Quantifiedself.com Website Review

Exactly ten years ago, at an early Quantified Self meetup, Joe Betts-La Croix expressed “three wishes” for tools to make data it there, eventually allowing other people to upload tools for an*lysis so we could do interesting things with the data, like run statistical an*lysis, or simply graph it. Joe wanted something extremely simple. data automatically, a blood pressure monitor, and a blood glucose monitor. It’s interesting to look back on this from exactly ten years and ask: To what extent have these wishes come true? What turned out to be The Quantified Self Conference was held on September 22nd and 23rd in Portland, Oregon. Over the two days of the conference we had over eighty talks, presentations, and breakout discussions about self-tracking, everyday science, and “self-knowledge through numbers.”  Over the next few weeks we will be posting videos, slides and notes, but for now let us just say thank you so much to everybody who attended and made this meeting possible. To see QS18 related posts on Twitter, look for #QS18. QS18 PREVIEW: MAP YOUR OVULATORY CYCLE WITH CONTINUOUS BODY TEMPERATURE. Surprisingly little of the attention and funding turned to personalized, predictive, preventative medicine has focused on the female reproductive system: pregnancy onset cannot be quickly identified, menopause onset and trajectory remain entirely mysterious, and adverse reactions to tools like hormonal birth control are difficult to anticipate. Importantly, there are no automated, cheap, high-accuracy methods for predicting ovulation in the diverse population of cycling people. Existing methods are based on once-daily measurement of basal body temperature (BBT). These are prone to sampling error, unreliable for people with irregular ovulatory cycles, and make use of only one minute out of the 1440 available as data points per day. Although some pricey new devices aim to tackle the pitfalls of BBT via more frequent measurement, they mostly hold their an*lytical techniques as company secrets, making their estimations