Mining the Quantified Self: Personal Knowledge Discovery as a Challenge for Data Science

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Mining the Quantified Self: Personal Knowledge Discovery as a Challenge for Data Science
Tom Fawcett, Big Data, 2016/04/05
Researchers know how to do analytics on large data sets, but doing useful analytics on individual people still eludes them. "despite small dataset size, the QS domain should be appealing to re- searchers (because it opens up interesting issues) and significant in its impact on the real world (because it can have a direct effect on people’s lives)." But it's not, because it's hard. More...