We are a team of hackers and public health professionals who want to help you track and understand your health through the simplest interfaces possible. It all started when we began to notice that people we follow on our favorite social networks we’re were talking about how they’ve been feeling. A lot. On Twitter alone, we see tens of thousands of “feeling” tweets per day. So we decided to start mining as many social networks as possible and see what data and trends would start to show up. The result was fascinating. We were able to see breakouts as they were happening — in real-time!
We like to use Twitter and think that the model of simplicity works well for fostering frequent usage by many people. We’re also health nuts and have always wanted to better understand our health and what the factors are that contribute to it. So we’ve built uGraph as a tool to help us — and the world — understand health.
Our Team
We’re all co-founders and visionaries, as well as close friends. We also wear a lot of hats — because it’s all pretty interesting. The labels simply reflect the areas we spend more time in.
Micah Elliott — Architecture, Mining, Analysis, SysAdmin
Micah is fascinated by statistics and visualization of large amounts of data. He is zealous about Open Source and relies entirely upon it for any software development. Micah’s toolbox includes Python, vim, GIMP, Ubuntu, and anything else apt-get puts at his fingertips. Micah’s favorite book is presently The Numerati (author @stevebaker is on Twitter!). In his spare time he plays ukulele and guitar, and he is a huge jazz fan.
Follow me on Twitter, @micahelliott I also write a personal technology blog at micahelliott.com
David W Kohl – Strategy, Customer Relations, BizDev
David is a dreamer, a creator, an entrepreneur and an international consultant. David has spent the past 10 years as a cultural adviser facilitating business for government agencies and Fortune 500 companies in China and in North America. David serves as a Director and Executive Officer of the Northwest China Council based in Portland, Oregon, as well as working part-time as an adjunct professor at the University of Portland’s Pamplin School of Business teaching global management and entrepreneurship in the MBA program there. When not traveling internationally, David enjoys playing the violin, hiking, camping and enjoying the spectacular Pacific Northwest.
Follow me on Twitter: @dwkohl More information about David can be found here: dwkohl.com
Tim Denney – Visualizations, Graphics, Design
Other Associations
- Stoel Rives
- OTBC