Podcast: The Personal Data Revolution

the average person can now collect and analyze unprecedented amounts of data about themselves. What was once the province of extreme athletes and dieters has been democratized and the resulting movement is called 'The Quantified Self.'

NPR On The Media, May 13, 2011

On The Media It's possible for the average person to collect and analyze unprecedented amounts of data about themselves. What was once the province of extreme athletes and dieters has been democratized and the resulting movement is called 'The Quantified Self.' Brooke speaks with Gary Wolf, who coined the term, a number of self-quantifiers, and MIT professor Deb Roy about what all this personal data really tells us about ourselves. (11m 45s).

For a transcript, see www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2011/05/13/01