infoneer-pulse: Data for a Better Planet If you’ve ever asked Nike+ to log your runs or given Google permission to keep your search history, you’ve participated in a bit of self-tracking. Now that more people have location-aware smartphones and the Web has made data easy to share, personal data is poised to become an important tool to understand how we live, and how we all might live better. One great example of this phenomenon in action is the site Cure Together, which allows you to enter your symptoms—for, say, “anxiety” or “insomnia”—and the various remedies you’ve tried to feel better. One thing the site does is aggregate this information and presents the results in chart form. Here is the chart for depression. Instead of being isolated in your own condition, you can now see what has worked for others. The same principle is at work at the site Fuelly, where you can “track, share, and compare” your miles per gallon and see how efficient certain makes and models really are. » via Slate Click for high-res photo

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Data for a Better Planet

If you’ve ever asked Nike+ to log your runs or given Google permission to keep your search history, you’ve participated in a bit of self-tracking. Now that more people have location-aware smartphones and the Web has made data easy to share, personal data is poised to become an important tool to understand how we live, and how we all might live better.

One great example of this phenomenon in action is the site Cure Together, which allows you to enter your symptoms—for, say, “anxiety” or “insomnia”—and the various remedies you’ve tried to feel better. One thing the site does is aggregate this information and presents the results in chart form. Here is the chart for depression.

Instead of being isolated in your own condition, you can now see what has worked for others. The same principle is at work at the site Fuelly, where you can “track, share, and compare” your miles per gallon and see how efficient certain makes and models really are.

» via Slate

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    While I hate the almost constant surveillance we all put ourselves under, you have to admit, a lot of good does come out...
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