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Using

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

2009

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

2.26 2.24 2.26 2.31 2.18 2.22 2.26 2.31

2010

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

2.16 2.27 2.232.03 2.16 2.13 2.12

Commuting Princeton – NYC every day

Joined local gym

2011

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

2.32 2.39 2.39 2.4 2.26 2.162.31

Commuting Princeton – NYC every day

2012

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

70 day gym streak

2.25 2.15 2.212.04 2.07

2.24 2.18 2.2

Commuting Princeton – NYC every day

2013

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

2.192.01 2.06 2.1 1.99 2.01

2.16

Surgery + recovery

ClimbedMt. Kilimanjaro

2014

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

1.94 2.04 2.05 2.14 2.06

New job Trip home +2 weddings/ bachelor parties

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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