QSEU14 Breakout: Mapping Data Access
Today’s post comes to us from Dawn Nafus and Robin Barooah. Together they led an amazing breakout session at the 2014 Quantified Self Europe Conference on the topic of understanding and mapping data...
View ArticleQSEU14 Breakout: Open Privacy
Today’s post comes to us from Laurie Frick. Laurie led a breakout session at the 2014 Quantified Self Europe Conference that opened up a discussion about what it would mean to be able to access all the...
View ArticleQS | Public Health Symposium: Jason Bobe on Participant Centered Research
As part of the Quantified Self Public Health Symposium, we invited a variety of individuals from the research and academic community. These included visionaries and new investigators in public health,...
View ArticleDownloading Fitbit Data: Update
We’re posting a quick note today to let you know that we’ve updated our “How To Download Your Fitbit Data” post. It now included separate instructions for both the old and new versions of Google...
View ArticleQS Access: Exporting Uber Trip Data?
Quantified Self Labs is dedicated to the idea that data access matters. Moving forward, we’re going to be exploring different aspects of how data access affects our personal and public lives. Stay...
View ArticleQS Access: Backing up HealthKit Data
As you may know, we’re very interested in how HealthKit is shaping and extending the reach of personal self-tracking data. Last week, during Apple’s quarterly earnings call, Tim Cook mentioned that...
View ArticleQS Access: Personal Data Freedom
We are happy to welcome this guest post by Madeleine Ball. Madeleine is the Senior Research Scientist at PersonalGenomes.org, co-founder of the upcoming Open Humans project, and the Director of...
View ArticleWhat We Are Reading
We hope you enjoy this week’s What We’re Reading list! Articles The Wow of Wearables by Joseph Kvedar. An excellent post here in the wake of the “Smartphones vs. Wearables” hype in the past weeks....
View ArticleWhat is in My Gut?
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...
View ArticleAnnouncing the QS Access Program
Self-knowledge through numbers. Personal meaning from personal data. These are the guiding principles of the work we do here at Quantified Self Labs. Through our editorial work, our events, and our...
View ArticleWhat We Are Reading
Hello again! Here we are with another list of articles, links, and visualizations for you. Enjoy! QS15 Reactions We’ve started to see a few great blog posts and articles describing the experience of...
View ArticleOur Data, Our Health: Thoughts on using mHealth for the Precision Medicine...
On January 30th, President Obama announced the funding of a possibly groundbreaking research program — The Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI). Launched with a $215 million investment in the...
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