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what is the 1.2. definition of the quantified self?

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“The quantified self is any individual engaged in the self tracking of any kind of biological, physical, behavioral, or environmental information. The self tracking is driven by a certain goal of the individual with a desire to act upon the collected information.

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What is the difference between definition 1.1. and 1.2. in the book?

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    1. defines the quantified self as having a proactive stance toward obtaining information and acting upon it
    1. is not interested in the proactive stand. it just defines the quantified self as performing self tracking with a certain goal in mind
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three broad categories of motivation to gather quantified self data

by Choe et al

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  1. improve health
  2. enhance other aspects of life (work, mindfulness)
  3. find new life experiences

> e.g. learn new things

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definition of machine learning in book?

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machine learning:

machine learning is to automatically identify patterns from data

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what are 5 unique characteristics of machine learning in the quantified self domain?

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  1. sensory data is noisy
  2. many requirements are missing
  3. data has highly temporal nature
  4. algorithms should enable support of and interaction with users without a long learning period
  5. collecting multiple datasets (one per user) and learn across them
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definition supervised learning?

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supervised learning is the machine learning task of inferring a function from labeled training data

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definition unsupervised learning?

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in unsupervised learning there is no target measure or label and the goal is to describe associations and patterns among the attributes

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name two examples of unsupervised learning in the book

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  1. clustering
  2. outlier detection
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definition reinforcement learning?

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reinforcement learning tries to find optimal actions in a given situation so as to maximize a numerical reward that does not immediately come with the action but later in time

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name the five factors of the five factor framework of self tracking motivations

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  1. self-healing

> help yourself to become healthy

  1. self-discipline

> like the rewarding aspects of the quantified self

  1. self-design

> control and optimize yourself using data

  1. self-association

> enjoying being part of a community and to relate

  1. self-entertainments

> enjoying the entertainment value of self tracking

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Lupton: what are the two different modes of self-tracking?

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  1. private self-tracking
  2. pushed self-tracking

> incentive to engage in self tracking comes from another party