Comments on: Self tracking is business intelligence http://datadoodle.com/2010/05/10/self-tracking-is-business-intelligence/ Where the humans meet analytics and related subjects Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:48:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dan Murray http://datadoodle.com/2010/05/10/self-tracking-is-business-intelligence/#comment-818 Dan Murray Wed, 26 May 2010 11:36:50 +0000 http://datadoodle.com/?p=1262#comment-818 I discount what experience BI/DW people say about this stuff. Focusing on the "last mile" of BI - how users interact with data - is already, and will be become even more important as the quantity and granularity of personal data continues to increase. Imagine if you had diabetes and could just tap a small sensor to your body and have your blood sugar level sent every 60 seconds to a server via the web...and then view that data via time series any time you want. Or, perhaps if the data hits a threshold your doctor could be automatically emailed the latest data with that time-series info embedded. That's were we are headed. PI may become a requirement of your health insurer's policy. I discount what experience BI/DW people say about this stuff. Focusing on the “last mile” of BI – how users interact with data – is already, and will be become even more important as the quantity and granularity of personal data continues to increase.

Imagine if you had diabetes and could just tap a small sensor to your body and have your blood sugar level sent every 60 seconds to a server via the web…and then view that data via time series any time you want. Or, perhaps if the data hits a threshold your doctor could be automatically emailed the latest data with that time-series info embedded.

That’s were we are headed. PI may become a requirement of your health insurer’s policy.

]]> By: Liz Rice http://datadoodle.com/2010/05/10/self-tracking-is-business-intelligence/#comment-814 Liz Rice Tue, 18 May 2010 11:13:37 +0000 http://datadoodle.com/?p=1262#comment-814 It seems strange that BI folks (data junkies!) would pooh-pooh the idea of self-tracking, doesn't it? Finding out where your personal time is going was the inspiration behind our time-tracking app, Qlockwork. If you're doing lots of offline activity then a "timer" (even if it's the Sicilian church bells tolling 4 times an hour) is just about the only way to track where your time is going. But if you're doing a lot of work on PC there are apps (such as Qlockwork) which will track your activities for you automatically. When you find out just how much time you've spent on different projects - or how much you're really spending on Facebook, even if it just feels like a couple of minutes! - it's amazing how you can rationalize your time. It seems strange that BI folks (data junkies!) would pooh-pooh the idea of self-tracking, doesn’t it?

Finding out where your personal time is going was the inspiration behind our time-tracking app, Qlockwork.

If you’re doing lots of offline activity then a “timer” (even if it’s the Sicilian church bells tolling 4 times an hour) is just about the only way to track where your time is going. But if you’re doing a lot of work on PC there are apps (such as Qlockwork) which will track your activities for you automatically.

When you find out just how much time you’ve spent on different projects – or how much you’re really spending on Facebook, even if it just feels like a couple of minutes! – it’s amazing how you can rationalize your time.

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