Infosthetics has a nice writeup of the Eyeo event from Jan Willem Tulp. In his Day 3 writeup, he discusses the presentations from infovis gurus Ben Fry and Nicholas Felton.
His talk was all about the “Annual Reports that he has been creating for some years now. He explained his fascination with measuring all sorts of aspects, like the number of plats killed, number of people met, and number of miles traveled (which included the number of miles in Grand Theft Auto). For Nicholas measuring everything is truly a way of living: “Every time I drink coffee or see Michael J. Fox, I have to take a note”. His 2010 Annual Report is about his father, who also seemed to have the same fascination of collecting and recording everything. It was great to see how he used services like Google Maps and Google Image Search in his CSI-like mission to find locations of images that his father had taken, but had no description or whatsoever of where the picture was taken.
via Day 3 at Eyeo: the Practice of Digital Information & Art – information aesthetics.
