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Quantified Self Styles

March 13, 2015

Last year, over 320 Quantified Self events occurred across the globe. If spread evenly, six out of seven days of the week saw a QS meetup. This is a truly incredible amount of knowledge sharing occurring in our community. Although many QS meetings follow our typical “show&tell” format, with three to four talks about personal…

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QS15 Conference Preview: Jamie Williams on Tracking My Days

March 11, 2015

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 two days of inspiring talks, demos, and discussion with your fellow self-trackers and toolmakers, plus a third day dedicated to the Activate public expo. As…

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Better by Default: An Access Conversation with John Wilbanks

March 10, 2015

John Wilbanks is the Chief Commons Officer for Sage Bionetworks. You may not recognize John’s name or the name of his organization, but after today, you may want to commit it to memory. On March 9, 2014 Tim Cook introduced us to the idea of ResearchKit and then turned it over to Jeff Williams who described the new…

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Quantified Self and Apple's ResearchKit

March 9, 2015

Apple’s announcement of ResearchKit is strong evidence that Quantified Self practices are emerging as a major influence on medical research and other forms of knowledge making. Apple talked about how their new effort focused on opening up health research is designed to combat five main current issues: Limited Participation Small sample sizes limit our understanding…

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QS15 Sponsor Highlight: RescueTime

March 9, 2015

In the lead up to our QS15 Global Conference and Expo, we’re going to highlight our partners and sponsors that help us produce our events. If you’re interested in sponsoring our work or events, please get in touch.  Most of us spend a large percentage of our time at work. Next to sleeping, it’s likely the activity…

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Meetups This Week

March 8, 2015

We have eight great meetups occurring this week. In what must be a record, six will happen on Tuesday. Vienna will have talk from from Gregor Žavcer on cognitive science and experience sampling. At Munich’s meetup, they will have talks from Christian Margolus on how he used blood sugar readings to help him understand his hunger cravings and…

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What is in My Gut?

March 5, 2015

This past fall we learned about a unique study, conducted at Stanford University, designed to contribute to the understanding of the human microbiome. This study also has a component not common to academic research — data is being returned to the participants. Intrigued, I contacted the principle investigator, Les Dethlefson, to learn more. Ernesto: Tell me about…

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Gordon Bell: Every Beat of My Heart

March 2, 2015

Gordon Bell has been involved with self-tracking for over a decade. From his ground-breakign MyLifeBits project to his popular book on the possibilities of a fully digital life he is constantly thinking about new ways we can understand ourselves through the data we collect. We are always excited to see him at our QS events…

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Meetups This Week

March 1, 2015

There will be eight great Quantified Self meetups happening all over the world this week. The group in Stockholm will have show&tell talks on sleep tracking, using the Scanadu Scout and using personal data to identify cause and effect in one’s life. Our exemplary QSXX Boston group will be getting together as well. To learn…

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Greg Kroleski: Six Years of Tracking My Time

February 27, 2015

Greg Kroleski has been tracking his time for the past six years, starting when he was 20-years old. Using a spreadsheet he designed himself he collects how much time he spends in eight different categories: Survival, Labor, Social, Spiritual, Mind, Expression, Body, and Distraction. In this talk, presented at the San Francisco QS meetup group,…

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QS Access: Data Donation Part 2

February 25, 2015

In our Access Channel we’re trying to expose ideas, efforts, and insights about personal data access and it’s role in both generating personal and public insights. The last time we wrote about data donation we mentioned a few different projects that allowed you to collect and/or publish your self-tracking data for others to view and…

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QS15 Conference Preview: Julie Price on Long-term Weight Tracking

February 24, 2015

On June 18-20 we’ll be hosting the QS15 Conference & 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…

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Meetups This Week

February 22, 2015

This week will bring four fascinating Quantified Self meetups. St. Louis will have a “quantified romance”-themed meetup including a toolmaker talk with the creator of a service that helps with romantic decisions.  In Ashland, they will be getting together to discuss n=1 study designs. This is the same group that started the Individual Metabolic Research…

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Introducing iMeRG: The Individual Metabolic Research Group

February 19, 2015

Here at QS Labs we take great pride in supporting a worldwide network of meetup groups. From Bucharest to the Bay Area, we have over 100 groups meeting to discuss self-tracking, share experiences, and learn from each other. We wanted to highlight a new group, based in southern Oregon, that is using self-tracking to expand…

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Do It Yourself Diabetes

February 17, 2015

Dana Lewis and Scott Leibrand are the creators of the amazing “Do-It-Yourself-Pancreas-System,” also known by #DIYPS. We had a few question for them.