James Stout on Diabetes, Exercise, and QS
James Stout is a professional cyclist. He also has Type 1 Diabetes. In this Show & Tell, James explains how self-tracking has empowered him to understand himself and be a role model for others....
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Numbers From Around the Web: Round 8
If you have diabetes, or know someone who does, you’ve probably encountered a blood glucose monitor. Like many medical devices, design and data visualization are usually an afterthought. While there...
View ArticleJana Beck on Learning from over 100,000 Blood Glucose Readings
Jana Beck was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when she was 19 years old and has been interested in tracking her health ever since. Last year when she received a continuous blood glucose monitor she...
View ArticleBrooks Kincaid: A Diabetic Experiment with Self-Quantification
Brooks Kincaid has been tracking his blood glucose continuously for the past two years, after 16 years of finger pricking and guessing. In the video below, Brooks openly shares what he has learned...
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What We Are Reading
Here’s some great pieces from around the web to get your mind working and give you some insight into what we find interesting and compelling. The Diabetes Paradox by Thomas Goetz: A fascinating look at...
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Doug Kanter on Data, Diabetes, and Marathon Training
Doug Kanter has been a Type 1 diabetic for 26 years. Through this time he’s come to learn more about his disease by using many data-gathering tools and his own work in visual analysis at the NYU ITP...
View ArticleDoug Kanter: A Year Of Diabetes Data
The complex relationship between behavior and diabetes control has long been a testing ground for gathering and making sense of personal data. Doug Kanter is a Type-1 diabetic who’s been thinking about...
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QS Gallery: Doug Kanter
Doug Kanter shared this beautiful and unique visualization of his blood glucose with us. Be sure to take a peak at his other great visualizations and his wonderful talk at the 2013 Quantified Self...
View ArticleVivienne Ming on Tracking Her Son’s Diabetes
Vivienne Ming is an accomplished neuroscientist and entrepreneur. When she’s not conducting research or working on new ideas she’s busy taking care of her son Felix. Two years ago Felix was diagnosed...
View ArticleJana Beck on Visualizing Her Diabetes Data
As you may know, we get excited when someone in our community uses interesting data visualizations to help tell their self-tracking story. Jana Beck is no exception. As a woman living with Type 1...
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What We Are Reading
Another collection of thought-provoking items from around the web. Articles & Posts Plan to move from #quantified self to Qualified Self by Inga de Waard. Every now and then someone writes...
View ArticleConference 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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