Quantify Thyself, then Go Forth & Conquer with a Personal Life API

Elmer ThomasHacker in Residence@thinkingserious

If you had access to all the data the NSA has collectedabout you via API, what would you build?

Our goal is to liberate, normalize, analyze and execute

on YOUR data

The Personal API gives you a uniform interface

to YOUR data

Determine what data to quantifyChoose how we will quantify

Build the APIInnovate on top of the API with apps

Step 1

Determine what data to quantify

Define the areas of your life you want to improve

For each area, define S.M.A.R.T. goals

Step 2

Choose how we will quantify the data we need

Use our S.M.A.R.T. goal to identify the data

How do we access and store the data?

Step 3

Build the API

/v1.0/health/goal/v1.0/health/weight/v1.0/health/calories/v1.0/health/sleep/v1.0/health/stress

Create a prototype using APIary.io

Build the API using Python/Flask

What will you do with the data?

Apps!

Determined what data to quantifyChose how we will quantify

Built the APIInnovated on top of the API with apps

“If you can not measure it, you can not improve it”

- Lord Kelvin

@thinkingseriousaka Lord Elmer

Let’s go further

bit.ly/apithyself