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David El Achkar — How Six Months of Tracking Everything Increased my Awareness
Caspar Addyman — Tracking your brain on booze, Boozerlyzer
Shamay Agaron — Tracking Breathing To Control My Focus
Crt Ahlin — A Million Heartbeats
David Albert — Data from my iPhone ECG
Kendra Albert — The Great Book Project of 2013
Nick Alexander — Running Cold - Does it Burn More Calories?
Albara Alohali — Running Storytelling
Marco Altini — The Future of Wearable Sensors - From Quantifying Behavior to Quantifying Health
Troy Angrignon — QS Tools for Military Style Training
Dan Armstrong — Learning from Gratitude
Rain Ashford — Visualizing Physiological Data
Ulrich Atz — Experience Sampling of My Stress
Konstantin Augemberg — 100 Days of Summer
Valerie Aurora — Valerie Aurora on Tracking Street Harassment
Bryan Ausinheiler — Using Self-Tracking to Hack Musculoskeletal Pain
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Mad Ball — A Self-Study Of My Child's Genetic Risk
Robin Barooah — The Coffee Experiment· Weight Loss Through Embodied Learning
Ellis Bartholomeus — Draw a Face a Day· My Health Scars· This Is What I Ate
Chris Bartley — Landmines & Zombies
Matthew Beard — Long Run Quantification
Jana Beck — Exploring and Visualizing Diabetes Data
Juvoni Beckford — Keeping Track Of My Personal Development
Gordon Bell — Every Heart Beat· MyLifeBits
Maria Benet — Fit 50s, Sound 60s· Putting Numbers to Sleep
Buster Benson — How I use RescueTime
Josh Berson — Cartographies of Vigilance
Ariel Berwaldt — Self-Experiments With Sleep, Cognition, and Fasting· To Sleep-Perchance To Remember
Benjamin Best — My Blood Values From Diet And Other Activities
Joe Betts-LaCroix — 28 Hour Day
Lisa Betts-LaCroix — Tales of Weight Tracking
Gil Blander — Putting My Blood Metrics in Context
Ben Blench — Tracking infants
Damien Blenkinsopp — An “Unknown and Incurable Illness”
Whitney Erin Boesel — Cholesterol Levels While Nursing· Cholesterol Variability: Hours, Days, And My Ovulatory Cycle· My Numbers Sucked But I Made This Baby Anyway
Andre Boorsma — The Nutritional Researchers Cohort
Eric Boyd — Daily Rhythm Tracking w/ Nike+ Fuelband
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Stuart Calimport — Memomics And Longevity
Sara Cambridge — Lessons From Food Tracking
Robert Carlsen — input/output
Stephen Cartwright — 17 Years of Location Tracking· Seeing My Data In 3d
Damien Catani — Dreaming in Numbers· Goalmap: All Your Life Goals In One Place
Ajay Chander — Measuring the Moment
Janet Chang — Sub-Perceptual Psilocybin Dosing
Kai Chang — Crossfit
Debbie Chaves — A Librarian in Numbers
Jessica Ching — Learning An Impossible Form Of Exercise
Rocio Chongtay — Quantified Brain and Music for Self-Tuning
Thomas Blomseth Christiansen — 50,000 Observations Later· Debugging My Allergy· Debugging My Allergy· Over-Instrumented Running: What I Learned From Doing Too Much· Which Grasses Aggravate My Allergies?
Sky Christopherson — Quantified Self and the London Olympics
Juliana Chua — Connecting my Mind and Body· Tinké: Monitoring Fitness Levels and Relaxation Indexes· When Anxiety Knocks
Sacha Chua — Quantified Awesome
Cara Mae Cirignano — How Much Does it Cost Me To Choose Organic/Local Food?
Jordan Clark — Quantifying The Effects Of Microaggressions
Ian Clements — Self-Monitoring and Cancer Survivorship
Alex Collins — Managing Type 1 Diabetes
Shannon Conners — Learning about Biases and Gaps in my Self-Collected Data
David Cooper — Psychological Self-Monitoring for the Military
John Cottongim — Measuring And Predicting Daily Satisfaction
Jon Cousins — Daily Well being Tracking as a Couple· Why I Weighed My Whiskers· Words for Mood Measurement
Roger Craig — Knowledge Tracking· Spaced Repetition: A Cognitive QS Method for Knowledge Acquisition
Brian Crain — Optimizing Productivity
Nick Crocker — Floss the Teeth You Want To Keep
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Chris Dancy — Data Cartography: The Journey to Existence Mapping
Dan Dascalescu — A 30 Day Trial of the Slow Carb Diet
Steve Dean — Washing My Eyelids
Steven Dean — How to Live in NYC with Zero Expenses· Project Faster: Tracking to Improve Cycling Performance· Tracking over Time
Maggie Delano — Building Myself Back Up· ECG and Activity Monitoring: What Can We Learn?· Quantifying My Phd: Pomodoros And Productivity
Rose Delgado — Financial Tracking
Robert DeSaulniers — Tracking a Memetic Diet
Laurie Dillon-Schalk — Work-Life Balance
Nancy Dougherty — Quantified/Unquantified· Technology for Mindfulness
Charlampos Doukas — Using IOT for Motivation
Mark Drangsholt — Deciphering My Brain Fog· What Causes My Heart Rhythm Disorder· What Causes my Heart Rhythm Disorder?
Arlene Ducao — This Is Your Brain On Bike
Mette Dyhrberg — The Pomodoro Recovery
Esther Dyson — Genes and other strangers
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Colette Ellis — Fitbit: You Had Me at Smooches
Bruno van den Elshout — New Horizons
Ian Eslick — Decisions and Experimentation in the Quantified Self· Personal Science and Other Things
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Jeff Fajans — Achieving the Good Life via Positive Psychology-Based QS
Jonny Farringdon — Self-Quantification with BodyMedia
Ryan Floyd — Improving Time Management
Tone Fonseca — How to Win a Food Fight
Justin Foo — 15 Weeks of Self Tracking - 40 Pounds Lost
Ian Forrester — Tracking Media Consumption
Tiago Forte — Getting Things Done, Quantified
Stephen Fortune — Felt Routines
Erica Forzani — Sensing Breath and Air· Tracking Pregnancy and Baby Growth
Laurie Frick — Experiments in Self-Tracking· Sleep Patterns
Morgan Friedman — Tracking Baby Milestones: Surprising Results Of Bringing Data To Parenting
Alberto Frigo — 2004-2040· The Art of Self-Tracking
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Natasha Gajewski — Tracking Symptoms
Alan Gale — Long-term Nutrient Logging and Systematic Analysis
Daniel Gartenberg — Inside Tracker· Tracking and Improving My Sleep
Eri Gentry — Social Studies
Kirill Gertman — Quantifying Motivation with a Smart Shirt
Kiel Gilleade — Lessons from a year of heart rate data· Rhythmanalysis
David Goldstein — Naming the Demon
David Gordon — The Arithmetic of Life
Maximilian Gotzler — A Testosterone and Diet Experiment
Azure Grant — Hot Stuff: Body Temperature And Ovulatory Cycles· My Biological Rhythms In Sickness And In Health
Todd Greco — Building My External Brain
Eric Green — Elimination Diet + Functional Medicine
Dr. Alan Greene — Reverse Mood Tracking
Dana Greenfield — Leaning into Grief
Beau Gunderson — Online Activity Aggregation
Cathal Gurrin — Me and My Log· Six Year Visual Lifelogging
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Richard Harrison — How I Lost 200 Lbs.
Denis Harscoat — For me doing is a form of knowing: triggering my actions with data
Björn Hedin — How Much Carbon Dioxide Do I Emit?
Elliott Hedman — Physiological measurements at classical concerts· Physiological measurements at classical concerts
Marco van Heerde — Feedback and awareness: form Paleo to creativity
Karl Heilbron — Do Probiotics Affect My Gut?
Karen Herzog — Sophia (w/ Richard Sachs)
Hind Hobeika — Butterfly Project: Swimming Goggles To Measure Heart Rate
Stefan Hoevenaar — My Father, a Quantified Diabetic
Natty Hoffman — The Enlightened Consumer
Catherine Hooper — Hour-Tracking for Priority Optimization
Fu-Chieh Hsu — Making Sense of My Bio-signals
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Kitty Ireland — Grandma Was A Lifelogger
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Eric Jain — Consolidating Gadgets· Four Weeks Of Blood Sugar Tracking· Lies, Damn Lies, and Correlations· Tracking with Zenobase
Stan James — A Year Well Sliced-Lessons From My Laptop
Shelly Jang — Can't You See I Was Falling In Love· Understanding Fitness With Muscle Activation Data
Olivier Janin — Playing with my Breath
Joris Janssen — SenseOS
Steven Jonas — Memorizing My Daybook· Memorizing My Days· Memory and Learning· Of Trivial Value? Lessons From Using SuperMemo· Spaced Listening· Stressing Out Loud
Peter Joosten — What I learned From Extensive Morning Tracking
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Kouris Kalligas — Analyzing My Weight and Sleep· Re-Living My Life with Mood Tracking
Philipp Kalwies — Measuring Exhaustion and Readiness· Measuring My Blood Glucose
Doug Kanter — A Year of Diabetes Data· Diabetes, Databetes & Marathon Training
Lillian Karabaic — #100daysofqs: Daily Art From Data· What If My Life Was The Economy Of A Small Country?
Michael Kazarnowicz — Lessons From the Gray Zone Between QS and CBT
Su Hyun Kim — Quantifying the Emotional Self
Brooks Kincaid — A Diabetic's Experiment with Self Quantification
Christian Kleinedam — Tracking and improving my lung function
Peter Kok — Diabetes Viz
Kevin Krejci — Parkinson's Tracking Update· Tracking my Parkinson's
Ute Kreplin — Moodscope, subjective ratings and body blogging
Mark Krynsky — We Are All Going To Die: How Is Our Digital Life Preserved
Agnieszka Krzemińska — Does Biofeedback Help Improve Focus And Meditation?
Peter Kuhar — Tracking my Bruxism
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Paul LaFontaine — Effect of Ketogenic Diet On Heart Rate Variability· Heart Rate Variability and Flow· Using Heart Rate Variability to Analyze Stress in Conversation· We Never Fight on Wednesday
Valerie Lanard — Breaking the TV Habit· Learning From Excuses
Ellen de Lange-Ros — Using Lift
Jason Langheier — Tailored Meals
Jakob Eg Larsen — How Food Tracking Supported Becoming a Vegetarian· My experience with a smartphone brainscanner· My Headaches From Tracking Headaches
Jakob Larsen — Tracking My Sleep And Resting Heart Rate
Adam Laughlin — Measuring the Brain with Inside
Justin Lawler — Improving Mental Focus Through Lifelogging· Taking On My Osteoporosis· Tracking Glucose As A Person Without Diabetes
JD Leadam — How I Zapped My Brain With A 9v Battery To Overcome Analysis Paralysis
Mark Leavitt — Hacking Habits· Quantifying Seat Time
Victor Lee — Quantifying with Kids
Brian Levine — Learning from Self-Report
Dana Lewis — We Are Not Waiting
Peter Lewis — Meditation and Brain Function
Michael Lim — To Teach Quantified Self, First Know Thyself
Denise Lorenz — Does Diet Affect My Sleep?
Yasmin Lucero — Tracking my baby's sleep
Suzanne Lueder — Solving A Food Allergy Mystery
Madison Lukaczyk — How Work Distractions Affect My Focus
Michael Lustgarten — My Road to Optimal Health and Lifespan
Lydia Lutsyshyna — Separating Work And Home
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Robby Macdonell — 8,000 Screen Hours· The Data Is In, I'm a Distracted Driver
Christel de Maeyer — My Journey with Sleep Monitoring
Ilyse Magy — Know Thy Cycle, Know Thyself
Stephen Maher — A Decade Of Tracking Headaches
Matt Manhattan — Overthinking Everything I Own
Joshua Manley — Evolving Health
Eric Mann — Managing My Time with A Dashboard View
James McCarter — The Effects of a Year in Ketosis
Kathryn McCurdy — My Spreadsheet from Hell
Ari Meisel — Experiments In Treating My Crohn's Disease
Lindsay Meyer — Tracking My Hearing Loss
Anna Franziska Michel — Using Running And Cycling Data To Inform My Fashion
Tahl Milburn — How My Life Automation System Quantifies My Life· Quantifying My Mental and Experiential State
Dave Miller — VO2Max
Vivienne Ming — Tracking my Son's Diabetes
John Moore — New Media Medicine
Mark Moschel — 30 Days of Rejection Therapy· Blood Ketones During Regular Fasting· Can a 5’7” Person Learn to Dunk a Basketball?· Data From My Year As A Nomad· Repairing My Gut After Travel· Tracking Ketones
Ashish Mukharji — Tracking Happiness
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Dawn Nafus — What I Learned By Building
Robert Ness — Blood vs. Breath
Daniel Nofal — An open and integrated platform
James Norris — A Life of Firsts
Mariusz Nowostawski — Self Experimentation
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Rosane Oliveira — The Quantified Double Self: A Tale of Twins
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Homer Papadopoulos — Unobtrusive Smart Environments for Monitoring in Everyday Life
Georgios Papastefanou — A mobile biofeedback self-experiment: stress and eating
Aaron Parecki — Low Friction Personal Data Collection· Owning My Quantified Self Data· Ten Years Of Tracking My Location
Vik Paruchuri — Happsee
Andrew Paulus — Quantifying What To Wear
Amaan Penang — Quantified Spending: a Blueprint to Make Data-Driven Financial Decisions
Ralph Pethica — Finding The Optimal Training Zone· Improving My Fitness with Genetics· Using Genetics to Come Back From Injury
Joost Plattel — Activity Tracking for Teams· Fitting Mental Models· My Phone Use Data
Greg Pomerantz — High Carbohydrate Diet
Rob Portil — Weight Loss & Muscle Gain w/ Fitbit
Kyrill Potapov — Finding My Optimum Reading Speed· Tracking Productivity For Personal Growth· What Insidetracker Taught Me About My Five-Day Fast
Anne Prahl — Self Knowledge Through Textile-Based Sensing
Julie Price — 30lbs of Family Visits, Races, and Games· Tracking 10,000 Running Miles Over 10 Years
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Tiffany Qi — Productivity and Performance in College
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Siva Raj — Improving My Blood Pressure With Anaerobic Interval Training· Normalizing Blood Pressure by Improving Fitness
Shara Raqs — Estrogen And Invention
Daniel Reeves — Tracking My Personal Reliability
Eli Ricker — Tracking What I Do Versus What I Say I'll Do
Sara Riggare — Balancing Neurotransmitters In Neurological Illness· How Not to Fall· Tracking Parkinsons & Medication
Daniel Rinehart — Quantified Self for Preventative Care
Carlos Rizo — How I Hacked My Meditation Practice with My Mobile Phone
Danielle Roberts — A Reversed Calendar· Sleep As A Galaxy
Seth Roberts — QS + Paleo = ?
Amy Robinson — Quantified Curiosity
Katrina Rodzon — Celiac Discovery: Regaining My Health and Well-Being
Alec Rogers — What I'm Learning From My Meditation App
Lee Rogers — Setting Goals And Holding Myself To Account· Why Annual Reporting
Indhira Rojas — History and Future of QS Visualization· Indexer
Robert Rothfarb — Tracking INR· Tracking my Blood Anticoagulation Drug· Tracking Oral Anticoagulation Therapy With INR Journal
Aaron Rowe — Daily Lipids Testing
Richard Ryan — Walking the Talk: How to do QS
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Clair Samuel — Logging My Beer
Jose Luis Santos — Visualization of data in a learning and self-reflection context
Randy Sargent — 2 years of tracking weight diet and sleep
Fah Sathirapongsasuti — Blood Oxygen On Mt. Everest
Evan Savage — Panic
Stefano Schiavon — Personal Comfort
Jodi Schneider — Weight and exercise tracking with the Hacker Diet
Andreas Schreiber — Tracking After A Stroke: Doctors, Dogs, And All The Rest
Bill Schuller — How I Measured This Talk· QS Adventures with my Kids
Florian Schumacher — A Goal For Each Month· Tracking Activity, Posture and Time for Increased Health and Productivity
Greg Schwartz — Burning Body Media
Anand Sharma — April Zero and Me· From April Zero to Gyroscope
Nan Shellabarger — 28 Years of Tracking, But What Have I Learned?
Rob Shields — A Photo Every Minute: One Year Later
Mikey Sklar — Three Marathons On Zero Calories
Adrienne Andrew Slaughter — Carbless in Seattle
Benjamin Smarr — Does My Stomach Anticipate My Meals?
Larry Smarr — Where There's Data There's Hope
Rick Smolan — The Human Face of Big Data
Ken Snyder — Brain Optimization
Michael Snyder — Using Big Data to Manage Health
Bethany Soule — Extreme Productivity
Cantor Soule-Reeves — Fight For Your Right To Recess
David de Souza — The Dashboard Of My Life
Richard Sprague — Cholesterol and My Gut Microbiome· Continuous Glucose Measurement· Fish Oil Makes Me Smarter· What's New in QS
Phil von Stade — Life Logging: Using Spreadsheets
Winslow Strong — Salt & Carb
Erzsi Szilagyi — Focusing on Life with an Open-Source Artificial Pancreas
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Alex Tarling — Meta-Effects of Happiness Tracking
Arne Tensfeldt — Activity Tracking and Weight Loss: Apps and Gadgets in Practice
Tara Thiagarajan — Mindtrack
Jenny Tillotson — Science, Smell, Fashion
Justin Timmer — A Lazy Workout· A Life Of Fractals· My Life In 40 Variables
Peter Torelli — Narratives Hidden in 20 Years of Personal Financial Data
Bob Troia — Tracking (and Hacking) My Glucose· Understanding My Blood Glucose· What's My Indoor Environment Like?
Alastair Tse — Walk All of Manhattan
Sebastien Le Tuan — Tracking Punctuality
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Valera Vasylenko — A Year In Running
Matt Velderman — Improving Skin Health
Morris Villarroel — A Four-Year Journal
Tim Vink — Sleep and Food: an experiment in progress
Arend Visser — Neurologica
Ewart de Visser — QS+1: Tracking My Friend's Trading Performance
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Shaun Wallace — n=1 Personal Informatics
Charles Wang — Mindfulness, Technology, and Me· Self Tracking Awareness and Change
Melinda Watman — Self Tracking: The Weight of it All
Eleanor Watson — 3D Body Measurement on a Smartphone
Sara M. Watson — Past Present Future
Robin Weis — Crying
Jamie Williams — A Quest for High Fidelity Activity Tracking
Kaiton Williams — The Weight of Things Lost
Mark Wilson — Three Years of Logging my Inbox
Gary Wolf — High-Frequency Blood Glucose Testing
Scott Wolf — Nasal Breathing Improves Wellbeing
Anne Wright — Data Exploration With Fluxtream/BodyTrack
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Aaron Yih — Tracking Across Generations
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Stephen Zadig — Life in the Fast Lane: Learning from Vitals
Laila Zemrani — Can A Picture Be Worth A Thousand Numbers· Exercise: Data-Driven Decisions· Using Self Tracking to Exercise More Efficiently
Steven Zhang — Concussions, Headaches and the Whole30 Elimination Diet
Renate Zwijsen — Arterial Stiffness