Presentation given at Quantified Self Berlin on 22 Nov 2012.

1. QS Berlin
22 November 2012
The Quantified Self
Steven Dean
@sgdean

6. My start

8. BLUE! BLUE-! YELLOW-! YELLOW! ORANGE! ORANGE-
GREEN! GREEN! BROWN!
Rate of spilling sugar!

9. 48

13. 68 67 66
42
RESTING HEART RATE

14. QS as a disciplined
practice.

15. Sep 1, 2011
8:30 am

16. Sep 2, 2011
8:00 am

17. Sep 6, 2011
7:13 am

18. Sep 8, 2011
8:05 am

19. Forms in Google Docs

26. QS and personal science

27. Seth’s Blog
self-experimentation

28. The Quantified Self blog
launches 2007

29. September 2008

30. October 2008

31. New York QS
June 2009

36. Mimi O. Chun
mimiochun.see.me

38. daytum.com

43. Nicholas Felton
feltron.com

45. The Quantified Self
Over 70 meetups
Over 10,000 members
Over 300 videos

47. memory calories genomics
weight steps diabetes
cognition goals breathing
exercise relationships allergies
food words hearing loss
mood silence stress
sleep arguments placebos
time sex dating
money dreams happiness
location books read ...

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

49. QS show & tell talks

51. How visualizing health
problems could help
solve medical
mysteries

54. 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.

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

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

66. Laurie Frick
lauriefrick.com

74. If we can measure it,
we can improve it.

75. Walter De Brouwer

76. Thank you.
Steven Dean
steven@prehype.com
twitter.com/sgdean