Quantified Help: Self-Tracking for Newbies

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Quantified Help:Self-Tracking for Newbies

Zach Grove

My Story

January 2012:

Quanti-phobe (noun) - a person with an irrational

fear of math

Quora.com/Quantified-Self

Quora.com/Quantified-Self

Quora.com/Quantified-Self

Quora.com/Quantified-Self

• Regressions Analysis (Excel)

• Pivot Table (Excel)

• R

• Wolfram Alpha Pro

• Mathcad

• Mathematica

I'm not alone..."44% of trackers say they track data

solely in their heads."

http://www.pewinternet.org/Presentations/2013/Jun/Health-Datapalooza.aspx

Our Plea• Help me make data analysis not scary

• Find insights in the data

• Blog

Can you help me?• English-speaking

• Taipei

• Can mine data for relationships in:

*Regressions Analysis (Excel)

*Pivot Table (Excel)

*R

What I can offer:• Lunch in Taipei, on me

• Full credit and links to your page in an upcoming QS blog post: "Hack

Your Life: How to Step-by-Step Track Your Daily Sleep, Mood,

Productivity, and Weather to Uncover Your Hidden Insights with Zero

Math Anxiety"

• Designs to resume self-tracking and do a QS Show and Tell at the 2014

Quantified Self Europe Conference (quantifiedself.com) preaching the

benefits of self-tracking.

Zach Grovezprgrove@gmail.com