The 2009 Feltron Annual Report

Whether we like it or not, our world runs on numbers. Some people more than others embrace numbers and data. Nick Felton, for one embraces numbers.

Like a major corporation, Nick has been publishing an annual report on data from his life since 2005, and this year's report is now available. The data used for Nick's report was accumulated by distributing cards with an online survey URL to each person with whom he had a meaningful encounter.

The report is gorgeous, with elaborate data visualizations, charts, and graphs all over the place. It's a marvel just to peek at.

But it does leave me feeling a bit strange. Can a life and all of the complex interactions involved with it really be boiled down to some pretty graphs? Should it be?

Is this something you could see yourself wanting to do? How would you feel being asked to fill out a survey for a project like this?

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