Quantified Self, Ubiquitous Self Tracking = Wearable Analytics

The future is here. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.”   – William Gibson

Self-tracking,  Seamless Engagement and Personal Efficiency improvement’s new frontier is Personalized Big Data and Digital Health. This is really becoming a viable idea around wearable and sensor computing and the basis for new data platform wars.

The new platforms for digital life or data driven life — that collect, aggregate and disseminate — will  cover a wide range of new User Experience  (UX) use cases and end-points… medical devices, sensor-enable wristwear, headset/glasses, tech-sensitive clothing.  All of them are going to collect a lot of data, low latency analytics, and enable  data visualization. Several new firms are entering the activity tracker market LG (Life Band Touch), Sony (the Core), Garmin (Vivofit), Glassup, Pebble, JayBird Reign etc.

Data collection is just one piece of the solution. The foundation for personalized big data is Descriptive and Predictive Analytics.  Ok…What do i next? what is the suggestion? in the form of predictive search (automated deduction or augmented reality).

How do i discover useful patterns, analyze, visualize, share, query and mobilize the collected data?  A wide range of start-ups – Cue, reQall, Donna, Tempo AI, MindMeld, Evernote, Osito, and Dark Sky – and big companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft, LG and Samsung are working on predictive apps — aimed at enabling new robo-assistants that act as personal valets, anticipating what you need before you ask for it.

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