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.

1. What’s in a sneeze?
Thomas Blomseth Christiansen
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QS Groningen, June 15 2016

2. Sneezes 2016
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167(so far)

3. Sneezes 2011-2016
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444
1019
533
486
230
167

4. Sneezes 2011-2016
@tblomsethBased on http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/4063318

5. Sneezes 2011-2016
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2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

6. Sneezes 2011 vs. 2016
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7. Sneezes 2011 vs. 2016
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CPH NYC
SV
NYC CPH
N-DK
CPH
N-DK SV SD NYC DK NL
NYC N-DKCPH
SF

8. What is sneezing good for?
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9. Reasoning and Modeling
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Pollen in nose
Time

10. When It Rains, It Pours
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Frequency
Distance in time to previous

11. When It Rains, It Pours
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Frequency
Distance in time to previous

12. Consciousness as part of the
instrumentation
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Active self-tracking

13. My active self-tracking
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• 100000+ observations
• 500+ hours making the observations (estimated)
➔ Even smartphone apps are too cumbersome

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Instruments from TOTTI Labs
Observations of subjectively perceived phenomena
using wearables

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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