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Quantify Thyself, then Go Forth & Conquer with a Personal Life API Elmer Thomas Hacker in Residence @thinkingserious
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Learn how to expose all your quantified self data via a simple Life API. Use that data for tasks ranging from making real-time decisions to long term planning. The presentation/workshop is composed of the following three phases. Phase 1: Use techniques from Personal Productivity experts to identify what data is important to quantify. Phase 2: Create a template for helping us determine what tools, services and devices will automate (mostly) our data collection. Phase 3: Combine and expose our data behind a Life API. We will design the API using APIary.io and implement it using Python/Flask. At this point we will explore how we can use this API and put our data to work. To focus and make sure you all walk away with a tangible result within our allotted time, we will limit our scope to the area of health.
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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
