NY Quantified Self Show&Tell #26 - Using Facebook for Health Insights

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For Health Insights Shawn Dimantha

@sdimanthashawn@enfluence.io

I wanted to find a better way to keep track of my health without the hassle

MIT’s Immersion visualized my email network…

Why not use Facebook analytics?

• Largest quantity and variety of data available

• High quality images available

• Could images be a window into my health?

An image is worth a thousand wordsinsights

Published academic research supports this approach

A rating over time could help me forecast and track my health

Off Track>2.2

Caution>2.1 to <2.2

Good< 2.1

2.26 2.24 2.26 2.31 2.18 2.22 2.26 2.31

2.16 2.27 2.232.03 2.16 2.13 2.12

Commuting Princeton – NYC every day

Joined local gym

2.32 2.39 2.39 2.4 2.26 2.162.31

70 day gym streak

2.25 2.15 2.212.04 2.07

2.24 2.18 2.2

2.192.01 2.06 2.1 1.99 2.01

Surgery + recovery

ClimbedMt. Kilimanjaro

1.94 2.04 2.05 2.14 2.06

New job Trip home +2 weddings/ bachelor parties

What I learned

• Facial image data needs to be cleaned and carefully selected. Face shapes are unique and need to be treated as such.

• Data that is not present is often more telling than what is present

• Life events effect my weight and should be put into context; however causation is harder to determine than correlation

• By being more conscious of my score and I can change my behavior before things get off track

What would you include in a health score? Want to give it a try?

shawn@enfluence.io

@sdimantha

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