Awesome Quantified Self
Carefully curated list of awesome Quantified Self resources.
The Quantified Self is a movement to incorporate technology into data acquisition on aspects of a person's daily life in terms of inputs (e.g. food consumed, quality of surrounding air), states (e.g. mood, arousal, blood oxygen levels), and performance (mental and physical).
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Contents
- Websites and Resources
- Applications and Platforms
- Devices and Wearables
- Research and Data Analysis
- Open Source Projects
Websites and Resources
- Quantified Self - Official website.
- Flowing Data - Self surveillance and quantification news.
- Wolfram Connected Devices Project - IoT and Quantified Self device list.
Articles & Blogs
- The Personal Analytics of My Life by Stephen Wolfram - Stephen Wolfram explores the data he has collected on the use of his time.
- Measured Me - Personal experiment in self-quantification and self-optimization.
- Lifestream Blog - Social data aggregation, lifelogging, Quantified Self and digital legacy.
- Quantified Bob - Follow one guy's quest for self knowledge, betterment, and optimization through experimentation and personal analytics.
- Shadow of the Stream - Quantified Self, lifelogging, journaling, education.
- QS on Medium - Quantified Self posts on Medium.
- QS on Venture Beat - Quantified Self articles on Venture Beat.
- QS on Wired - Quantified Self articles on Wired.com.
- QS on LiveScience - Quantified Self articles on LiveScience.
- Gwern - Esoteric blog which includes blinded self-experiments & Quantified Self analyses amongst other topics.
- beepb00p - Writing about Quantified Self, owning the data and building the infrastructure.
- QS Experiments - Science-based approach for Quantified Self, sharing raw data and analysis, modelling physical processes, health trackers comparison and analysis.
Books
- Your life, uploaded: The digital way to better memory, health, and productivity (2010) - Gordon Bell & Jim Gemmell
- The Quantified Self (2016) - Deborah Lupton
- Self-Tracking (2016) - Gina Neff & Dawn Nafus
- Everyday Data Science (2021) - Andrew N Carr (cheaper PDF version)
Talks
- Ted Talk: The Quantified Self - Ted talk by Gary Wolf on the Quantified Self movement.
- Tedx Talk: Wearable Tech Expands Human Potential - Lauren Costantini explores what it means to be human in the age of the Quantified Self.
- Don't Unplug!!! How Technology Saved My Life and Can Save Yours Too - A keynote by Chris Dancy ("the Most Connected Man on Earth") in which he explores how technology helped him become a better person by paying attention to the data he collected about his life.
Applications and Platforms
Fitness
- Runkeeper - Outdoor fitness activity tracker (iOS & Android).
- Runtastic - Running, cycling, and fitness GPS tracker (iOS & Android).
- Strava - Athletic activity tracking and social network.
- Gym Hero - Track workouts, strength training and other fitness exercise (iOS, Web)
- OpenTracks - Privacy-respecting offline-capable fitness activity tracker (Android).