Video: How one data tracker lives by the numbers.

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Dec. 13 2010 11:11 AM

Life as Annual Report

How one data tracker lives by the numbers.

New York graphic designer Nicholas Felton tracks where he goes, what he eats, and a million other tiny details about his daily life. Then he packages the data in beautiful annual reports. The publications used to be aimed just at friends and family, but now you can see them too.

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