Timeline of quantified self
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This is a timeline of quantified self.
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| Year | Month and date | Event type | Details |
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| 2007 | March 26 | Fitbit | |
| 2007 | The term quantified self is proposed in San Francisco by Wired magazine editors Gary Wolf and Kevin Kelly as "a collaboration of users and tool makers who share an interest in self knowledge through self-tracking."[1][2] | ||
| 2008 | "At the center of the quantified self movement is, appropriately, the Quantified Self community, which in October 2012 comprised 70 worldwide meetup groups with 5,000 participants having attended 120 events since the community formed in 2008 (event videos are available online at http://quantifiedself.com/)."[3] | ||
| 2012 | September | " The group's third conference was held at Stanford University in September 2012 with over 400 attendees."[3] | |
| 2012 | October | "At the center of the quantified self movement is, appropriately, the Quantified Self community, which in October 2012 comprised 70 worldwide meetup groups with 5,000 participants having attended 120 events since the community formed in 2008"[3] | |
| 2012 | October | "The Quantified Self web site listed over 500 tools as of October 2012 (http://quantifiedself.com/guide/), mostly concerning exercise, weight, health, and goal achievement."[3] |
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References
- ↑ Wolf, Gary. "Quantified Self". Gary Wolf. Archived from the original (blog) on 2012-03-27. Retrieved 2012-03-26.
- ↑ Singer, Emily. "The Measured Life". MIT. Retrieved 2011-07-05.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Swan, Melanie (June 2013). "The Quantified Self: Fundamental Disruption in Big Data Science and Biological Discovery". Big Data. 1 (2): 85–99. doi:10.1089/big.2012.0002.
