Boston QS #8: Measurements, Big and Small

Our last Quantified Self meetup of the year will be taking place, next Tuesday, on December 6th. We're being graciously hosted by UbiqiHealth at their coworking facility WorkBar, in Boston; thanks to them for making this happen! This meetup is going to focus on different ways of making measurements and analysing on data. It'll be a mix of a few personal stories about collecting biometrics, as well as a few bigger picture approaches. --- Specifically... 1 . Max Little (https://www.maxlittle.... (https://www.maxlittle.net)) from the MIT Media Lab will be presenting some of his work in researching Parkinson's disease. One of his interests is coming up with new mathematical tools for doing studies that reflect the individual variation in different cases of Parkinson's. He's looked at the tools of weather forecasting (!) as a way to find statistical measures that capture more information about variation. 2. Jake Hoppe (https://www.eidosearch... (https://www.eidosearch.com/team/)) will be demoing his work at EidoSearch. EidoSearch is a tool which lets users identify visual patterns in data, and search the dataset for that same pattern. EidoSearch is being used, naturally, in the financial sector, but they're now reaching out and looking for health data sets to apply their algorithsm to. 3. And Gil Blander of InsideTracker (https://www.insidetrac... (https://www.insidetracker.com/)) will be talking about his company's blood analysis system. InsideTracker lets its users do a basic blood panel and get nutritional recommendations based on that analysis. --- So Tues., Dec. 6th, starting at 7 pm. I hope to see you there! Michael