“ The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly – to develop strategies of seeing and showing.”
—Edward Tufte
Nicholas Felton is an American infographic who translates quotidian data into meaningful objects and experiences. Felton is the author of numerous personal Annual Reports that condense the events of his year into a tapestry of maps, graphs and statistics. The insights and techniques developed from his Annual Reports have informed his design of Facebook’s Timeline and the creation of the Reporter and Daytum applications. He has been profiled by The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times and his work is a part of the permanent collection at MoMA.
The tenth and final Feltron Annual Report examines the state of self-tracking through available apps and devices. When the project began in 2005, the music-tracking website 'Last.fm' was the only service capable of automatically capturing a category of personal data. Ten years later, listening habits can be augmented with persistent location data, categories and amounts of physical activity, sleep, weight, continuous heart-rate, blood-alcohol levels, driving habits and computer usage. This report attempts to merge all of this information in a format that reveals connections, provides context and suggests correlations.
