Here's some updates on the little 'Personal API' Django app I made for getting some status updates in the footer of my website.
Here's some updates on the little 'Personal API' Django app I made for getting some status updates in the footer of my website.
As part of moving away from iOS, I've also replaced my Apple Watch with a Garmin device. Which means I'll have to figure out a way to get some of those data out to display it in my website footer!
Does anyone have a recommendation/existing solution for how to export small chunks of that data in regular intervals to an HTTP endpoint? Or will I have to learn how to use the Garmin API after all? 🙈
Revolutionizing Healthcare with Real-Time Monitoring and Frequency Therapy: A Personal Journey Through the TEHS Scrum Framework for Health and Performance: Twice the Energy with Half the Stress https://leanpub.com/tehs by Jeff Sutherland is the featured book on the Leanpub homepage! https://leanpub.com #Scrum #LifeCoaching #DietAndNutrition #PersonalScience #PersonalTransformation #books #ebooks
Find it on Leanpub!
My secret to above average fitness? Plateauing and then waiting to get old enough to get into a different age bracket. From below average to above average, by benefit of turning 40 😅
Alternatively, a cautionary tale about the limits of quantifying health and wellbeing.
«Symptom Radar works by evaluating metrics like resting heart rate, heart rate variability, temperature trends, and breathing rate to detect significant changes from your long-term baselines.»
Fun to see that Oura is now also using the approach we’ve come up with in the #personalscience community back in 2020 🙈 #quantifiedself
https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/5/24313465/oura-symptom-radar-illness-wearable-smart-ring
Had the “chance” to see the Apple Health Vitals in action. Can agree, I feel like crap. Interestingly, the watch only picked it up today, but I noticed some infection starting already yesterday.
Spend a bit of time today on updating the MediaWiki and extensions that are powering the #PersonalScience wiki at https://wiki.openhumans.org
There's nothing better to make you appreciate how brittle our technical infrastructures are. 🤣 More seriously: If anyone encounters issues, please drop me a line!
The magnum opus of Katharina's PhD thesis has now been published in Royal Society Open Science: «Co-designing a #wiki-based community knowledge management system for #personalscience»! 🎉
This article on potatoes also features the fun “All Potato Diet” #citizenscience effort!
“The pseudonymous science bloggers behind Slime Mold Time Mold are running an informal trial where they invite readers to try their own riffs on Chris Voigt’s potato-only diet. A few participants who ate only potatoes and dairy—almost a replica of the 19th-century Irish diet—reported that they’d lost weight over the month.”
https://www.wired.com/story/potatoes-are-the-perfect-vegetable-but-youre-eating-them-wrong/
Just looked at that “vitals” feature that the upcoming Apple Watch OS will have: Apparently it'll be based on if 2+ of your physiological metrics are outside the 'normal' range.
This seems like a good validation of my own "heuristic" approach that I made back in December 2022 (I’ve written up here later): https://tzovar.as/heuristic/
More details on the #personalscience wiki here: https://wiki.openhumans.org/wiki/A_heuristic_for_feeling_fine
«Peer Production in #CitizenScience: A Community-Centered Approach on the Example of #PersonalScience»
Super excited to see that Katharina's PhD thesis (which she successfully defended in November last year) is now available in full on HAL!
«Quantifying the self with others» looks at the particular #CitizenScience community that is #PersonalScience / #quantifiedself.
«This community cultivated useful conversations about personal health data, the sorts of participatory “reflection and dialogue” needed to achieve “a shared vision” for these technologies, through specific communication techniques that integrated personal and community goals or transcended them by marshalling an open science data imaginary.»
I wrote a small blog post about how I get (some) of my health metrics out of Apple Health to put it into my website's footer. And I used that as a good excuse to also update some pages in the #personalscience wiki. #quantifiedself
Some of our colleagues are running a week-long, online "Summer School on #PersonalScience" this July. 🏫
If you're interested in learning about this particular type of #citizenscience, give it a look: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7186331478006333441/
I replaced my Oura Ring with a non-smart band instead – which doesn't require being charged but is supposed to last a lifetime. 😂
This meant I had to adapt the data source in my website footer. Now it displays data from my smartwatch instead. Newest addition: environmental noise levels & time spent in daylight 🧛
As Monday morning might be a better time to share than Friday afternoons: Check out our latest preprint on creating a shared knowledge base for #selfresearch, #personalscience & #quantifiedself. Katharina did a really great job on co-designing and testing the "Personal Science Wiki" with practitioners to make sure it fits their mental models of the practice!
Read the preprint here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09799
#citizenscience @academicchatter @citizenscience
Friday afternoon maybe isn't the best time to share it, but I'm too excited! Our work on creating a shared knowledge base for self research & #quantifiedself is now up as a preprint:
«Co-Designing a wiki-based community knowledge management system for #personalscience»
Katharina – who defended her PhD in November – did amazing work on co-designing and user testing it with a wide range of practitioners! Read it here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09799
The Ultimate Lifestyle Transformation Bundle https://leanpub.com/b/the-ultimate-lifestyle-transformation-bundle by Tom Luma is the featured bundle on the Leanpub homepage! https://leanpub.com #PersonalTransformation #Selfhelp #FamilyAndParenting #PersonalScience #Diy #CraftsAndHobbies
There’s also a #PersonalScience cartoon! #CitSci4Health23 #quantifiedself
Now in a session on "#PersonalScience and Self-Tracking: Learning From Continuous Blood Glucose Data"