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Our Flipboard Magazine on Wearable Tech and Quantified Self
So many things about wearable tech, self tracking, and the Quantified Self! So we started to put everything we read into a Flipboard Magazine to share with everyone. View my Flipboard Magazine. Looking forward to your comments!
Smartphone Data: Our Talk at Strata+Hadoop World Conference in San Jose
From February 18th to 20th, O'Reilly's Strata+Hadoop World Conference will once again be the most important Big Data event of the year. More than 6,000 visitors are expected at San Jose Convention Center. I've been visitor to every Strata from the beginning. Thus I...
BYOD – Bring your own Data. Self-Tracking for Medical Practice and Research
"Facebook would never change their advertsing relying on a sample size as small as we do medical research on." (David Wilbanks) People want to learn about themselves and get their lives soundly supported by data. Parents record the height of their children. When we...
There is no privacy in mobile
Our phones register in radio cells to route the calls to the phone network. When we move around, we occasionally leave one cell and enter another. So our movements over leave a trace through the cells we have been passing the course of the day. Yves-Alexandre de...
Access Smartphone Data With our new API
Datarella now provides an API for our app 'explore', that allows every user to access the data collected and stored by the app. An Application Programming Interface, in short API, is an interface for accessing software or databases externally. Web-APIs giving us...
Sharing Goods And Sharing Data: Both Is Fun, Big Business And A Social Responsibility
Around 2010, Lisa Gansky coined the term Sharing Economy, or Mesh companies, offering their customers efficient shared access to their products instead of selling their products to them. Recently, it's being called Collaborative Consumption or Collaborative Economy....
Global Sleep Patterns
Sleep is one of the most interesting aspects of life: during sleep we don't act consciously (apart from a few natural processes inside our body) and therefore some people try to minimize sleep to get most out of their lives. Others maximize their sleep: for them sleep...
The social relevance of the explore app guides – The Datarella Interview
Today, we speak with Michael Reuter (KMR), Co-founder of Datarella, about the social relevance of the explore app guides. Q At Datarella, you offer different programs your users can participate in. Can you elaborate on the meaning behind these programs? KMR With our...
Data stories: from facts to fiction
The image above is taken from "Marx Engels Werke" (MEW): Marxism is the most prominent example of what postmodernism calls a 'Grand Narrative'. Marx and Engels took all kinds of data, drew their conclusions, and told the one story that made sense from what they found....
A Bit of Data Science – What Your Battery Status Tells About You
Working with lots of data, the biggest challenge is not to store or handle this data - these jobs are far from being trivial, but there are solutions for nearly any kind of problem in this space. The real work with data starts when you ask yourself: what's behind the...
The design of the explore app – The Datarella Interview
Today, we speak with Kira Nezu (KN), Co-founder of Datarella, about the design of the explore app. Q The explore app is available for Android smartphones only. What is the reason not to launch an iPhone version, too? KN We started to develop explore as a so-called...
User interaction with the explore app – The Datarella Interview
Today, we speak with Yukitaka Nezu (YN), Co-founder of Datarella, about user interaction with the explore app. Q The explore app provides two key elements: sensor tracking and social interaction. You are responsible for the social interaction part. Could you tell us...