Mining the quantified self: Personal knowledge discovery as a challenge for data science

Big Data

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 249-266

  Fawcett, Tom ^a  

^a Silicon Valley Data Science   (United States)

Author keywords

collection of health data; data science; internet of things; knowledge discovery; mobile health; quantified self; wearable devices

Indexed keywords

EID: 84991746002     PISSN: 21676461     EISSN: 2167647X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/big.2015.0049     Document Type: Article

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