Machine learning for the quantified self

M Hoogendoorn, B Funk - On the art of learning from sensory data, 2018 - Springer
On the art of learning from sensory data, 2018Springer
Self-tracking has become part of a modern lifestyle; wearables and smartphones support
self-tracking in an easy fashion and change our behavior such as in the health sphere. The
amount of data generated by these devices is so overwhelming that it is difficult to get useful
insight from it. Luckily, in the domain of artificial intelligence, techniques exist that can help
out here: machine learning approaches are well suited to assist and enable one to analyze
this type of data. While there are ample books that explain machine learning techniques, self …
Self-tracking has become part of a modern lifestyle; wearables and smartphones support self-tracking in an easy fashion and change our behavior such as in the health sphere. The amount of data generated by these devices is so overwhelming that it is difficult to get useful insight from it. Luckily, in the domain of artificial intelligence, techniques exist that can help out here: machine learning approaches are well suited to assist and enable one to analyze this type of data. While there are ample books that explain machine learning techniques, self-tracking data comes with its own difficulties that require dedicated techniques such as learning over time and across users. In this book, we will explain the complete loop to effectively use self-tracking data for machine learning; from cleaning the data, the identification of features, finding clusters in the data, algorithms to create predictions of values for the present and future, to learning how to provide feedback to users based on their tracking data. All concepts we explain are drawn from state-of-the-art scientific literature. To illustrate all approaches, we use a case study of a rich self-tracking dataset obtained from the crowdsignals platform. While the book is focused on the self-tracking data, the techniques explained are more widely applicable to sensory data in general, making it useful for a wider audience. Who should read this book? The book is intended for students, scholars, and practitioners with an interest in analyzing sensory data and user-generated content to build their own algorithms and applications. We will explain the basics of the suitable algorithms, and the underlying mathematics will be explained as far as it is beneficial for the application of the methods. The focus of the book is on the application side. We provide implementation in both Python and R of nearly all algorithms we explain throughout the book and make the code available for all the case studies we present in the book as well. Additional material is available on the website of the book (ml4qs. org):
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