Personal Dashboard - QS Show & Tell #33

Creating my Personal Dashboard

Me: Philip I. Thomas Site: philipithomas.com Twitter: @philipithomas Email: mail@philipithomas.com Slides: philipithomas.com/quantified-self/

About Me

•  Software Engineer at OpenDNS •  Recent WUSTL graduate

(Systems Engineering + Physics)

•  From Cleveland •  OpenLate Meetup •  Salsa Dancing, Operations Research

Project

Visualizing the data from my life with a personal dashboard

Agenda

•  History •  What I did •  How I did it •  What I learned

History

23 and Me

23 and Me

What I did

Inspiration: KPI Dashboards

at OpenDNS

Create a dashboard for my life

What if I make my dashboard public?

How I did it

APIs: outsourced quantified self

Data exists

But the cool stuff isn’t obvious

API of APIs

Database

API

Stack

What I learned

Collecting my own data is hard.

Apps already collect data about me

Visualization makes quantifying myself fun

Project

Visualizing the data from my life with a personal dashboard

Agenda

•  History •  What I did •  How I did it •  What I learned

Creating my Personal Dashboard

Me: Philip I. Thomas Site: philipithomas.com Twitter: @philipithomas Email: mail@philipithomas.com Slides: philipithomas.com/quantified-self/