Nicolas Feltron is a data analyst and designer who creates annual personal data reports. He collects and analyzes data about his activities, travels, moods, and relationships. Feltron's reports have been recognized for extracting insights from diverse structured and unstructured data sources like calendars, photos, social media, and more. While initially collecting as much data as possible, Feltron now takes a sampling approach to gain understanding while balancing completeness with sustainability. His work aims to discover connections within personal data and visualize insights about oneself and how one's behaviors change over time.

1. 7th Infographics
Conference 2014
Nicolas Feltron
Nicolas Feltron
Co-founder of Daytum.com
Currently a member of the product
design team at Facebook
Work has been profiled in publications
including the Wall Street Journal, Wired and
Good Magazine
Been recognized as one of the 50 most influential
designers in America by Fast Company.
Http://www.feltron.com
Intro: he registrates it all
2005-2014
Grand survey
Feltron annual report
Print piece
Explore data Information he collects
Examples
Daytum.com
Site
Data
Facebook timeline
Reporter app (iPhone)
Archelogical
approach
Personal annual reporting Data out of your life
Sources of data after activity Talking about a year
Started using last.fm. Deep
knowledge about one domain
Overview
Books
Trips
...
Restaurant
Little visualisation
Music - most vibrating
Photo
1% of photo's was of his cat
Extracted exif data
Location
Facial recognition
Underutilize source
People took notice of report
Virility
Everyone like it
Revision of
archaeological
approach in 2010
After father died
Created a report Artefacts sources
Calendars
Passport
Slides
Been over
the world
An overview of his travels
Calendar
Tagging of information
Approach
Passports are interesting
Extracting data out of all kinds of
structured sources
Discoverable context
3000 slides Added meta data
Asked people on flickr where
photos where taken
Drafted a whole map where he father has been
Cardiographic
Evaluation Rely on data at hand
Hard to turn it in a product
Hoarding
(2006)
As much data as possible
Applied in 2006
Collecting for purpose of making document
Mapping
Restaurants
Animals eaten
Taxonomies
Created a printed report
(2007)
First time selling it
Tracked down all the streets he walked in New York
Kept track of coffee
(2008)
Miles walked/ ran / driven/ subway
Need tot adapt to track everythingHelicopter ride
Mileage is part of grand theft auto
Evaluation
hoarding (2009)
High cost
Addictive
Aware of data - hard to let go
Maybe you want it later
Not a complete view
Mood
Watch
Who you have been with
Hard to get complete knowledge
Load of words came
back on his mood
Mechanical turkRepetitive task
Ended up with a mood index
Beery vs boozed
Graph
Happy
Swell
Eighty
Bienniel report
(2010/2011)
Unique data set
2 years with same set of data
How behaviour change by people
he has been with
Data
Ate
Drank
Who he had been with
Capturing everything in iCal
Visualisation to track the visualisation
Sampling
(2009)
Give up on completeness
At certain times what he was doingExrapolate
Outsourced it
Let others help him with self
reporting his mood
Tools
Streamline your life
Commissioned an iPhone app
Used reporter
Easy to track behaviour
2014
Visualisation
Practicals, trackers
Random array
Spaced time curve
Location in NY
Location spend time in
Tracking globally
Visualization of data
Making connections
Tie together states
Reporter
App
General edition
Allows visualisations
Track background data
Answer questions
Optimised
Remember people/ dataDesigned for the community
Export
Csv
Json
Latest 2013
report
Track
Sms
Telephone
Conversations
Snail mail
Snowden
revelations
Distinction
Data
Meta data
Power of meta data
Works in
progress
Q&A
Meta data is worse?
Unquestionable
When is a text sent?
What was said
When hoarding, time
for anything else?
Loves being an explorer
...
Not so much
It is fun to do
Express his self
Amazing discoveries
About his father
Sleep patterns
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