. It’s a great group out there in “Music City.” There will also be another first meeting, though it is not technically a Quantified Self Show & Tell group. At QS…

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Announcing the QS15 Expo

May 15, 2015

On June 20th, we are hosting the first of its kind Quantified Self Expo at the beautiful Fort Mason Center. We’re excited to bring toolmakers from all over the world to showcase their devices and apps. To learn from leading users and experts through hands-on workshops and how-to sessions. And to engage with the ideas…

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QS15 Conference Program Preview

May 13, 2015

One June 18-20 we will be hosting our seventh Quantified Self Conference. The 2015 QS Conference and Exposition is going to be unprecedented gathering of users and makers of self-tracking tools. Thanks to the remarkable creativity and generosity of people coming from around the world to share their knowledge, we’re going to explore a remarkable…

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Meetups This Week

May 10, 2015

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…

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QS Radio: Episode #2

May 4, 2015

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…

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Meetups This Week

May 3, 2015

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…

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Diabetes Data For All

May 1, 2015

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…

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Meetups This Week

April 26, 2015

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…

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Catha Mullen: Tracking My Financial Health

April 23, 2015

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.

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Meetups This Week

April 19, 2015

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…

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QS Radio Episode #1

April 18, 2015

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…

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Anna Nicanorova: My Year in Numbers

April 14, 2015

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…