As discussed above, the quantified-self movement is an important step in bringing scientific framework to understand an individual based on data collected continuously. This is the first time in history of humanity that this has become feasible. The early stages…
Objective Self 4: You are the Most Important.
To each of us, the most important object or entity is self. All human beings are interested in understanding self to maximize satisfaction from their life. This satisfaction maximization requires having a better model for individual life. Most sociological and…
Objective Self 3: Quantified Self is a step towards Objective Self
The 21st century started with significantly advanced storage, processing, sensing, and communication technologies. All these have resulted in popularization of strong data-dependent approaches. Big Data became the biggest buzz word one can imagine. Since scientific approaches emphasized observation and systematic…
Using Big Data for Storytelling
One of the best post that I read in some time on ‘data’ is by Om Malik. See here. This post made me think about all the buzz about Big Data. The situation is exactly same as that described in…
Corelation is the Mother of Causality
I have always heard, for as long as I remember, that correlation and causality are not the same. That is OK. They are indeed different. But there is always this implication by many, if not the most, people that correlation…