My Show&Tell at the QS Groningen meetup June 15 2016 featured up-to-date sneezing data with some new visualizations and analyses—and even some reflections on QS in the light of Walter Benjamin's thoughts on art and technology and QS and the concept of the avant-garde.
13. My active self-tracking
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• 100000+ observations
• 500+ hours making the observations (estimated)
➔ Even smartphone apps are too cumbersome
15. A warning against
naïve N-of-1 methodology
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Cross-over design
From http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=1834168
Source: NASA
State and path dependency
16. Walter Benjamin on art and
technology
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One of the foremost tasks of art has always been the creation of a demand
which could be fully satisfied only later.
The history of every art form shows critical epochs in which a certain art form
aspires to effects which could be fully obtained only with a changed technical
standard, that is to say, in a new art form.
The extravagances and crudities of art which thus appear, particularly in the
so-called decadent epochs, actually arise from the nucleus of its richest
historical energies. Walter Benjamin (1936): Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen
Reproduzierbarkeit [original title in German]
From https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm
17. QS and the concept of
the avant-garde
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The avant-garde (from French, “advance guard” or “vanguard”,
literally “fore-guard”) are people or works that are experimental or
innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics.
The avant-garde pushes the boundaries of what is accepted as
the norm or the status quo, primarily in the cultural realm. […]
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avant-garde
18. Thank you for your attention
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