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Friday, September 16, 2016 at 11:41am and last updated
Friday, September 16, 2016 at 12:32pm.
Quantified Self Show&Tell Talks (w/ QS co-founder Gary Wolf)
There will be someone at the 2nd Ave entrance to let you in. Take the elevator to the 5th floor. If you need help, call 503-985-6627
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Please join us for a night of conversation on self tracking and monitoring where you share ideas, tools and experiments with the Portland Quantified Self community.
This is a special meeting for we will be joined by Gary Wolf, the co-founder of Quantified Self and Sara Riggare, a QS community member from Sweden and person with Parkinson's.
This event is occurring just before the World Parkinson Congress, which we are lucky to be having in Portland this year. To kick it off, Sara is having her own event on Sunday , 9/18) focused specifically on using QS to manage Parkinson's.
If you are self tracking in any way – life logging, biometrics, athletic performance, mood, sleep, medical symptoms, happiness, energy, etc. – come and share your methods, results and insight.
Here's our agenda:
•Informal Social Time - Starting at 6pm
Come early to socialize with other QSers and share what hardware, apps, and other technologies you are currently finding useful.
•Intro and Announcements - 6:15 sharp!
We'll have a round of introductions, and Gary Wolf will kick off the evening.
•Presentations - 6:30 to 7:30
• Lillian Karabaic - My Quantified Self Zine
• Sara Riggare - Using Data to Manage Parkinson's
• Hobson Lane - NLP Sentiment Analysis of My Daily Journal
• Steven Jonas - Learning to Like New Music With Spaced Repetition
•Post-talks Social Time - 7:30 to 8 pm
After some amazing presentations, we will have some time to converse with those around us.
*Where our talks come from: Our talks come from you! Do you have a personal self-tracking story to share? Please let us know in your RSVP. You can let the three prime questions guide your presentation: What did you do? How did you do it? What did you learn?
Here are some examples from previous Quantified Self events: http://vimeo.com/groups/quantifiedself/videos/27380858 http://vimeo.com/28734230
Our thanks to Kyoko and Kaitlynn at Puppet and for lending us this space.