Experimentations on humans are illegal unless you are experimenting on yourself
From 2012 to 2015 I was experimenting with data and I found that my personal data was a very convenient way to do that. While I have not found any groundbreaking evidence from my "personal annual reports", I found it fascinating seeing some of my behavior patterns in aggrege. I have published various personal reports as a way to make sense of the patterns and numbers and I gave a talk My Year in Numbers at Quantified Self Meet-up in 2013. In 2015 Washington Post featured my experiments in their article: The revolution will be digitized . Although I am not participating in the Quantified Self-movement anymore, I continue capturing selective data about myself and the experiment.
PROJECT URLS:
Accidental Reading (2020): https://observablehq.com/@annanican/accidental-reading
Personal Report 2017: https://annanican.github.io/AnnualReport_2017/
Personal Report 2014: https://annanican.github.io/AnnualReport_2014/