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FlowingData's personal viz contest winner

David Pescovitz at 10:22 am Wed, Sep 10, 2008

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FlowingData held a "self surveillance" contest where readers submitted visualizations of data they collected about themselves or their surroundings. The winner is Tim Graham who collected and visualized data about the email spam he receives, how much he drinks (not just alcohol), and, as seen above, where it hurts. Stunning examples of what Gary Wolf and Kevin Kelly call the quantified self, or "tools for knowing your own mind and body." FlowingData's Personal Visualization Project winner (FlowingData.com, thanks Sean Ness!)

David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

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Anonymous

Sounds like something taken from the Order in Cory’s short story “The Things that Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away.”
jahknow

See also this recent piece from the Wash. Post.
David Pescovitz

Thanks JAHKNOW! I posted to the front page.