Gallery: An Infographics Genius Plots Out Another Insanely Detailed Year of His Life

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    Data visualization Nicholas Felton is back with another amazing annual report of his personal data.
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    In previous editions, Felton focused on activities, interests, and geographies, but the 2013 edition is focused heavily on communication.
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    Felton tracked all his electronic messages, but also transcribed interpersonal conversations with friends and strangers.
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    Each dot on this graph represents one of 5,699 correspondents with the location of the dot and vector lines representing the number, frequency, and direction of the communications.
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    Felton tracked the relative use of each communication over time, as well as the participants involved and the length of time each exchange took.
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    This chart serves as an overview breaking down message volume by channel over time, both by calendar year and time of day.
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    Reciprocity was another theme and this visualization helped identify the direction of communication and which correspondents engaged in dialogues.
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    Geography has been a driving force in prior reports and this edition tracks the locations Felton contacted and places where conversations occurred.
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    Felton ended 2013 discussing an additional 462 locations outside of the spots he and his conversation partners physically resided in.
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    Felton used 32,881 different words from the Oxford english dictionary in outgoing messages and analyzed the frequency of use using a software tool called the Natural Language Toolkit. The resulting report gives a sense of which words were used most often and which served as notable outliers.
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    Felton repeated the process, analyzing the 7,673,242 words that were sent to him with similarly interesting findings e.g. Felton received 54,693 exclamation points.
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    Felton's favorite visualization in the report is this topic graph which documents the frequency with which he used a given phrase over time.
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