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Record your movements with AntiMap
AntiMap is an open source toolset that lets you record movements with your iPhone or Android phone. Originally developed as a way for snowboarders to record their movements and play the data back like...
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Own and securely store your location with OpenPaths
There are a lot of ways to collect your location, whether it's for journaling and personal reflection or for sharing with others, but it can be tricky making use of your data once it's stored behind...
View ArticleBasketball net will rate the force of dunks during Slam Dunk Contest
Sometimes power dunks don't get much credit, because it's hard to see on television how hard the ball was thrown down. The MIT Media Lab created a net to fix that, and we'll get to see it in action...
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Feltron Report 2010/2011 is out
When Nicholas Felton headed over to Facebook last year, I thought we'd seen the last of what's become an annual tradition, but it seems to be alive and well and still looking sexy. Felton, best known...
View ArticleKeeping track of yourself
The quantified self movement continues: This may sound creepy, but tens of thousands of patients around the world are already sharing information about symptoms and treatments for hundreds of...
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The personal analytics of Stephen Wolfram
Stephen Wolfram examines his archive of personal data from emails to keystrokes to phone calls, going all the way back to 1990. Above shows the hourly distribution of his activities. The overall...
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Personal map of 2.5m GPS data points, 3.5 years in the making
Aaron Parecki, co-creator of location platform Geoloqi, has collected his location every few seconds for over three years. He put his data on a map. Approximately one GPS point was recorded every 2-6...
View ArticleMissing Pieces
Leave it to Robert Krulwich to bring us back to life in the world of personal data. In reference to Stephen Wolfram's dive into emails, keystrokes, meetings, and phone calls: "It's amazing how much...
View ArticleUrban datasexual
Dominic Basulto parallels the urban metrosexual to those who collect personal data. The same cultural zeitgeist that gave us the metrosexual - the urban male obsessive about grooming and personal...
View ArticleMan takes picture of himself every day for 12 years
Remember photographer Noah Kalina? He took a picture of himself every day for six years and made a time-lapse video with the photos. The Simpsons even did a spoof that showed Homer's life over a couple...
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A fill-in-the-blank book to journal your life in graphs
My friends just got this for me, and it's pretty much the perfect gift, especially since my dissertation is about journaling and personal data collection. My Life in Graphs: A Guided Journal is a book...
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Over-the-top quantified self
Chris Dancy likes to track facets of his life. A lot. Above is a bunch of automatically logged data to Google Calendar. At the moment, he tracks everything he can, even if he doesn't see an immediate...
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Amiigo: The exercise tracker that identifies exercises
Self-tracking devices are all the rage these days. I went to the Apple store, and there was practically a whole wall of them. They were all uni-taskers though. There was one for cycling, another for...
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Feltron 2012 Annual Report
Today might be pi day, but yesterday was Feltron Report day. The theme this year is visual density — or maybe programmatic graphics. Either way, it looks mighty fine.
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Monitor your surroundings with these sensors
It wasn't long ago that sensors and personal tracking seemed like pure nerdery. In the early stages of graduate school — before smartphones were popular or even widely available — I played around with...
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Personal data for sale
NYU ITP graduate student Federico Zannier collected data about himself — online browsing, location, and keystrokes — for his thesis. As he dug into personal data more and looked closer at company...
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Quantified breakup
A recently divorced woman is using her personal data — phone logs, emails, chats, bank statements, and GPS traces — as her own way to cope with the new situation. Divorce is hard. Putting this process...
View ArticleWeightless Project uses personal tracker data to abate hunger and obesity
The Weightless Project gives you another reason to use your Jawbone or Fitbit that you got for Christmas this year (or to dig out the one you used for a week and forgot about). For every 1,000 calories...
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Reporter app, for self-discovery through data
Nicholas Felton, Drew Breunig, and Friends of the Web released Reporter for iPhone. The app—$3.99 on the app store—prompts you with quizzes, such as who you're with or what you're doing, sparsely...
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UP Coffee app helps you track and understand caffeine consumption
How much caffeine can you consume during the day and still fall asleep at night? For some, it's one cup and they're up all night, whereas others don't feel a thing. UP Coffee, an app from Jawbone Labs,...
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