hen it comes to quantified self, one question I frequently hear is “how can this data really help me”? It is a good question, especially since there are huge volumes of data about ourselves available, and it may not be obvious how to put it to use. I have used quantified self data to improve…
have been using the Automatic Link in my Kia Sorento since December. It is a good little device that plugs into your car’s data port and pulls out all kinds of interesting information about your driving habits. For a while, you needed the iPhone app to browse the data, and the data itself was not extractable…
n writing about personal analytics and data collection, one question I get more frequently than most is: what do you get out of it? Today I thought I’d share 4 insights I’ve gained into my own behavior from scrutinizing the data that I collect. For those who haven’t been following along, I am fascinated by…
ere are some interesting stats from my vacation, which lasted 23 days from start to finish: Writing/Blogging I wrote 22,461 words of fiction while on vacation. That amounts to an average of just under 1,000 words/day. My best day was December 28, when I wrote over 3,600 words. My worst day was December 15, while on…
have been using a FitBit device since early 2012. At first, I had a FitBit Ultra which I used every day until I finally lost it on a walk in early March of 2013. In May of 2013, I got a FitBit Flex. Since it is much harder to lose the Flex, or forget it…
have already written about this in more detail here and here, but as a final end-of-year recap, I wanted to provide some interesting charts that summarize my fiction writing for 2013. I wrote a total of 274,373 words of fiction in 20131. These numbers come from my automated writing tracker scripts for Google Docs, which are…
esterday, I happened to notice that on my Audible app, I passed 30 days of listening to audiobooks in 2013. That means I spent 1/12th of my year listening to books. I thought that was a pretty amazing statistic, and I wondered how much of my day I could piece together based on data that I…
ast week, the family and I spent the week up in Maine on vacation. We had a lot of fun, and of course, the vacation ended far too quickly. I wrote while I was on vacation, I blogged a bit, I read some, and I walked a bit. It seemed to me that since I…
t has been a little over 2 months since I put in place automated processes for capturing data about my daily writing, blogging and reading. And given that I have reading, written, and blogged nearly every day for the last two months, it seems like a good time to share some of the numbers with…
I am currently away on an Internet Vacation. I’ll be back online on March 31. I have written one new post for each day of my Vacation so that folks don’t miss me too much while I am gone. But keep in mind, these posts have been scheduled ahead of time. Feel free to comment,…
have officially read 500 books since I started keeping my list on January 1, 1996. The lucky #500 turned out to be Jack McDevitt and Mike Resnick’s The Cassandra Project1. In the 17 years that it took me to hit 500 books 6,139 days have elapsed, which means that I finished a book, on average, once…