Hi folks,

Does anyone have any recommendations for doctors in the NYC area that are into helping their patients optimize health? As in, someone that will not look at a middling-but-not-great result and think "that's just the way it is, let's stick to monitoring this"?

Thank you!

Hey so it's really hard to find other people who are interested in quantified self so I've created a Discord server for lifelogging & quantified self folk. Let's meet each other!

Here's the invite: https://discord.gg/ZFgwHAn6G9

Hey all, it would mean a lot if you could take 5-10 minutes to take part in this survey as part of my college design project.

Link to survey: https://qualtricsxmj6ycp8thy.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dd3p5qCdb3YpGke

I want to do a similar comparison and now what I'm looking at is step tracking and heart rate and sleep at some point

I'm using the same h10 chest strap he uses and I'm using the fit meter from Wii fit u as my reference device for step tracking

Now when it comes to heart rate tracking I'm tracking things like playing with my dog doing Wii fit u weigh in fit age thing everyday I've even tracked a few times of me doing the dishes. The goal with what I'm doing is to say is this accurate when you're doing basic things? Because if the device is not accurate in heart rate while you're doing the dishes or playing with your dog, how can you trust the device to give you decent health information that you could potentially and possibly present to a doctor if you needed to?

So I'm just wondering what program he uses and how he extracts the data specifically from the polar app to be exact. And if anyone knows of any mobile apps on like Android that could compare watches and all that stuff that would be great as well

After a brief foray into the Apple ecosystem I’m returning to Android. I’m looking for an android app that reports sleeping heart rate dip. In SleepWatch (apparently only available on iOS) there’s a direct and drastic correlation between my HR dip and my exercise during the day, so this is a really helpful stat for me. Specifically, it’s expressed as a percentage (on days when I don’t do a hard workout, my dip is about 8%, versus about 19% after a hard workout).

Does anyone know of an android app that offers the same stat?

Hi, I've a Xiaomi band 4 device and I would like to export the data (sleep, heart rate and steps data) in order to analyze them on powerbi (importing a csv or excel). Does anyone have found a way in order to do it simply or in automated way?

Hi!

My gym has some super duper scale that measures "skeletal muscle mass" They told me it increased by 400g in 4 weeks. However, they said 500 - 1000g is possible. The absolute value is between 30 and 40kg.

My scale at home (Withings Body+) measures "muscles" and they seem to have actually decreased. However the absolute value is around 50 - 60kg.

Is the "muscles" measurement on the Body+ precise enough to serve as a benchmark? Or do I have to regularly beg the gym to let me use their scale? 😂

Or maybe: do you have other ideas how to track build up of muscle mass?

This was posted in the QS Forum a while back and I marked it to read since it was long and then never got back to it. And then I did. Very impressive project: https://blog.kto.to/ecg-hrv-24-7-science-qs

Interesting project by Eric Jain:
https://forum.quantifiedself.com/t/omega-3-me/10737

I’m considering developing an app to make goal tracking easier and more efficient. My theory is that many of us set goals but either forget about them or find it tedious to manually update our progress.

I’ve noticed that people often use different apps for different goals—finance apps, health apps, nutrition apps, Apple Watch, etc. My idea is to create an app that allows users to connect their goals to various data sources (like these apps) so that their progress updates automatically. This would work for both habits and goals and could include tips and guides for achieving some of the most common goals.

Before diving in, I’d love to get some feedback:

1. Do you find it tedious to update your goals manually?
2. Do you use multiple apps to track different aspects of your goals?
3. Have you ever forgotten to update your progress or lost track of your goals entirely?

Any thoughts or feedback would be greatly appreciated! if you want to see some of the screen shots of my draft feel free to DM me.

Hello,

I'm working on a free Android app that makes it easy to track the time and temperature of your cold showers, ice baths, and nature plunges, and stay motivated. You can check it here: https://coldshower.web.app/

It has a voice coach to help you feel less lonely & cold, achievements to unlock, some cool stats and scores to help you stay motivated. Let me know if you would like more features.

Thanks, and may the Cold be with you!

This might not belong here but thought it might be the best place to start.

When watching movies, I tend to pick up my phone a lot. I have a hypothesis that if it is a good movie, I pick up my phone less. So I am looking for an app to track how much time I spend on my phone for a specific period. Something I can start or set when I start a movie, and see how much time I am on my phone. Based on this, I want to rate movies based on the percentage of time I spend on my phone while watching it.

Any Ideas?

Screen time is OK, but I have to start a movie on the hour in order to track it.

I think I might be looking for some sort of time tracker app. There are some on Mac, like Timing App, but I need something like that for my phone.

Open to creative solutions here.

I am a quantitative researcher at an asset management but my role requires very little to no programming so I have been able to just use my math skills, datasets, strategy skills as well as chat GPT and other team members to get away with coding. I do understand code when I read it and some coding naturally comes to mind but I am in the middle of a job change and am applying to firms. I have some 150 Leetcode exercises but when it comes to dealing with datasets, data manipulations, basic modeling, visualization etc I am stuck and I tried to practice but it’s not enough. Is there anyone who can break down all the stuff with links that I need to practice in order to pass interviews and assessments including data handling, cleaning, visualization, manipulation, basic modeling, feature analysis and standard statistical tests that I need to know? That is the only thing that I am missing in my background and everyone refers me to resources and not a structured prep. I would greatly appreciate if someone can direct me towards structured prep for this area only in quantitative finance. Much appreciated :)

I'm a student researcher from UCL who is working on a study to learn about people's experiences with using smart scales for measuring their weight.

If anyone here has any experience with one of these devices, we would love to hear from you. We will be giving out vouchers for anyone who participates in the study. Due to Ethics procedures, we can only speak to people who are also based in the UK.

If you'd like to take part, you can fill in your details on this form to get involved:

https://forms.office.com/e/z1L8E3u44Z

I use Garmin for sports, but never had an Apple Watch or any other fancy watches. However I noticed I haven’t been feeling very attuned to my body lately (and have gone thru a few personal situations which caused quite a bit of stress) so I would be interested to try out another wearable that might help me detect when/if I’m feeling more stress/ fear than usual. This would help me in the moment to remind myself to breathe before acting.