I HAD AN IDEA...

by / Vanessa Sabino @bani

I LIKE TRACKING THINGS

I LIKE TRACKING THINGS

I LIKE TRACKING THINGS

I LIKE TRACKING THINGS

I LIKE TRACKING THINGS

I USE (A LOT OF) APPS

IT IS NOT A PERFECT WORLD

Using closed apps present several problems:

Data lives in silosDo I drink more water when I exercise?

Can't export dataA linechart is all you have?!

One account for each serviceWhat are they going to do with my data?

How long until they run out of business?

WHAT IF I COULD USE...

NOT GOOGLE GLASS

GOOGLE ANALYTICS

GOOGLE ANALYTICS

ReliableCustomize and segment reportsExport data (directly or through the API)

REAL LIFE TRACKINGIntroducing Universal Analytics

http://youtu.be/C27yMQOS8n0

TRACK WHAT YOU WANT

IT'S SUPER EASY!

import urllibimport urllib2

parameters = { 'v': '1', 'tid': 'UA-41050853-1', 'cid': 'xyz', 't': 'event', 'ec': 'Self', 'ea': 'Water', 'el': 'Glass', 'ev': 200}data = urllib.urlencode(parameters).encode('utf-8')headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MeasurementProtocol/1.0; script)'}req = urllib2.Request('https://ssl.google-analytics.com/collect', data, headers)print urllib2.urlopen(req).info()

HERE IS MY PLAN

An Android app that sends data from NFC tags

HERE IS MY PLAN

A web app with a form to send ad hoc data

WHAT DO YOU THINK?

by /

http://weureka.comVanessa Sabino @bani