Wikilife is pleased to announce the integration of the ABC Homeopathy database into its platform. ABC Homeopathy is an excellent resource that offers several types of information related to homeopathy, including a full guide to homeopathy, a homeopathy forum, a online remedy finder, a homeopathic remedies store and a homeopathy directory.

Homeopathy is the second most widely used system of medicine in the world. Throughout the last decade, homeopathy has grown around 25 to 50 percent a year in the United States. Homeopathic remedies are based on natural ingredients and are very effective; results can be rapid and permanent when ...

Wikilife is an on-going worldwide project that aims to collect and distribute health and lifestyle information in an open and anonymous way. To accomplish our mission, we are developing an IOS app where users will be able to log and track all data that is related to their health and lifestyle.

In order to facilitate the logging, we are incorporating different databases related to food, drugs and medical conditions into the app. Recently, Wikilife has integrated a novel food database called Nutritionix, an open and searchable nutrition database that contains nutritional information from restaurants and packaged foods. Nutritionix stores over ...

Daniel Nofal, Wikilife's co-founder presented Wikilife at the Quantified Self Conference 2012 .

This is a follow up to our discussion about meta-data organization and structure. In our previous post we discussed the need to move from a tree structure to a graph (or digraph) structure. We also identified two key types of relationships between nodes, the "is" relationship and the "has" relationship. In one of our brainstorming sessions, Federico Prada, our Research Director, suggested using a multidementional graph to represent the meta-data, so we are starting to explore this idea. 

Wikilife's meta-data is basically a set of life variables with context. For example, a person may want to track her nutrition ...

The courts of ancient Athens were inscribed with a phrase which some attribute to Socrates: “Know Thyself.” These days, self-knowledge, a quintessential component of justice, psychology and literature, is utilized in a whole new field made possible by the integration of various trackers, sensors and data collection devices into our daily lives. Quantified Self brings “know thyself” to health.

It is now possible to track weight, steps, sleep, mood and food with virtually no effort save stepping on a scale, responding to an app’s push notification or taking a photo of your meal.  An emerging community for self-trackers is ...

Wikilife has the ability to integrate different devices, and this functionality helps users keep track of their devices' data, without logging the data manually. Now, users can view logs generated by devices in their Wikilife app! One of Wikilife's objectives is to anonymize user identity, therefore we don't want to store username and passwords for each device. We have implemented a solution to accomplish this goal: using Singly services to get data from devices without having to store any personal data using the Oauth protocol. 

Why Singly?

Singly is an extremely useful tool that integrates web services using ...

Inspired in part by Quantified Self 2012, the team at Wikilife is embarking on a set of social self-experiments. Tracking personal data fundamentally changes the way we understand and proactively improve health. A next generation evolution of quantified self is organizing data collection by means of experiments, whereby an individual hypothesizes that two or more metrics are related to one another and together influence some aspect of personal health.  For example, how does exercise activity influence sleep or does traveling exacerbate allergies? Answers to these questions are likely different for each individual, which is why quantified self is valuable in ...

 Wikilife has been compiling lifestyle and health variables for almost two years. These variables were initially organized as a hierarchical tree structure with two or three levels of top categories. While working on expanding and maintaining this tree structure it was clear that a more flexible structure was needed.

We are thinking on changing the structure to a digraph or directed graph that is not hierarchical and allows for multiple relationships between nodes. The following concepts define this new structure:

Quantifiable Nodes

Each node is an aspect of life that can be tracked and quantified by one or more metrics ...

Wikilife is proud to sponsor the first Quantified Self Buenos Aires chapter meetup that will be held on October 30th. If you are interested in signing up and get more details please visit the QS Buenos Aires Meetup