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• Richard Sprague
  ==Things I Track== Glucose: For many years I've been using a Continuous Glucose Monitor to track my blood glucose.
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• Ambient Environment and Room Weather
  ...ally weather category. Can be used to tell if user is outdoors and compare to recorded weather. === Potential things to track ===
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• Bitesnap
  App to log meals and [[diet tracking]].<ref>https://getbitesnap.com/</ref> ...meal was edited allowing a sort of background attention testing. Train AI to recognize food. Enter food using barcode.
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• A Life Of Fractals
  ...about the frailty of his life and why he tracks these variables. He wants to know if there are deeper patterns of reasoning behind his life-logging and
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• Keeping Track Of My Personal Development
  Show and Tell Infobox|Featured image=[[File: Keeping-track-of-my-personal-development.jpg|frameless|250px]] | Date= 2016/08/04 |Event '''''Keeping Track Of My Personal Development''''' is a ''Show & Tell talk'' by [[Juvoni Beckf
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• Fitting Mental Models
  ...king his food, activity and productivity, he noticed some things happening to his mind. It adapts. He shares his experience of his brain adaptation whil ...oing all these tracking that I have done. It’s about fitting mental models to a self-tracking life.
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• Optimizing Productivity
  ...he completes each day and what new methods he’s using to make sure he gets things done.</blockquote> <blockquote>So my name is Brian Crain and I’m here to share my story about the tracking that I’ve been perusing for quite a whi
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• Quantified Awesome
  ...talks about her personal dashboard, www.quantifiedawesome.com and all the things she has been tracking; clothes, time, etc.. She built it using Ruby on Rail ...t lets you track so many more things that companies might never get around to doing.
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• My Spreadsheet from Hell
  ...tions, many different things impact how she feels from stress to caffeine, to lack of sleep or whether she has been drinking. In this talk, she discusses Hi, my name is Katie, and I would like to talk with you today about my spreadsheet from hell and what I learned from
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• Self Tracking, Types Movements Communities
  ...the type and goal of self tracking and find a community that does similar things. See also [[Reasons for and against self tracking and quantification|Reason * [[Personal science]] (see also [[Personal Science (book)]]) track to preform scientific method style experiments on health and improve productiv
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• Tracking your brain on booze, Boozerlyzer
  .... The Boozerlyzer is available in the Adroid store and Caspar explains how to use it. </blockquote> ...I might underestimate for various reasons. So you need to be able to track things as they are actually happening.
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• Surveying symptoms and states
  ...and note taking]], survey and assessment is less flexible but much easier to analyze. ...ysymptoms]] Easy and quick to fill out but sampling is when user remembers to do it.
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• The Enlightened Consumer
  ...wn personal finances. In this talk, she discusses her experiment in trying to do better personally on her finances.</blockquote> ...really track ourselves and figure out how we make decisions is the way we track our spending.
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• Tracking INR
  ...d discovery that can help me stay on top of health issues that I have, and to have productive conversations and interactions with my medical team. ...medical issues is the advance of miniaturization in devices that allow me to be involved directly with some of the tracking and data acquisitions.
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• Using Running And Cycling Data To Inform My Fashion
  |Featured image= [[File: Using-running-and-cycling-data-to-inform-my-fashion.jpg|frameless|250px]] ...g-and-cycling-data-to-inform-my-fashion.pdf|Using-running-and-cycling-data-to-inform-my-fashion.pdf]]
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• Life Logging: Using Spreadsheets
  ...as a search tool as a way to leverage your accomplishments and as an index to 150,000+ photos! A simple spreadsheet can be your friend. </blockquote> ...got involved with Quantified Self when Gary Wolf was looking for somebody to help run the Berkeley smaller group and I foolishly offered.
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• Learning from Self-Report
  ...l called younlocked. In this talk, Brian discusses some of the interesting things he's found out by answering over 10,000 questions during the last six month ...king hardware, software and products that have a human analytics component to them.
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• Psychological Self-Monitoring for the Military
  ...The application that they created is called Mood Tracker. It allows people to create their own rating scale, using a visual analog scale which is a quick I’m trying to marriage those two in a career because most of phycology fits very well wit
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• Tracking Productivity For Personal Growth
  ...e to actually grow a plant based on time spent on personal growth in order to find deeper meaning in his productivity and ultimately his life. </blockquo Last year I found my granddads shaving razor and it’s strange to have something that had been such an intimate part of his world. And I almo
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• Quantifying My Phd: Pomodoros And Productivity
  <blockquote>How much work does it take to get a PhD? How do marathon work sessions affect future productivity? Maggie I’m Maggie and I’m going to be talking about my quantified PhD.
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• Goalmap: All Your Life Goals In One Place
  ..., track, and reach all types of goal in all fields of life from conception to completion.</blockquote> ...-tracking, is that best suspicious. We enjoy cheese, wine, love, all sweet things in life, so how did I get into it?
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• Tracking my Blood Anticoagulation Drug
  ...th conditions became interested in tracking his blood at home, in addition to activity tracking and tracking his weight. In this video, he talks about tr ...on is entirely my personal health to make myself and well-being better and to improve that.
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• Self Experimentation
  I already feel [inaudible] because I can sort of relate to everything that I’ve seen so far, or heard. So thanks so far for being he ...h I do outside of work, and those worlds collide a little bit. So I wanted to tell you why I’m doing life logging, and what I have done in the last few
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• Hour-Tracking for Priority Optimization
  ...ails how she prioritize things and how she was able to say no to important things.</blockquote> ...ason I do this is to keep my time consistent with my priorities and I want to talk briefly tonight about how I do that.
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• Overthinking Everything I Own
  So what do I track? I track all the apps that are on my phone. I also track all the objects such as my computer, which with the date and the price info ...he gift givers, serial number notes and anything else that I might pertain to all the stuff in my list.
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• Daily Rhythm Tracking w/ Nike+ Fuelband
  ...er API. By being able to access the minute-level daily data, Eric was able to make sense of his daily patterns, explore abnormalities in his data, and le Hello, so I’m here to give a brief talk about the Nike Fuelband. I got one at Christmas. I have n
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• Running Cold - Does it Burn More Calories?
  ...he same as much as he could, including his route, the duration it took him to run, and the clothes he wore throughout the year. What he found out was tha ...g the same as much as I could, including my route, the duration it took me to run, the clothes I wore throughout the year.
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• Mindtrack
  <blockquote>Tara Thiagarajan has been self-tracking for 22 years. She tracks things like her calories, nutrition, water, exercise, and sleep. In this video, sh ...to track. And for example, with the intention now of basically being able to drive optimal levels in my metabolic system, my focus, my productivity, my
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• Logging My Beer
  ...ocation of beer for workers or if it were a recipe and it’s in those poems to. ...u have a really good beer and you don’t remember the name it’s really hard to advise a friend have it.
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• Getting Things Done, Quantified
  '''''Getting Things Done, Quantified''''' is a ''Show & Tell talk'' by [[Tiago Forte]] that has ...ire too much time for behavior change because it’s for beginners and needs to provide real insights. In this video he shares his learnings. </blockquote>
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• Setting Goals And Holding Myself To Account
  |Featured image= [[File: Setting-goals-and-holding-myself-to-account.jpg|frameless|250px]] ...g-goals-and-holding-myself-to-account.pdf|Setting-goals-and-holding-myself-to-account.pdf]]
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• 2004-2040
  ...s. Keeping the focus on himself and his surrounding has helped him connect to himself and the world around him. </blockquote>
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• ECG and Activity Monitoring: What Can We Learn?
  <blockquote>Maggie Delano wanted to see what she would find out if she tracked her electrocardiograms continuou ...aggie Delano and I think the cardiovascular system is awesome. So I wanted to see what I would find if I tracked my electrocardiograms continuously over
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• Quantifying the Emotional Self
  ...graduate student at NYITP and I focus on creative technology. Today I want to share about my ongoing project on emotional data. ...ack the emotion I’ve been tracking myself and see what are the best was to track an emotion.
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• Measuring And Predicting Daily Satisfaction
  ...a process automation team. In this video, John discusses how he learned to track, measure, and predict his daily satisfaction by combining automation, visua ...echnical but I assure I am absolutely not a coder. So everything I’ll talk to you today was done and can be done without writing a line of code.
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• Self Tracking: The Weight of it All
  ...She also discusses the weight of self tracking, what if one suddenly wants to stop but cant. </blockquote> ...se will be a little bit different than some other talks, but they all seem to be in the food and the eating industry here.
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• Weight and exercise tracking with the Hacker Diet
  ...ike weight and exercise data is a lot harder. So I’m hoping while I’m here to get some more about that. So just to tell you a little bit about what you know, so what am I doing to begin with?
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• Tracking my Parkinson's
  ...r different symptoms and outcomes related to his diagnosis. Watch his talk to hear about his triumphs and challenges.</blockquote> ...nd what’s PD you ask. PD is a neurodegenerative disease that makes it hard to pronounce words like neurodegenerative and it’s basically a motor disorde
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• Tracking Oral Anticoagulation Therapy With INR Journal
  ...tting. Robert developed INR Journal to help himself and others follow and track their oral anticoagulant therapy, including dosage and testing, on their mo ...going to talk a little bit about an application I’ve been writing to help track my Anti-Coagulation Therapy. That’s a long fancy work for what people hav
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• Using IOT for Motivation
  ...about how he uses Internet of Things combined with devices to motivate him to be more active. He shares his learned experiences in this talk. </blockquo ...analyze data and I’m very data curious. I also blog about the Internet Of Things. So this means I spend a lot of time sitting in front of a computer and com
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• Genes and other strangers
  ...s how genome can help you perhaps predict when you will be dead. She tries to point out in that your genetics matter a lot, for example 70%-80% of your r ...f the personal genome project. My entire genome is up online and I’m happy to talk about it later in the Q and A. my talk is actually a fewer slides than
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• Low Friction Personal Data Collection
  ...d to track consistently. Combining these data sources helped him learn new things about himself. In this video, he talks about his tracking practices and his ...actually see where I am right now, but I’ve reduced that information down to one decimal point of Lat long, so you so you only know where I am within ha
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• How Food Tracking Supported Becoming a Vegetarian
  ...shares in this video. Through using photos on his smart phone, he was able to document his diet and reflect on the process. </blockquote> ...I’ll tell you a little bit about the process and how I used self-tracking to journal and reflect all of my diet and also especially on the various that
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• Happsee
  ...lled Happsee, which collects data using smartphone sensors to quantify and track happiness. In this talk, he discusses the app and what he has learned from ...o fix that. So I wanted to explore this whole space of unhappiness and how to improve it.
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• Washing My Eyelids
  |Related topics= Productivity, Symptoms related to eyelid inflammation, Medication habits ...was given on 2014/05/11 and is about [[Productivity]], [[Symptoms related to eyelid inflammation]], and [[Medication habits]].
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• Tracking 10,000 Running Miles Over 10 Years
  ...ce that training was working or that she was accomplishing what she wanted to? In this talk, she iterates her planning, tracking and training, and discus ...time I have iterated my planning, and tracking and training, and I’m going to talk you through what I learned.
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• Data From My Year As A Nomad
  ...d a year as a nomad. He had no real reason but was curious to collect data to reflect on it afterwards. In this talk, Mark shares some of his data from b ...ided not to get a new place and just kind of decided what it would be like to not have a home.
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• Experiments In Treating My Crohn's Disease
  ...to the hospital, he decided to take control of his pain. So he started to track everything and eventually cured himself of Crohn's disease by experimenting ...ne. I thought I was going to have 20 minutes with what I wanted to come up to say but I’m first.
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• Why Annual Reporting
  ...n annual report every year that focuses on his goals and different methods to display and visualize the vast amount of information he’s collecting. In ...of snapshoting your data so that you can make big decisions and do bigger things with that data and maybe even with your life.
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• 100 Days of Summer
  ...onstantin Augemberg, known as the Measured Me guy, was on a personal quest to develop his own system for self-tracking, life-logging and self-experimenta ...now me as the Measured Me guy and basically in this presentation I’m going to talk about the self-tracking experiment which I conducted tis summer which
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• What's New in QS
  ...rate sensor unlike Fitbit. Shine is similar to a Fitbit only is designed to be really small and has an attractive industrial design.</blockquote> ...he new products coming out, and I know that a lot of you are already using things like, how many of you have the Zeo and Fitbit, and Withings.
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• Quantified Spending: a Blueprint to Make Data-Driven Financial Decisions
  '''''Quantified Spending: a Blueprint to Make Data-Driven Financial Decisions''''' is a ''Show & Tell talk'' by [[Am ...alized he needed to keep better track of his money especially after moving to the SF Bay Area. In this video, he talks about how he did it. He also share
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• 8,000 Screen Hours
  ...ar what’s he learned about his work habits, productivity and how he’s come to think about time.</blockquote> ...ing to understand this time a little bit and I wanted to share some of the things I’ve learned over the years.
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• Activity Tracking for Teams
  ...ound tracking physical activities of people within teams. From using Moves to a full dashboard displayed on a wall, he discusses what works. </blockquot ...behaviour based on QS related data, the office would be a very nice place to do so, because you spend a lot of time in it.
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• My Phone Use Data
  ...k his phone use for a year with Moments. Our phones can store data on many things including how much we use them. In this video, he shares what he learned fr Hi I’m Joost. I want to go back to 2015 when I was notoriously bad at this thing. Most of you were here yester
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• Tales of Weight Tracking
  ...behavioral variables. From simple excel spreadsheets to using Google forms to finally using the Withings wireless scale Lisa explains why and how she’s ...n I met an intriguing scientist and entrepreneur who was what I later came to realize a data whore.
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• How to Win a Food Fight
  Show and Tell Infobox|Featured image=[[File: How-to-win-a-food-fight.jpg|frameless|250px]] | Date= 2013/07/23 |Event name= Bost '''''How to Win a Food Fight''''' is a ''Show & Tell talk'' by [[Tone Fonseca]] that ha
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• Tracking Symptoms
  ...gnosis by a doctor she had to track her symptoms. She developed an iOS app to help her do this. The app was built for her, but recently diagnosed patient ...s. In a very short period of time I just went from just incredibly healthy to really sick and really debilitated in three months.
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• Walk All of Manhattan
  ...air shares his adventures in working towards the goal, and the interesting things he learned about himself from the experience.</blockquote> ...so unlike all the guys who are really not into manual tracking, I started to writing it down manually like this, and I’m not sure if you can see but b
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• From April Zero to Gyroscope
  Show and Tell Infobox|Featured image=[[File: From-april-zero-to-gyroscope.jpg|frameless|250px]] | Date= 2015/06/18 |Event name= 2015 QS Glo '''''From April Zero to Gyroscope''''' is a ''Show & Tell talk'' by [[Anand Sharma]] that has been
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• QS+1: Tracking My Friend's Trading Performance
  ...taken the course, but by the end of 2010, he was losing. So Ewart decided to start tracking his friend's performance in a Google sheets. In this talk, E ...whole work thing. He never has, so he came to me one day and say I’m going to do foreign currency exchange trading. So this has become pretty popular of
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• Diet tracking
  ...at enable additional data such as calories, macro/micronutrients and other things. Additionally, they can allow tracking micronutrients which are supplemente *Winslow Strong used diet tracking in [[MyFitnessPal]] to [https://quantifiedself.com/show-and-tell/?project=155 observe how a low ca
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• 28 Years of Tracking, But What Have I Learned?
  ...ays she is constantly analyzing and visualizing her data in different ways to learn something new about herself. </blockquote> Hi, I’m Nan. What I do in my day job is nothing to do with health or tech, but I am a data analyst. Once upon a time I was a h
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• Dreaming in Numbers
  ...0 dreams later, Damien shares the surprise findings made during this quest to rationalize irrationality. </blockquote> How foolish can you be to stand in front of a large audience and say I have a dream? I thought about
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• Tailored Meals
  ...shboard using your Quantified Self data. He shares how QS data can be used to actually change the way you live despite the hustle and bustle of every day ...ly want to focus on today is how you can use Quantified Self data to start to empower your own life and take control of setting your own default behaviou
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• What I learned From Extensive Morning Tracking
  ...metimes he introduces new things, and sometimes he try to optimize certain things. For the last two years, he ran these month-long experiments that have taug ...ut products and apps and I also write about (cross phase? 00:37) and other things, but my main part of my blog is actually my monthly experiments. For every
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• Leaning into Grief
  ...cking to better understand her own grief and the role her mother continues to play in her life. </blockquote> ...aning into Grief and I would like to thank Gary for inviting me here today to share my story.
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• The Data Is In, I'm a Distracted Driver
  ...cted driver. He combined two data streams, using Automatic and RescueTime, to prove that he does not use his phone while driving nearly as often as other ...use if feel that it's something that I do a whole lot more now than I used to. I moved from Tennessee a couple of years ago from Seattle, and I didn't ev
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• Owning My Quantified Self Data
  ...ost every Quantified Self tracking device over the years. But what happens to your data when these devices die, and you replace them and get new devices. Your data ends being fragmented because it lives on a silo that’s specific to the device. So, my Jawbone sleep data is in the Jawbone. And then in Januar
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• Building My External Brain
  ...is exobrain, including recording every location he's visited, allowing him to call up each place individually or map them.</blockquote> ...talking more about observational rather than experimental things if I want to use a descriptor yesterday morning.
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• A Life of Firsts
  <blockquote>James Norris is on a quest to experience life as much as possible. He has been tracking life events for 1 ...te>I am on a quest to experience as much in life as possible, and I’m here to share a bit of that story, if that’s okay with you. You can find me at @j
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• How I use RescueTime
  ...alks about the ease of different kinds of tracking, from passive to binary to active entry, and previews some some Habit Labs apps. </blockquote> ...s a win-win for everybody, so we have a lot of things. But today I’m going to show you my productivity matrix.
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• Tracking and Improving My Sleep
  ...is passion is this idea of not just tracking sleep but actually being able to improve sleep. He also makes sleep apps. He started tracking his sleep afte ...my passion is this idea of not just tracking sleep but actually being able to improve sleep. And what inspires me here is maybe if you could just improve
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• The Pomodoro Recovery
  ...using Pomodoro method and Mymee app. The lack of progress has prompted her to look at her tracking data, after which she realized that she may have been ...e totally forgot until right now that I have been speaking at one of these things before.
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• Exercise: Data-Driven Decisions
  ...g what they were doing. And by the way about half of the 60% even admitted to copying whatever their neighbors were doing so that they don’t look like ...on because when it comes to exercise there are so many activities, so many things we could be doing.
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• The Great Book Project of 2013
  ...bert embarked on "The Great Book Project of 2013", a New Year's resolution to read five books a week for nine months.</blockquote> ...what so ever. They just sat there, I never read them, and I really wanted to make distinguishable progress on them and really dig into my reading habits
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• Tracking Pregnancy and Baby Growth
  ...metabolic rate, activity, blood pressure and diet throughout her pregnancy to argue many pregnancy and breastfeeding myths. </blockquote> We want to share our data, tracking, and pregnancy and baby growth. So our story is th
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• 50,000 Observations Later
  ...he’s been able to start to understand himself better. Watch his talk below to see what Thomas learned, and how he thinks about his process of continuous ...ns and it comes out of our own experiences of doing self-tracking in these things.
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• Lessons from a year of heart rate data
  ...a day. Over the course of a year, he learned how his heart rate responded to different events, dietary intake, and changes in routine. In the talk, Kiel ...is in physiological computing. This is where we use physiological signals to drive computing systems for various means such as games, health and such.
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• Tracking After A Stroke: Doctors, Dogs, And All The Rest
  ...ot of conferences all over the world and has a lot of stress which led him to a stroke in 2009. After his stroke, he started tracking his vital signs, sl ...o open stuff, and I was in rehab for a couple of months and tried to learn to speak again which sometimes works like no hopefully and I can use my hand a
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• A Lazy Workout
  ...ust squeezing the muscles without using any weight. He even went so far as to only target one side of his body so that he could test against his non-sque ...ement this workout in your daily life and you don’t have to do any changes to do the work out, and I will tell you later exactly what it is. But first, w
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• Know Thy Cycle, Know Thyself
  ...s whether your sex or sex practices pose such a risk, this is amazing data to know about the human body and why people do what they do. ...Hormonal birth control pills made me an absolute wreck. If they helped me to have more care-free sex, it was more at the price of caring more about abso
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• Running Storytelling
  <blockquote>Albara Alohali combined self-collected data and storytelling to help himself meet a personal challenge: running a marathon every month.</bl ...e urban design is all for people who would drive. If you want to go from A to Be, there’s pretty much not public transportation because gas is cheap. A
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• My Life In 40 Variables
  ...s his findings from his data; how tracking himself raises his awareness of things, confronts him with facts and makes him investigate deeper. He also shares ...I found in my data and what exactly did I analyze and what is good for you to know.
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• Tracking and improving my lung function
  ...his keynote, he shares his journey how he tracks his lung function and how to improve it. </blockquote> <blockquote>Today I will talk about my journey to track my lung function and to improve it.
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• Concussions, Headaches and the Whole30 Elimination Diet
  ...them post a concussion the year prior. He used Taplog to collect his data to analyze if he was indeed improving. </blockquote> ...my sleep patterns and then about a specific intervention that I did in how to improve those sleep patterns.
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• Mindfulness, Technology, and Me
  ...Ignite talk from Charles to hear about his observations and how they apply to his long-term posture tracking.</blockquote> ...ndful and aware. I love that previous talk and we talk about posture a lot to.
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• 4 Months Of Emotion Tracking
  ...ly working on. This small device comes in a mobile setting and helps users to accomplish their goals and see what’s going on in their emotional map. Ma ...ink that's the best environment for doing it. Our idea is to help the user to accomplish their goals and having a sense of what’s going on in their emo
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• Long Run Quantification
  ...to train, he would like to do more of the things that work and less of the things that don't. </blockquote> ...sing self-quantification to help me train for one of my ambitions which is to run an ultramarathon.
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• Using Genetics to Come Back From Injury
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• Seeing My Data In 3d
  ...rded data. The sculptures float in the air or are captured in clear blocks to reveal intersections and correlation of the data. In this video, Stephen sh ...the year, so they show me their calendar at the end of the year and I can track where they are.
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• Technology for Mindfulness
  ...ea of integrating mindfulness into her QS practice. When she took the time to look back at the tracking practice that was her most consistent – weight So I want to talk about Quantified Self, technology and mindfulness a little bit today.
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• Tracking (and Hacking) My Glucose
  ...ioned, there’s three questions we have to answer each time we come up here to present. ...are people familiar with blood glucose. Does anyone track it, when they go to the doctor, does anyone have a relative who’s a diabetic, anything like t
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• Tracking Punctuality
  ...bastien Le Tuan is a recovering "late-oholic." He is typically always late to friends and family events. One day he had a conversation with his dad that ...meone who’s typically late? Okay, and how many of you actually are willing to admit that that person is you? Wow! Okay, so come and see me afterward.
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• Inside Tracker Project
  ...going to be talking about this company called Inside Tracker, which I come to be familiar with and through my experience at a Quantified Self conference. ...sonalized interventions rom nutrition, exercise, lifestyle and supplements to optimize health and fitness. So it’s basically a company where you can go
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• 15 Weeks of Self Tracking - 40 Pounds Lost
  ...ost 40 pound by self-tracking with Fitbit. For 15 weeks, he used Fitbit to track his activity, his diet, and a little bit of his sleep. He shares what he d I’d like to take several minutes to share my introduction of my /quantified Self and self-tracking with you.
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• Improving Mental Focus Through Lifelogging
  ...l having some noticeable mood swings, so he decided to try Quantified Mind to start quantifying his cognitive function and short-term memory. In this tal ...ect, I suppose, because it focuses on something that I’ve always struggled to all my life. I was always a very distracted kid in school, so it was just a
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• April Zero and Me
  ...licly expose his data and insights. In this talk, he explains what led him to build it and what he learned along the way by publicly sharing his data.</b <blockquote>Anand Sharma “From April Zero to Gyroscope"
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• Quantified/Unquantified
  ...has been with involved with Quantified Self for numerous years. She likes to build her own sensors so she can do experiments around emotions, mindfulnes ...got doing this and how deeply disturbing that was to me, so it didn’t seem to make any sense.
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• The Dashboard Of My Life
  ...ard he created to help keep him on track for his earlier goal, in addition to other goals in his life, as well. </blockquote> ...ame to run my first ever marathon. But, like a lot of people when it comes to New Year resolutions I completely failed.
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• Estrogen And Invention
  ...cles, Shara Raqs discovered the time in her cycle that she was most likely to experience eureka moments.</blockquote> ...ka moments, but there’s actually eight other times when I also most likely to experience eight additional creative states.
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• Hacking Habits
  ...s father, uncle, and grandfather. In this talk, he shares how he uses data to hack his habits and what he learned from the experiment. The results of his ...but I took it out of necessity because in 2007 I found out I had the same things my father my uncle and my grandfather all had. I had heart disease at the a
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• Self-Monitoring and Cancer Survivorship
  ...etween doctor visits, potentially allowing lifestyle relationships with it to be explored. </blockquote> ...time survival. So really quite would you be in this anyway. Well you ought to know that in a few years’ time, half of the people alive will experience
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• Crying
  ...it suicide in February 2014. She then began a remarkable personal study to track her crying for almost 2 years. Throughout her tracking, she cried a total o ...to understand the distinction between the things that made me cry and the things that didn’t.
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• Quantified Self for Preventative Care
  ...cur. Daniel Rinehart talks about using sleep, happiness and biomarker data to keep himself in various “optimized zones” for his long-term health.</bl ...re. And by that I mean trying to track information through Quantified Self to kind of hope I live as long and healthy as I possibly can.
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• Sleep and Food: an experiment in progress
  ...invited to do a little show and tell about how I got into it, so I’m happy to share. ...schools; the nature school says you should just let nature do its work. Go to bed when you feel tired, wake up when you wake up yourself ad that will giv
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• Knowledge Tracking
  ...ago he designed a private web tool for himself and invited his friends to track his performance. </blockquote> ...and in this case it was the TV quiz show Jeopardy. And I then also wanted to fill in some of the gaps in an efficient optimal manner.
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• Understanding My Blood Glucose
  ...long-term tracking experiment where he tested his blood glucose and began to explore the effects of supplementation and lifestyle factors. In this talk, ...answer what did we do, how did we do it, and what did we learn. But I want to take a step back and actually answer four, why.
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• Indexer
  ...Indexer, a database for tracking consumption and managing waste. She wants to help people answer 2 questions: How much do I throw away? And, how do I rec ...m Indy, I’m a student from the California College of the Arts and I’m here to share with you a little bit of my thesis project. It’s called Indexer and
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• Past Present Future
  ...te>Sara Watson talks about how she uses digital time capsules like Timehop to resurface some of her archived personal data. She also talks about her fami Part of what inspired me to go back to school was to kind of think about seeing the discussion about personal data in the public
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• An “Unknown and Incurable Illness”
  ...ith excersize and a paleo diet he started to improve, but in 2012 he began to experience more strange symptoms. He started data tracking for about 8 year ...on and so varied I really didn’t know what was going on, and I wasn’t able to follow through with my life or work or anything.
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• Data Exploration With Fluxtream/BodyTrack
  ...process. She also talks about what data providers need to supply in order to support this sort of ongoing incremental reflection.</blockquote> ...out data aggregation, exploration with FluxtreamBodyTrack. I lead the body track project at Carnegie Mellon CREATE Lab and Fluxtream is an open source proje
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• Exploring and Visualizing Diabetes Data
  ...people with Type 1 diabetes are dependent on synthetic insulin to survive to live. So that’s either by infusion with some kind of insulin pump like th ...e an effect, like the curve and it’s not instantaneous at all. So you have to plan in advance and all that kind of stuff, it’s difficult basically. So
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• Tracking Activity, Posture and Time for Increased Health and Productivity
  <blockquote>Florian uses self-tracking to stay fit and focused while working on lots of different projects. In this t
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• Online Activity Aggregation
  ...lopment effort called The Locker Project. The goal basically is to be able to see new patterns and correlation by bringing these sources of data together ...n skip straight to the analysis and visualization or the doing cool stuff things as it were.
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• Feedback and awareness: form Paleo to creativity
  '''''Feedback and awareness: form Paleo to creativity''''' is a ''Show & Tell talk'' by [[Marco van Heerde]] that has ...In this video, he talks about the non-tech and low-tech experiments he did to become a better surfer and healthier. He learned that Quantified Self reall
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• Tracking My Personal Reliability
  |Related tools= commits.to ...no matter how casually, he logs the commitment, with a due date, and keeps track of when he follows through.</blockquote>
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• Grandma Was A Lifelogger
  <blockquote>When Kitty stumbled upon her grandmother’s diaries and started to explore the daily entries, she was struck by similarities with her own life ...felong and I work on a life logging app, I thought it would be interesting to go through and see what kind of data grandma tracked when she was a teenage
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• Productivity and Performance in College
  ...on between time spent and its impact on her success at UCB. She also comes to some conclusions about what is a successful student career.</blockquote> My name is Tiffany. I’m here to talk a bit about productivity and performance in college, so I actually rec
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• Salt & Carb
  ...eat from performance, health, longevity whatever. But the ultimate way is to test it on yourself and find out that way. The diet was mostly paleo so this means things like wholefoods, no grains a little bit of dairy and no legumes. And I was
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• Quantified Self and the London Olympics
  ...cs. In this talk, Sky shares his journey training an underdog cycling team to win a medal in the Olympics. </blockquote> ...project that was completely spontaneous, something we could have imagined to help the US women cycling team beat all odds at the 2012 London Olympics.
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• Weight Loss & Muscle Gain w/ Fitbit
  ...and has been overweight twice in his life. He used FitBit for four months to help him reach his target weight. In this video, describes how he experienc So this should be of some interest to most of you; weight loss and muscle gain with Fitbit. In my life I have bee
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• 2 years of tracking weight diet and sleep
  ...er at Carnegie MacMillan University, and I’m really happy to be here today to talk with you about my experiences tracking weight and diet for a couple of ...the number of calories that I burn each day. So lots and lots of things to track, but what do they all mean.
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• How My Life Automation System Quantifies My Life
  <blockquote>My name is Tahl Milburn and today we’re going to be talking about Liam. This is a life automation system. It’s a system th ...the logo for it that I’ve come up with. It does have a voice. It does talk to me, it’s part of my home automation system and it does text me and it int
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• Learning From Excuses
  ...s unexpected trove she learned why she tended to get sick, how she's prone to injury, and also the importance of logging a little extra context.</blockqu ...ing active enough, so I decided to set myself a goal of 120 days. I wanted to exercise 120 days in the coming year, and this is a view of the goal as it
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• Cholesterol and My Gut Microbiome
  ...e last two years. uBiome gives individuals access to sequencing technology to sequence their microbiomes and particularly their gut. In this talk, Richar ...inside of you are actually non- (unclear 01:11). So anyway, it all adds up to be something like between three and five pounds worth about the same as you
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• Tracking Parkinsons & Medication
  ...dication impacted her movement throughout the day and how that enabled her to have more meaningful conversations with her healthcare team.</blockquote> ...day in London and a preview of the talks that I will give that I will give to Medicine Ex on Friday, but also from the talk that I gave from the QS Amste
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• Solving A Food Allergy Mystery
  ...lobal Conference, Sue shows how she tracked her symptoms and used the data to make sense of this mystery food allergy. </blockquote> ...at pretty healthy. I’ve stopped eating gluten for a while, but when I went to Spain in 2011, I went hog-wild. I ate whatever I wanted. Here I am eating C
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• Memomics And Longevity
  <blockquote>Stuart set out to sequence a memome to find memes ("ideas" and "concepts" rather than viral pictures) associated w <blockquote>Hi there. I’m Stuart Calimport and I’m going to be talking about memomics and the longevity interaction, so thank you for h
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• Breaking the TV Habit
  ...ll of her TV time, and lessons she learned about herself when she was able to break the habit.</blockquote> ...this behavior and I didn’t know why. But then I figured it out. I happened to look down and see my hand on the remote one day, and I absolutely understoo
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• Fit 50s, Sound 60s
  ...of shape with bad knees and depressed. She was on meds so she made changes to her life, she started tracking her activity levels, weight, and food intake ...a Benet and I’m happy to tell you that only about two thirds of me is here to talk about my tracking project. I mean that literally because in the 10 yea
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• High-Frequency Blood Glucose Testing
  I’m going to talk about some unexplained blood glucose spikes at night. I tracked these .... And you fill out a patient ID and a name, any name. I put “Why do I have to do this” and then you get a file, and the files really interesting and re
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• The Weight of Things Lost
  '''''The Weight of Things Lost''''' is a ''Show & Tell talk'' by [[Kaiton Williams]] that has been im ...Over the last few years, he’s been interested in how people use technology to understand and create the stories of themselves. In this talk, he discusses
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• How to Live in NYC with Zero Expenses
  '''''How to Live in NYC with Zero Expenses''''' is a ''Show & Tell talk'' by [[Steven D <blockquote>How to Live in NYC with Zero Expenses - Steve Dean
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• Lessons From the Gray Zone Between QS and CBT
  ...nteresting because I’m used to giving lectures, but I don’t think I’m used to standing in front of this many billions of people. So I’m going to talk about a couple of lessons that I have learned from working in the Quan
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• What I'm Learning From My Meditation App
  <blockquote>Alec Rogers wanted to see if there was a way to measure mindfulness after meditation, so he built his own simple, open-sour ...e meditation and spirituality more full-time I wondered what I could bring to that field, because I personally found it so valuable. And writing software
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• 2021-09-09 Self-Research Chat
  ...orating heartrate … or EEG pipeline work … trying to decide, might be nice to brainstorm * Joyce - nothing to talk about, but could update on additional observations (and have thoughts
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• Deciphering My Brain Fog
  <blockquote>Hello I’m Mark and I’m going to first publicly tell my story about brain fog, which started occurring about
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• Lies, Damn Lies, and Correlations
  ...g wrong with that. For other people they may have specific goals they want to accomplish, they may do it for motivation, so that’s nice. I’m not terr ...e able to do an experiment that shows taking some extra vitamin D is going to reduce my personal cancer risk, right.
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• Can A Picture Be Worth A Thousand Numbers
  ...eft has higher health risks because of body shape. It’s also not that easy to differentiate between good and bad weight. ...myself that I gained muscle even if it’s not true. Because it’s a bit hard to get an accurate measurement of body fat versus lean mass at least not in yo
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• Tracking my Bruxism
  ...uxism (teeth grinding). Peter used an infrared video camera at his bedside to film his mouth at night and shares his findings in this video. </blockquot ...and for me it’s like two to ten grinds in a row and it can happen like 10 to 20 times in the night, sometimes more.
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• Quantifying with Kids
  ...his QS project using a range of technologies (fitbit, Jawbone, Garmin) to track kids' activities throughout their days. Lee helps the students work with th ...est support learning, and what sorts of tools and technology could help us to learn hard content.
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• Landmines & Zombies
  ...rack his wellness, medications and diet. He saw no improvement and decided to write a thesis on himself. He took the data and decomposed it into indicat ...Australia, unless you think it’s a back water it’s actually more expensive to live in Perth than in San Francisco, a cup of cappuccino cost’s about 4:5
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• Ten Years Of Tracking My Location
  ...books from when I was in grade school and I have been tracking the commute to school, so writing down what time I left, what time I arrived, who drove, w ...s down to California taking the giant foldout maps and using a highlighter to trace the route but in real-time, including all the little squiggles like s
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• QS + Paleo = ?
  ...ote>Seth Roberts offers an interesting perspective on how he has been able to accelerate his own self-discovery. He suggests combining the QS rigor of se ...hat thought to be unhealthy precisely now the opposite of what we now know to be true. So I guess in 1973 that got a big laugh.
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• Moodscope, subjective ratings and body blogging
  ...th the body blogging system and the continuous recording of the heart rate to see whether I could learn something useful from combining the two. ...er to measure subjective experience mood. Moodscope allows you to visually track the ups and downs over the weeks and months.
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• Tracking Happiness
  ...lear 00:38) and they had a bunch of really good introductions like be kind to people, meditate, don’t think too hard but the one I liked was the introd ...ng track of the number every night was actually a real strain and I did it to be here, I did it for you.
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• How Not to Fall
  |Featured image= [[File: How-not-to-fall.jpg|frameless|250px]] |Slides= [[:File:How-not-to-fall.pdf|How-not-to-fall.pdf]]
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• How Six Months of Tracking Everything Increased my Awareness
  ...the lack of daily structure would affect how he spent his time. He decided to tackle this question and start tracking his activities. In the video that f ...ltant lifestyle. Basically highly structures, highly busy even on weekends to completely unstructured; almost vagabonding. Why, is a different story.
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• Can a 5’7” Person Learn to Dunk a Basketball?
  |Featured image= [[File: Can-a-57-person-learn-to-dunk-a-basketball.jpg|frameless|250px]] ...:File:Can-a-57-person-learn-to-dunk-a-basketball.pdf|Can-a-57-person-learn-to-dunk-a-basketball.pdf]]
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• Life in the Fast Lane: Learning from Vitals
  ...hides that 63 year old white guy who’s sometimes in good shape with thanks to good genes, about 10 pounds overweight though but a moderate QS’er I woul ...rest and reduce your stress. If you can do those you can do a lot of good things for your body.
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• Quantifying Motivation with a Smart Shirt
  ...how the OM signal smart shirt helped him track his weight training, stick to his workout routine, and get measurable results. </blockquote> ...xciting; it’s a very challenging job. I get to do lots of very interesting things, but it’s also very stressful at times. And I’m sure for you that have
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• Tracking Baby Milestones: Surprising Results Of Bringing Data To Parenting
  '''''Tracking Baby Milestones: Surprising Results Of Bringing Data To Parenting''''' is a ''Show & Tell talk'' by [[Morgan Friedman]] that has be ...on after, he built an application and had data between 3,000 other parents to compare his baby's development with. By tracking and comparing baby milesto
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• Personal Science and Other Things
  '''''Personal Science and Other Things''''' is a ''Show & Tell talk'' by [[Ian Eslick]] that has been imported fro ...iscusses about his personal journey of self-experimentation and how access to the “tools of science” can be highly impactful especially for those bat
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• Naming the Demon
  ...my back. The implications were terrible. I had a nervous breakdown. I had to go on disability for a while and slipped into depression. And then even wor ...your life.” That’s not how it works, so it really kind of reinforced that to me.
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• MyLifeBits
  ...his data to be a surrogate memory - he doesn't look at it unless he needs to remember something specific, and he enjoys making films from the pictures. ...ed MyLifeBits which was the issue of trying to realize and that was trying to put everything basically on your hard drive.
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• 17 Years of Location Tracking
  ...ws how seventeen years of location tracking has given him a wealth of data to explore in the form of three-dimensional data visualization sculptures, whi ...ephen Cartwright. I’m an artist and a self-tracker. I’m here today to talk to you about my location tracking project. I did this for a year. I recorded m
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• Sub-Perceptual Psilocybin Dosing
  I work in the tech industry in San Francisco and I wanted to talk about my micro dosing experiment in the last 12 months that helped me ...it was like a rapid-fire experiment with various substances, And I wanted to see if I could retain the benefits of some of that on a consistent basis wi
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• Improving Time Management
  ...he started his fund, he decided to take on new investors, but didn't want to spend too much time on marketing. So, he broke his work time down in differ ...moved to San Francisco three years ago and I’d like to chat about keeping track of my time.
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• My Road to Optimal Health and Lifespan
  Show and Tell Infobox|Featured image=[[File: My-road-to-optimal-health-and-lifespan.jpg|frameless|250px]] | Date= 2016/06/27 |Event '''''My Road to Optimal Health and Lifespan''''' is a ''Show & Tell talk'' by [[Michael Lus
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• Getting started with personal science
  ...th wiki syntax|''Getting started with wiki syntax'']] ''for details on how to use this wiki.'' ...ersonal scientists and is a living guide, which means that you are invited to edit and improve this article as well.
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• Walking the Talk: How to do QS
  '''''Walking the Talk: How to do QS''''' is a ''Show & Tell talk'' by [[Richard Ryan ]] that has been im ...electronic neuro-stimulation device that has been clinically demonstrated to produce therapeutic effects for a variety of conditions such as insomnia an
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• Achieving the Good Life via Positive Psychology-Based QS
  ...ance the vitality and vital engagement of our lives and ultimately lead us to the "good life".</blockquote> Hi guys, my name is Jeff Fajans and today I’m going to share with you a yearlong tracking project, achieving the good life via pos
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• Decisions and Experimentation in the Quantified Self
  ...personally even although I’ve got a decade or more training as a scientist to take an example and apply it in my own context. ...nce the research and development process. And I realized I was never going to graduate going down that road.
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• Felt Routines
  ...everyday life. He hopes that the concept of felt routines is very integral to that theory.</blockquote> ...ay from so this may be a little loose, a little rough, but what I’m hoping to do is provide a review so we can have some conversations about how it may a
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• Every Heart Beat
  ...had kind of been speculating the other day, actually with my cardiologist to and I said – who is also an MIT engineering graduate and say, gee, can we ...as an engineer and a futurist, I’m here really speculating on what’s going to happen with the 24/7 heart monitoring, which we’re just starting.
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• SenseOS
  ...se psychological theory, active and passive sensing, and a therapy gateway to treat and improve depression.</blockquote> Thank you very much Mark, and thank you for inviting me. I’m really honored to speak here. Maybe a quick show of hands before Matt sets up the presentatio
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• Self-Experiments With Sleep, Cognition, and Fasting
  ...Mind website. In this video, Ari talks about using Zeo and Quantified Mind to measure effects of sleep on cognition, and shows fascinating data about lac ...ways been interested in cognitive science and data science so I decided to track myself, both my sleep using a Zeo and my mental performance using a program
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• Meta-Effects of Happiness Tracking
  ...thinking about how he thought about his own happiness and what that meant to him. In this talk, he shares his experience, some of the data he gathered, ...ng you to rate your own happiness right now in this moment on a scale of 1 to 10. Raise your hands if you come up with a number like seven or six or eigh
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• My Headaches From Tracking Headaches
  ...ng headaches would be an easy task. But the very first question turned out to be less straightforward than it seemed: What counts as a headache?</blockqu ...hes, and actually found out there’s actually very few which was a surprise to me.
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• Unobtrusive Smart Environments for Monitoring in Everyday Life
  ...ell. And in order to sell you have to find customers and of course ou have to identify the needs of the customers. ...fitness we have some problems, regarding the lifestyle it’s very difficult to change behavioral. And regarding the medical diagnosis we also have problem
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• Social Studies
  ...s a collaboration platform for group health science, enabling participants to design and operate scientific health studies. In this video, Eri talks abou ...Quantified Self but Quantified Us, so I pushed the boundaries a little bit to make it not just about an individual, because we’ve already talked about
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• Putting Numbers to Sleep
  Show and Tell Infobox|Featured image=[[File: Putting-numbers-to-sleep.jpg|frameless|250px]] | Date= 2015/02/02 |Event name= Bay Area Meetup '''''Putting Numbers to Sleep''''' is a ''Show & Tell talk'' by [[Maria Benet]] that has been impor
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• The Effects of a Year in Ketosis
  ...d a venture capital group of a crop protection company, and my sister said to me, "_x001D_You know, some of that corn that you’re growing goes into hig ...ed into sugar, isn’t just empty calories, it has a negative effect. I used to eat toast, jelly, and a banana for breakfast. That’s 75 grams of carbs th
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• Narratives Hidden in 20 Years of Personal Financial Data
  ...ery dollar he spent for 25 years. He began tracking in college in 1990 due to a fear that he might loose all of his money. In this talk, Peter shares the ...information on every dollar I spent, and I discovered a significant depth to financial data beyond just numbers. So why did I do this?
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• How I Zapped My Brain With A 9v Battery To Overcome Analysis Paralysis
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• Tracking Ketones
  ...s in his blood while he follows a ketogenic diet. He compares his findings to a colleague who follows the same diet and learns that their bodies react di My name is Mark Moschel and my presentation is not on the screens. I’m going to be talking about ketones and the ketogenic diet. So, I’ve tried a lot of
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• Reasons for and against self tracking and quantification
  ...ased off an argument map.<ref>https://www.kialo.com/everyone-should-health-track---self-quantify-49787</ref> If you are not convinced by argument, please re ==== Contribute to science ====
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• To Teach Quantified Self, First Know Thyself
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• Quantifying My Mental and Experiential State
  ...mething major has changed its obvious from the number and it motivates you to improve. So it appears on my website and glancible devices and so forth. ...harts per day, there is a higher resolution, and we’re going to drill down to next is the mental and how that’s measured.
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• The Future of Wearable Sensors - From Quantifying Behavior to Quantifying Health
  ...red image=[[File: The-future-of-wearable-sensors-from-quantifying-behavior-to-quantifying-health.jpg|frameless|250px]] | Date= 2013/05/12 |Event name= 20 '''''The Future of Wearable Sensors - From Quantifying Behavior to Quantifying Health''''' is a ''Show & Tell talk'' by [[Marco Altini]] that
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• What's My Indoor Environment Like?
  <blockquote>Bob Troia wanted to better understand the risks and the negative health effects caused by poor ...ith simple solutions (i.e. open a window when you sleep to reduce the Co2) to help keep one's indoor environment healthier. </blockquote>
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• QS Adventures with my Kids
  ...designed tracking games for him and his son. One of them involved putting things away in the house while tracking steps and gaining “clean-up points.” I ...ler. I have very strong qualifications; I’m a father. That’s all I’m going to list here, a father of two children, Luka who is six and Annie who is turni
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• Parkinson's Tracking Update
  ...using different tools to understand and improve his life. Watch this talk to see how he’s progressing.</blockquote> My long-term goals are to win the fight, all 12 rounds hopefully if I don’t knock it out before. Th
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• Why I Weighed My Whiskers
  ...of a variance in his testosterone. To test this hypothesis, Jon attempted to measure the growth rate of his beard. In this talk, he shares how he approa ...d they get tailored advice based on how they are feeling, but I’m not here to talk about that today.
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• Brain Optimization
  <blockquote>After his grandma started to show signs of dementia in 1982, Ken Snyder became interested in knowing mor ...fully you’ve enjoyed seeing it at times, but this is an opportunity for me to tell the story about what I’ve been doing.
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• Cholesterol Levels While Nursing
  ...fully got in line to volunteer some of my blood for what was clearly going to be super important. ...at one would call abysmal, but it was higher remembered it being which due to my feelings about phlebotomy had kind of been a while.
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• Personal Comfort
  ...ferences for their environments and they are doing it with QS tools. Watch to learn some of their findings. </blockquote> ...o mention there are a few places where I found Stefano’s accent a bit hard to transcribe - Alex
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• Financial Tracking
  ...ngs about myself back in 2009, I started doing financial, and then I moved to goal resolutions, food, food composition, and the last thing I’ve been tr ...technology has also improved over time, so it’s much much more easy for me to do it now.
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• Learning about Biases and Gaps in my Self-Collected Data
  ...st patterns. It also helped her identify some habits that she really needs to change.</blockquote> ...tterns. But it’s also helped me to identify some habits that I really need to change.
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• New Media Medicine
  ...to improve the healthcare experience using technology that allows patients to play a bigger role in crafting their own treatment.</blockquote> ...w of those questions and ones that I’m especially interested in in are how to use data for behaviour change and then also some of the questions that were
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• Self Tracking Awareness and Change
  ...ks about how self-tracking leads to self-awareness, which ultimately leads to profound change in people’s lives. </blockquote> ...ou about how self-tracking leads to self-awareness, which ultimately leads to profound change in people’s lives.
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• The Coffee Experiment
  ...ally like, I’ve seen this before, but hopefully I’ll have a few new things to add because the story is a lot longer than the one I’ve told in the past; ...ng me my first cup of coffee at that age because the small was so enticing to me.
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• This Is What I Ate
  ...ing habit. So for her first ever New Year's resolution, she wanted to keep track of what she eats. She started sharing photos of her food and drinks daily o ...in that sense. And I I’ve been doing research on that and I’ve been trying to learn from that.
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• Lessons From Food Tracking
  ...to eat more. She used the Eatery, a crowd sourcing helpfulness rating app to help with her tracking. In this talk, she discusses the lessons she learned ...our physical existence and I was like oh that is so painful to tell QS’ers to start tracking data.
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• Flash Cards as Cognitive Test
  ...he data that [[Anki]] records because I expected electronic flashcard data to be useful as a [[Tools for Cognitive Testing|continuous cognitive test]]. I ...dying by illustrating success in different way than existing apps, similar to gamification.
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• Repairing My Gut After Travel
  ...traveling in Ecuador and embarks on a journey to heal his gut. He attempts to discover how giardia and antibiotics impact the health of his gut.</block My name is Mark Moschel, and like I was saying, I’m going to be talking about poop in this talk. So it was fitting that it comes after a
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• The Quantified Double Self: A Tale of Twins
  ...story by exploring genetic testing, additional biomarkers, and are looking to incorporate activity and microbiome data in the future.</blockquote> Is the Quantified Self determined by your genes? Just like in life I like to believe that we have control of our fate. But is it really possible?
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• Quantifying The Effects Of Microaggressions
  <blockquote>Jordan Clark used his heart rate variability (HRV) data to measure psychological effects of microaggressions as part of his research q Today I’m talking about quantifying microaggression and to quote interesting to talk about agency. And really that’s what this whole thing is about is us
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• Input/output
  <blockquote>Robert Calrsen wanted to lose a bit of weight, to get back to his days when he was an amateur bike racer. In this talk, he shares his wei ...or a little while, but I’m not going to talk about that tonight, I’m going to be talking about the weight tracking experience that I’ve been engaged in
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• Three Marathons On Zero Calories
  ...ar can we go using our fat as fuel? Mikey Sklar used a wide array of tools to guide his training for running 76 miles in less than 24 hours without the u ...five years. I’ve been in ketosis for the last three years, and my goal was to run 100 miles in less than 24 hours without the use of any calories.
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• Reverse Mood Tracking
  ...oom. To check his hypothesis he would make a probing statement or question to see if his perception was indeed accurate. </blockquote> ...urselves, track it, analyze it, and get insight into who we are. And those things maybe cutting edge like this or they may be as apparently simple as mood t
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• Self Knowledge Through Textile-Based Sensing
  ...alks about how she got into Quantified Self and how she used self-tracking to inspire her research project.</blockquote> ...used self-tracking to inspire my research project and hopefully contribute to it a little bit as well.
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• What Causes My Heart Rhythm Disorder
  ...is in epidemiology and I teach evidence-based medicine. And what I’m going to talk about today is out of my clinical area, and it’s my story about my h ...pid, uncontrollable heartbeat. My heartbeat went from 100 beats per minute to about 225 and they lasted for about five minutes. And you know, understanda
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• What Causes my Heart Rhythm Disorder?
  ...ts can be more scientifically valid than many of his colleagues would like to admit.</blockquote> ...iversity of Washington and my Ph.D. is in epidemiology, but what I’m going to talk about today is out of my clinical area and it’s my story about my he
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