The Quantified Self

QS Berlin22 November 2012

Steven Dean @sgdean

My start

Rate of spilling sugar!

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RESTING HEART RATE

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QS as a disciplined practice.

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Forms in Google Docs

QS and personal science

Seth’s Blogself-experimentation

The Quantified Self bloglaunches 2007

September 2008

October 2008

New York QSJune 2009

Mimi O. Chun

mimiochun.see.me

daytum.com

Nicholas Felton

feltron.com

The Quantified SelfOver 70 meetupsOver 10,000 membersOver 300 videos

memoryweightcognitionexercisefoodmoodsleeptimemoneylocation

caloriesstepsgoalsrelationshipswordssilenceargumentssexdreamsbooks read

genomicsdiabetesbreathingallergieshearing lossstressplacebosdatinghappiness...

1. What did you do?2. How did you do it?3. What did you learn?

QS show & tell talks

How visualizing health problems could help solve medical mysteries

What Katie learned...•Antibiotics made her sicker.•Doctors are skeptical of

another patient-created graph.•But health visualizations can

be a great storytelling tool.•Memories are data too.

Would adopting a carbohydrate-restricted diet result in a statistically significant difference in blood glucose?

What Jana learned...•Statistically significant change• Took time to adjust insulin•Visualizations help a lot

Laurie Frick

lauriefrick.com

If we can measure it,we can improve it.

Walter De Brouwer

Thank you.

Steven Dean

steven@prehype.comtwitter.com/sgdean