Self-monitoring and Quantified Self Resources

johnthomasmoore

Maybe we could start a list of resources for monitoring, analyzing and visualizing our data.

I just discovered using Google spreadsheets to pull Fitbit data: http://quantifiedself.com/2013/02/how-to-download-fitbit-data-using-google-spreadsheets/

Just wish it pulled blood pressure data.

johnthomasmoore

In mid September my blood pressure was up and the doc said (again), “lose weight.” So I remembered the only success I ever had losing weight and keeping it off was when I got on the scale daily. Yup, can't control it if you don't measure it. Knew I wanted to lose weight, drop blood pressure and increase activity. Scale in the house was unreliable and inaccurate. Decided I needed some tools.

Hardware:

Scale:
EatSmart Precision Digital Bathroom Scale
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001KXZ808/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Blood Pressure Monitor:
Omron BP785 10 Series Upper Arm Blood Pressure Monitor
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004H4B3W4/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Activity Monitor:
Fitbit One
http://www.amazon.com/Fitbit-Wireless-Activity-Sleep-Tracker/dp/B0095PZHPE/ref=sr_1_1?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1385220590&sr=1-1&keywords=fitbit+one

Websites:
MyFitnessPal allows me to enter my diet and weight, as well as some body measurements. Integrates with Fitbit and adjusts my daily calorie goal based on activity level.
http://www.myfitnesspal.com

Fitbit automatically tracks my steps and allows me to track sleep from the device. I can manually log blood pressure and body measurements on the website.
http://www.fitbit.com/

Trendweight is based on the Hacker's Diet. It charts my weight and calculates trend. Pulls my weight from FitBit which pulls from MyFitness Pal
https://trendweight.com

Microsoft Healthvault pulls my blood pressure and weight from Fitbit. Does decent graphs and allows downloading data in csv format
https://www.healthvault.com/us/en

Hacker's Diet Online allows me to log my weight and it computes trends. Trendweight does much the same thing but pulls weight data automatically from Fitbit.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/online/hdo.html

Tictrac is kind of cool, kind of clunky. Will pull data automatically from some sources and allows input of whatever you want. Does a nice job of producing some charts of whatever measurements you want to track.
https://www.tictrac.com

Chartmyself produces some elegant charts but requires manual input of all data.
https://www.chartmyself.com

Google Drive has some nice spread sheet functions and there is a script that will pull Fitbit data. I'm workng on coming up with some ways to aggregate, integrate and visualize my data.
https://drive.google.com (http://quantifiedself.com/2013/02/how-to-download-fitbit-data-using-google-spreadsheets/ )

Sleep As Android is an android phone app that monitors sleep. Produces some interesting data. There is a website that allows some exploration of sleep trends.
http://sleep-cloud.appspot.com/

arober11

Not complete, the import / integration and analytics needs some work, but might be of interest: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.arcalot.biometrics also Google Fit is slowly growing as an alternative health / vital repository.