Conference Preview: Bob Troia on Tracking Blood Glucose
We’ve learned a lot from the diabetics in our community, such as Jana Beck’s lessons from 100,000+ blood glucose readings, and Doug Kanter’s narrative visualizations of a year of his diabetes data. At...
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Diabetes, Metabolism, and the Quantified Self
This is a visualization of one month of my blood sugar readings from October 2012. I see that my control was generally good, with high blood sugars happening most often around midnight (at the top of...
View ArticleAlex Collins on Managing Type 1 Diabetes
Last year Alex Collins was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Prior to his diagnosis Alex was frequently engaged in different types of exercise and physical activity. After his diagnosis his doctor...
View ArticleStefan Hoevenaar: My Father, A Quantified Diabetic
Stefan Hoovenar’s father had Type 1 Diabetes. As a chemist, he was already quite meticulous about using data and those habits informed how he tracked and made sense of his blood sugar and insulin data....
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What We Are Reading
We hope you enjoy this week’s list! Articles Big Data in the 1800s in surgical science: A social history of early large data set development in urologic surgery in Paris and Glasgow by Dennis J Mazur....
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Do It Yourself Diabetes
Dana Lewis and Scott Leibrand are the creators of the amazing “Do-It-Yourself-Pancreas-System,” also known by #DIYPS. We had a few question for them. Ernesto: Why build your own pancreas? Dana: I’ve...
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What We Are Reading
We hope you enjoy this week’s selection of links, show&tell posts, and visualizations! Articles Hacking Your Brain by The Economist. Increasing performance and cognitive functioning, reducing...
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What We Are Reading
Ernesto is in sunny Austin for SXSW, so I’m filling in to gather this week’s articles and links for your reading pleasure. Articles Apple ResearchKit concerns, potential, analysis by MobiHealthNews....
View ArticleAlice Pilgram: My Journey with Diabetes
In 2008 Alice Pilgram was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Faced with numerous life changes and having to now track multiple pieces of data, she started to feel overburdened. In this talk, presented at...
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Diabetes Data For All
Howard Look is the Founder and CEO of Tidepool, a non-profit, open source development organization dedicated to reducing the burden of type 1 diabetes by building a platform that can integrate all...
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