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Last month a give a small talk around the Quantified Self and how it fits into the education:

What amazed me was that the room was full of inspiring people designing stuff for the 'now', thus implementing it only when the future is already happening. Nevertheless I'm sure some good things will follow because people are aware and the connectedness helps solving these things.

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Software is not all there is, I'm diving into hardware! For the last month a lot of electronics have passed my hands, including sensors, arduinos and others. I've been given a Makey Makey by Loes and now doing a hardware project in collaboration with Setup and it involves this big red button:

I'll try my best to keep you posted of my hardware adventures!

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I've spend past weekend enjoying what I do most, submerge in a community driven event, to come out two days later sleep deprived but full with ideas and enthusiasm. As one of the organisers of the conference you might think that it's a though thing to do, coordinating it all, but with a wonderful group of people from america and the QS Amsterdam team it was a blast! The atmosphere of the group was really great and we had almost 300 people at the venue. continue reading...

Just two quick bits of newsworthy stuff I wanted to share with you since I got back from Italy (which was really wonderful!):

I gave a small interview about big-data for the dutch television programme Bedrijf in Beeld. Quite happy with the result:

Also, we reached the local dutch newspaper De Spits. The Quantified Self was mentioned by the Rode Kater, a famous little comic:

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When Panic released their Statusboard app and I discovered it was possible to use JSON and html to embed it into pages, my mind raced with ideas about what to build. Both the Zeo and Fitbit API offer JSON output thus could be embeddable. To give a quick overview what it looks like with dummy data embedded, have a look at the following image: The next step is to implement a simple server side script that shapes and caches the JSON data in the correct format. continue reading...

Together with Heinze I've guided and taught several students from the Hogeschool van Amsterdam about data and data-visualisation. In 3 days packed with GPS-trackers, stories, examples and code we've made some interesting visualisations. Some were shown in Carre during the education conference organised by the Hogeschool van Amsterdam. Thanks Captain Video for the awesome setup with a cube: Ofcourse I've also made my own data-visualisation. The data consists of minute-by-minute data available trough the Fitbit data API. continue reading...

SETUP is holding a competition to get programming known as modern day craftwork. I whole-fully agree to this and decided to enter the contest! With a small part of my time spend while traveling I and finally finishing up I've gotten my last version up and running. I use javascript and D3 (SVG) for drawing the elements as this is a library that I wanted to explore. The ease of use and adoption rate of it made a good starting point for me to quickly get to a result. continue reading...

On sunday evening, the VPRO aired a new episode of Labyrint, a show for popular science. This episode included coverage of the Quantified Self and an interview with me (in dutch)! I've included the video for you to watch below:

I'm very happy with the end result! As tracking becomes more ubiquitous more people will start to use it.

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On the 7th of February I gave my first Pecha Kucha talk. Together with Jan-Henk Bouman we introduced the crowd (around 100 people) into the world of QS. With a geek to non-geek dialogue we kept our pace trough our 6:40 of fame. The video is below (in dutch):

Watch the Permanent Beta meetup group for upcoming events about The Quantified Self!

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Without further comments, all my 8:36pm photo moments collected during 2012, stitched together in a movie:

All I can say is, thanks to all the people who made 2012 an awesome year! I'm sure 2013 is going to be the same!

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