Personal Dashboard - QS Show & Tell #33
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Creating my Personal Dashboard
Me: Philip I. Thomas Site: philipithomas.com Twitter: @philipithomas Email: [email protected] Slides: philipithomas.com/quantified-self/
About Me
• Software Engineer at OpenDNS • Recent WUSTL graduate
(Systems Engineering + Physics)
• From Cleveland • OpenLate Meetup • Salsa Dancing, Operations Research
Project
Visualizing the data from my life with a personal dashboard
Agenda
• History • What I did • How I did it • What I learned
History
23 and Me
23 and Me
What I did
Inspiration: KPI Dashboards
at OpenDNS
Create a dashboard for my life
What if I make my dashboard public?
How I did it
APIs: outsourced quantified self
Data exists
But the cool stuff isn’t obvious
API of APIs
Database
API
Stack
What I learned
Collecting my own data is hard.
Apps already collect data about me
Visualization makes quantifying myself fun
Project
Visualizing the data from my life with a personal dashboard
Agenda
• History • What I did • How I did it • What I learned
Creating my Personal Dashboard
Me: Philip I. Thomas Site: philipithomas.com Twitter: @philipithomas Email: [email protected] Slides: philipithomas.com/quantified-self/