Feltron Annual Report

99% Invisible

SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars

Design, Arts

4.8 • 28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2011

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Nicholas Felton is an information designer. Since 2005, he has tabulated thousands upon thousands of tiny measurements in his life and designed stunning graphs and maps and created concise infographics that detail that year’s activities.

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0:00.0	We get support from UC Davis, a globally ranked university working to solve the world's most pressing problems in food, energy, health, education, and the environment.
0:10.0	UC Davis researchers collaborate and innovate in California and around the globe to find
0:14.2	transformational solutions.
0:16.1	It's all part of the university's mission to promote quality of life for all living things.
0:20.1	Find out more at 21st century.
0:21.9	UC Davis. edu.c. dot edu
0:27.0	this is 99% invisible I'm Roman Mars. The 2009 Feltron annual report.
0:37.0	From this moment on, I want you to record every encounter you have with another person.
0:41.0	Total encounters. One thousand seven hundred sixty.
0:44.8	Each mode of transportation.
0:47.1	Methods of transportation.
0:48.5	23.
0:49.3	Like if I walk through the door, I'm writing down the name of that store.
0:52.4	Total locations reported.
0:54.0	258.
0:55.0	I just want to know every single place that I go.
0:58.0	That's Nicholas Felton, aka Feltron.
1:00.0	I'm just trying to build a super rich data set
1:02.9	data sets that he will interrogate at the end of the year
1:05.4	designing pie charts and bar graphs that are used to create a concise
1:09.1	infographic that tells the story of Nicholas Felton's year.
1:12.8	Is it going to be through the lens of like my favorite ATM
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