Quantified Self
Automation, Visualization, and Analytics
Quantified Self is about data collection, feedback, and self development. I’ll go over tools that can help collect data and provide feedback.
I’ll be presenting some web automation tools and their recipes along with some tools to help track, display, and analyze that information.
A Typical QS Device Ecosystem
Klint Finley at WIRED in 2013
“IFTTT — and alternatives like the open source alternative Hugin or the business-oriented service Zapier — have become a standard part of the Quantified Self toolkit, letting users automate and analyze their lives. This sort of thing is creeping into businesses, too. For example, the Portland, Oregon based mobile design and development firm Citizen has been building a system to analyze the effects of everything from lighting to exercise on employee productivity.”
On Chris Dancy and Quantifed Self
“He tracks everything he can, even if he doesn’t see an immediate benefit, so long as it’s relatively easy to collect — and he can save the data into Evernote, Google Calendar, and Excel. You never know when something seemingly pointless will come in handy in the future...He calls this “knowledge lockering.” Dancy’s original knowledge locker was an Outlook PST file. Now, using online tools like IFTTT and Zapier, he saves all the content he creates and every articles he reads in Evernote.”
Web Databases/Knowledge Lockers
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Email - Email is the largest database most people own.
- Ask Me Every - http://www.askmeevery.com/
- Oh Life - http://ohlife.com/
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Facebook
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Twitter
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Instagram
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Dropbox
QS-Specific Web Databases:
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Daytum - http://daytum.com/
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MyFitnessPal - http://www.myfitnesspal.com/
Askmeevery
ohlife
daytum
myfitnesspal
Other Web Database Tools
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Ragic - http://www.ragic.com/
- Caserole - http://www.casserole.io/
- Excel - https://onedrive.live.com/
- Trello - https://trello.com
- Evernote - https://evernote.com/
- Google Spreadsheet - https://drive.google.com/
Web Automation Tools
Others:
Firebase, Cloudwork, Elastic.io, Foxweave, Cloudbees, We Wired Web, Tarpipe, Wappwolf, Yahoo! Pipes, Adeptia, Mulesoft, Itduzzit, Pipethru, Magic, and Fluxkraft.
IFTTT
IFTTT QS Recipes
- Foursquare: append check-in to text file in Dropbox
- Twitter: append tweet to text file in Dropbox
- App.net: append item to text file in Dropbox
- Facebook: append post to text file in Dropbox
- Instagram: append link to image in Dropbox
- iPhone photos: Dropbox Camera Upload
- iPhone screenshots: Dropbox Camera Upload
- new iPhone contacts: append contacts to Dropbox text
- last.fm: append to text in Dropbox
- iOS Reminders: append to text file in Dropbox
- Email: save Gmail in Dropbox by appending to text file
- Withings: start devices automatically when you weigh in
zapier
zapier "zaps'
- Email: Archive Gmail to Evernote
- Evernote: RSS to Evernote
- Twitter: Archive Tweets to Google Spreadsheet
- Texts: Text Twitter mentions to cell phone
- Dashboards: Push Spreadsheet Data to a web dashboard tool like Ducksboard or Geckoboard
SALES/marketing automation tools
Related business tools that you may also use/integrate:
- Infusionsoft - http://www.infusionsoft.com/
- Marketo - http://www.marketo.com/
- Salesforce.com - http://www.salesforce.com/
- Eloqua - http://www.oracle.com/
- Ontraport - http://ontraport.com/
- Adobe Campaign - http://www.adobe.com/
- eTrigue - http://www.etrigue.com/
- Sitecore - http://www.sitecore.net/
- Teradata - http://www.teradata.com/
Infusionsoft
Web Dashboards
- Ducksboard - https://ducksboard.com/
- Geckoboard - http://www.geckoboard.com/
- Tableau - http://www.tableausoftware.com/
- Qlik - http://www.qlik.com/
- Microstrategy - http://www.microstrategy.com/
- Cognos - http://www.ibm.com/
- R - http://www.r-project.org/
- Librato - https://metrics.librato.com/
A QS Dashboard Example: http://measuredme.com/lifestream/
Ducksboard
Geckoboard
Measuredme lifestream
QS Visualization Tools
You might not want to wait until the end of the year for a report on what's happening in your life.
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TicTrac - https://www.tictrac.com/
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Nineteen - http://data.pollari.org/
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Daytum - http://daytum.com/
For making Feltron-type maps:
- Indiemapper - http://indiemapper.com/
- Mapbox/Tilemill - https://www.mapbox.com/
social media analytics
Social analytics can be another metric for quantified self.
- Twitter Specific
- Twitter Analytics - analytics.twitter.com
- Follower Wonk - followerwonk.com
- Twitonomy - twitonomy.com
- Pinterest Specific
- Statigram - statigr.am
- General Social Analytics
- Sprout Social - sproutsocial.com
- Hootsuite - hootsuite.com
- Buffer - bufferapp.com
Sprout social
twitonomy
Quantified Self
By Erich Stauffer
Quantified Self
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