Personal Life API
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Learn how to expose all your quantified self data via a simple Life API. Use that data for tasks ranging from making real-time decisions to long term planning. The presentation/workshop is composed of the following three phases. Phase 1: Use techniques from Personal Productivity experts to identify what data is important to quantify. Phase 2: Create a template for helping us determine what tools, services and devices will automate (mostly) our data collection. Phase 3: Combine and expose our data behind a Life API. We will design the API using APIary.io and implement it using Python/Flask. At this point we will explore how we can use this API and put our data to work. To focus and make sure you all walk away with a tangible result within our allotted time, we will limit our scope to the area of health.
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- 1. Quantify Thyself, then Go Forth & Conquer with a Personal Life API Elmer Thomas Hacker in Residence @thinkingserious
- 2. If you had access to all the data the NSA has collected about you via API, what would you build?
- 3. Our goal is to liberate, normalize, analyze and execute on YOUR data
- 4. The Personal API gives you a uniform interface to YOUR data
- 5. Determine what data to quantify Choose how we will quantify Build the API Innovate on top of the API with apps
- 6. Step 1 Determine what data to quantify
- 7. Define the areas of your life you want to improve
- 8. For each area, define S.M.A.R.T. goals
- 10. Step 2 Choose how we will quantify the data we need
- 11. Use our S.M.A.R.T. goal to identify the data
- 17. How do we access and store the data?
- 18. Step 3 Build the API
- 20. /v1.0/health/goal /v1.0/health/weight /v1.0/health/calories /v1.0/health/sleep /v1.0/health/stress
- 21. Create a prototype using APIary.io
- 22. Build the API using Python/Flask
- 23. What will you do with the data? Apps!
- 24. Determined what data to quantify Chose how we will quantify Built the API Innovated on top of the API with apps
- 25. “If you can not measure it, you can not improve it” - Lord Kelvin
- 26. @thinkingserious aka Lord Elmer
- 27. Let’s go further bit.ly/apithyself
Editor's Notes
- This talk was delivered at API World (see http://www.apiworld.co) on September 16th, 2014.
- Example data: * Location * Voice * Text data
- We will limit the focus of this talk to health, in particular weight loss
- Examples: * Health (mind, body) * Career (and associated skills) * Relationships (family, friends) In this talk, we focus on Health:body
- Specific Measurable Achievable Relevant Time Bound
- Losing Weight (Health) is our SMART goal Specific: weigh 180lbs by December 31 Measurable: weight scale Achievable: 2 lbs a week is physically possible via lower calorie intake and burning more calories over time Relevant: improves most areas of my life that I want to improve (e.g. more energy for family time) Time Bound: December 31
- Example data needed to support a weight loss goal: * Weight * Calorie consumption * Calories burned * Sleep * Stress
- Weight measurement tools: * WiThings Scale * Scale at the Gym * “Innovative Scale”
- Calorie consumption measurement tools: * Food labels * Food scale * Calorie counting software (e.g. LoseIt, MyFitness Pal) * Calorie counting websites * http://www.webmd.com/diet/healthtool-food-calorie-counter * https://www.supertracker.usda.gov/default.aspx * APIs: * http://platform.fatsecret.com/api * http://dev.fitbit.com * http://www.myfitnesspal.com/api
- Calorie measurement tools: * Exercise Tracking Tools * Fitbit * iWatch * Software * e.g. Moves - https://dev.moves-app.com * e.g. Moves - Runkeeper - http://developer.runkeeper.com/healthgraph/overview
- Sleep measurements: * Sleep Cycle * Fitbit
- Stress measurements: * Melon * Custom form that asks “How are you feeling?” periodically through the day
- Access can be manual, automated or via an API Aggregate and store your data
- Define the dataset roughly using a mind map Rapid, collaborative feedback across departments
- Convert to endpoints We’ll start with support for GET, PUT and PATCH We will implement the goal, weight and calories endpoints for this talk
- Live demo: http://docs.apithyself.apiary.io
- Live demo: https://github.com/thinkingserious/apithyself
- Example apps: * Reminders (data entry, staying on course) * Easier data entry interfaces * Reporting * Collaboration, data sharing
- AKA William Thompson, a physicist who theorized a new temperature scale including absolute zero
- Find out more about the speaker here: http://www.thinkingserious.com
- G+ community to continue the conversation: http://bit.ly/apithyself