«Lessons in humility & simplicity for 'data science': Garmin's health status»

I blogged about how another #wearable manufacturer went down the road of leaving up data interpretation to humans instead of automating it – and how that relates to "AI" or "automated decision making"

(Responses to this toot become blog comments too)

https://tzovar.as/garmin-health-status/

#quantifiedself #personalscience

Our #personalscience wiki got a lot of LLM-generated spam posts in the past days, so it's once again time to rotate the captcha questions.

How has some fun ideas for questions "AI" struggles with? I've already added questions about the number of "R" in blueberry & strawberry 😂

#citizenscience

Here's some updates on the little 'Personal API' Django app I made for getting some status updates in the footer of my website.

https://tzovar.as/updating-personal-api/

#personalscience #quantifiedself

As part of moving away from iOS, I've also replaced my Apple Watch with a Garmin device. Which means I'll have to figure out a way to get some of those data out to display it in my website footer!

Does anyone have a recommendation/existing solution for how to export small chunks of that data in regular intervals to an HTTP endpoint? Or will I have to learn how to use the Garmin API after all? 🙈

#wearables #fitness #quantifiedself #personalscience

Revolutionizing Healthcare with Real-Time Monitoring and Frequency Therapy: A Personal Journey Through the TEHS Scrum Framework for Health and Performance: Twice the Energy with Half the Stress https://leanpub.com/tehs by Jeff Sutherland is the featured book on the Leanpub homepage! https://leanpub.com #Scrum #LifeCoaching #DietAndNutrition #PersonalScience #PersonalTransformation #books #ebooks

Find it on Leanpub!

My secret to above average fitness? Plateauing and then waiting to get old enough to get into a different age bracket. From below average to above average, by benefit of turning 40 😅

Alternatively, a cautionary tale about the limits of quantifying health and wellbeing.

#personalscience #quantifiedself

«Symptom Radar works by evaluating metrics like resting heart rate, heart rate variability, temperature trends, and breathing rate to detect significant changes from your long-term baselines.»

Fun to see that Oura is now also using the approach we’ve come up with in the #personalscience community back in 2020 🙈 #quantifiedself
https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/5/24313465/oura-symptom-radar-illness-wearable-smart-ring

Had the “chance” to see the Apple Health Vitals in action. Can agree, I feel like crap. Interestingly, the watch only picked it up today, but I noticed some infection starting already yesterday.

#personalscience #quantifiedself

Spend a bit of time today on updating the MediaWiki and extensions that are powering the #PersonalScience wiki at https://wiki.openhumans.org

There's nothing better to make you appreciate how brittle our technical infrastructures are. 🤣 More seriously: If anyone encounters issues, please drop me a line!

The magnum opus of Katharina's PhD thesis has now been published in Royal Society Open Science: «Co-designing a #wiki-based community knowledge management system for #personalscience»! 🎉

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.240275

#openscience #citizenscience