{"id":379,"date":"2016-02-15T18:55:12","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T23:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eiq.knx.mybluehost.me\/website_78d26930\/bigdatacourse?p=379"},"modified":"2016-02-24T23:06:52","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T04:06:52","slug":"quantified-self-readings-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jjsylvia.com\/bigdatacourse\/quantified-self-readings-assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"QUANTIFIED SELF &#8211; readings &amp; assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Readings to be read before class on Wednesday, 2\/17:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fuqua.duke.edu\/news_events\/news-releases\/jordan-etkin-tracking\/#.VrvlzxgrJdf\">http:\/\/www.fuqua.duke.edu\/news_events\/news-releases\/jordan-etkin-tracking\/#.VrvlzxgrJdf<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.underarmour.com\/devices\/activity-trackers\/the-beginners-guide-to-quantified-self-plus-a-list-of-the-best-personal-data-tools-out-there\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/blog.underarmour.com\/devices\/activity-trackers\/the-beginners-guide-to-quantified-self-plus-a-list-of-the-best-personal-data-tools-out-there\/<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Reading &#8211; Read before class on Monday, 2\/22:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">THE QUANTIFIED SELF: Fundamental Disruption in Big Data Science and Biological Discovery\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.swarthmore.edu\/~jwaterman\/cs97\/f14\/uploads\/Main\/qs.pdf\">https:\/\/www.cs.swarthmore.edu\/~jwaterman\/cs97\/f14\/uploads\/Main\/qs.pdf<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For this 400-500 word long blog post, you will be analyzing your own methods of self-tracking, and then discuss how you feel about self tracking.\u00a0<strong>Due Sunday night\/before class on Monday, February 22<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Pick a way that you self track and analyze it. This could be an exploration of an app in your phone. <\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Explain what the app is and what you intended to track upon getting the app\/beginning to tracking yourself.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> What information must you put in in order to use the app? How often do you input?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Is there any information that the app does not need to function, but might suggest you input to \u201cbetter\u201d the app\u2019s function?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> What is the future of this app? Do you see it changing anything in medicine, health, education, romance, etc?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Does the app\/do you post about this to social media? Why?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">6. Last, explain how you feel about self tracking. Does this make you feel happier? Do you feel happier when you track this (or any) aspect of yourself? How do you feel when other people post about their quantified self on social media?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readings to be read before class on Wednesday, 2\/17: http:\/\/www.fuqua.duke.edu\/news_events\/news-releases\/jordan-etkin-tracking\/#.VrvlzxgrJdf https:\/\/blog.underarmour.com\/devices\/activity-trackers\/the-beginners-guide-to-quantified-self-plus-a-list-of-the-best-personal-data-tools-out-there\/ &nbsp; Reading &#8211; Read before class on Monday, 2\/22: \u00a0\u201cTHE QUANTIFIED SELF: Fundamental Disruption in Big Data Science and Biological Discovery\u201d https:\/\/www.cs.swarthmore.edu\/~jwaterman\/cs97\/f14\/uploads\/Main\/qs.pdf &nbsp; For this 400-500 word long blog post, you will be analyzing your own methods of self-tracking, and then discuss how you<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/jjsylvia.com\/bigdatacourse\/quantified-self-readings-assignment\/\">+ Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-assignment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jjsylvia.com\/bigdatacourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jjsylvia.com\/bigdatacourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jjsylvia.com\/bigdatacourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jjsylvia.com\/bigdatacourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jjsylvia.com\/bigdatacourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jjsylvia.com\/bigdatacourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":494,"href":"https:\/\/jjsylvia.com\/bigdatacourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions\/494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jjsylvia.com\/bigdatacourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jjsylvia.com\/bigdatacourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jjsylvia.com\/bigdatacourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jjsylvia.com\/bigdatacourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}