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The Ultimate Guide to
The Quantified
Self
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What is the
Quantified Self?
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The Quantified Self is
about obtaining self-
knowledge through
self-tracking
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Self-tracking is also
referred to as lifelogging,
self-analytics, or self
hacking
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It’s all about acquiring
data about your life
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What kind of things
do people track?
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Mood
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Food
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Activity
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Productivity
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Sleep
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Weight
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And sometimes....
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The nasty stuff
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What’s the point?
Why track?
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“If you cannot measure
it, you cannot improve
it.” Lord Kelvin
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Businesses use data to
inform their decisions
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Self tracking is like that,
but for your life
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The data gives you
insights into how small
changes can make big
differences
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The data allows you to
make better decisions
and live a better life
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Did that cup of coffee
make you more
productive?
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You’d think so, right?
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You might be wrong...
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There’s no need to
guess
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Why is self-tracking
so interesting all of a
sudden?
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It isn’t new
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In fact, 69% of adults
in the US already track
a health metric
(Data from research by Pew)
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but most of them do it
manually or in their
heads
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Cheap sensors, cloud
computing, and other
technologies are
changing things
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Tracking now takes
less effort and is more
beneficial
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Some tools let you
track completely
passively
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Self-knowledge,
through doing
nothing!
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Popular Self
Tracking tools
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Mood
Moodlytics MoodPanda
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Food
MyFitnessPal
(Daily Burn)
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Activity
Run Keeper
Moves
FitBit
BodyMedia
Jawbone Up
Nike FuelBand
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Productivity
RescueTime
Time Doctor
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Sleep
SleepCycle
Zeo
Sleep as Android
FitBit
Jawbone Up
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Weight
Withings
FitBit
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Heart & Blood
BodyMedia
Basis
BlipCare
Cardiio
Mio
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Other Stuff
Period Tracker
Drink Tracker
Asthma Tracker
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General tracking
TicTrac
Microsoft Excel
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And of course...
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The nasty stuff
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This is just the
beginning
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Tracking is
becoming effortless
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and more valuable
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So watch this space
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