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I was inspired by Nick Fenton's personal annual reports because the data he created about his daily life was incredibly interesting when visualized. I had never thought what everyday-life data would look like if it was recorded for a long period of time and then visualized.

Another inspiration was manyeye's (from the video screening we were assigned last week) data visualization tools for every day people. At one point in the video, the presenters pulled up a tree of someone's wedding, and they were able to sort it by the labels the person added in. So, I wanted to find something that was already recorded about me and I thought "Facebook" and the rest was history.

One last inspiration were those questions that news stations use for their arguably unusual data, or random data statistics that 'UberFacts' posts on twitter. While the data I used is accurate and true, it doesn't exactly say too much about how social I've been in these years. Of course there is a relationship, but it's not the entire story.

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