Dopplr presents the Personal Annual Report 2008: freshly generated for you, and Barack Obama…
We’ve generated what we call the Personal Annual Report for all our users. It’s a unique-to-you PDF of data, visualisations and factoids about your travel in 2008, that we’re delivering over the next week via email to every Dopplr user who travelled in 2008.
To give you an example, we thought we’d show you the Personal Annual Report of someone who’s had a very busy 2008 – President Elect Barack Obama.
Download a PDF copy of Barack Obama’s 2008 Dopplr Personal Annual Report from http://dplr.it/obama-report
The main info-visualisation element of the report is the 2008 timeline, where we represent the trips you’ve taken throughout the year, pulling out the places you’ve stayed the longest and, where we can illustrating them with the Creative-Commons-licenced, Flickr-sourced photography we use on our new city pages.
Then, in the main body of the report there are a number of other things from your 2008 we try and surface, such as the fellow travellers that you coincide with most on your trips.
There’s the by-now-familiar Dopplr map of your travels which in Obama’s case tells a very interesting tale based on the shape of his campaign. You can see the perhaps-unusual whistlestop trips to Europe, the Middle-East, and Afghanistan – the barely-visible dots of which indicate the brevity of those stops.
Taking a closer look at the USA, the pattern of the campaign becomes more apparent. Larger circles correspond to battleground states during the campaign and other notable events can be seen, such as the visit made due to the sad illness and passing of Obama’s grandmother, registering as a circle over Hawaii.
As a man with strong views on climate-change, the environment and energy, the President-Elect will no doubt be very interested in the carbon estimate of his travels during the campaign as calculated by AMEE.
We’ve deliberately chosen a provocative visualisation here – a scale of the equivalent CO2 yearly output of Hummer SUVs to convey the estimate in concrete terms. Many of us after all would think very hard about driving such a vehicle, perhaps harder than we do about taking a flight.
While we imagine that few of you have had a year like Barack Obama’s we really hope you enjoy receiving your Personal Annual Report – look out for it in your email. As per usual, we’d love to hear what you think of it, and what reflections you have on your 2008 in travel.
P.s. We generated the Obama example from publically-available data on the Obama campaign as recorded by the Washington Post. As far as we know, Mr. Obama isn’t really a Dopplr user. Yet…
Acknowledgements:
The Dopplr Personal Annual Report was definitely inspired by things like The Day-to-Day Data Exhibition, Lucy Kimbell’s LIX project, Nicholas Felton’s annual reports and even, Schott’s Miscellany.
For Barack Obama’s timeline, we supplemented the city images with some excellent CC-Attribution licenced imagery from Flickr users Gongus, Matthias Winkelmann, Wendy Piersall, Spotbott and Beard Papa.
Fantastic idea. Nicely executed, and a great example with the travels of Barack Obama.
Looking forward to mine already. Happy travels in 2009!
Where can I the report for my own dopplr account from?
@Dan W – we’ll be mailing them directly to users, so look out for it in your inbox early next week!
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Ooops, spotted that at the bottom of the post. That’ll teach me not to skim.
Wonderful! Love the fact Obama coincided with his running mate and competitor more than his wife :)
I have massive CO2 footprint envy of Obama right now.
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This is brilliant. Thanks for posting this and making it into something that’s (potentially) tangible. Printable data viz seems to be the new hotness in ‘09. I approve. Cheers.
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Is there a way to turn off the Your Carbon link? Quite frankly, AGW is a pile of shit, and I REALLY REALLY resent having it shoved in my face.
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Nice one Matt and team. It’s good to see that the visualisations you used to do for us at work are now seeing a much wider audience!
Re the Hummers thing — you don’t seem to say how many miles the Hummer has driven in a year… is Obama equivalent to 4.2 Hummers being locked in a garage all year? Or 4.2 Hummers being driven constantly? Or the average usage in the US? Or is it 4.2 times the combined carbon output of all Hummers in the world?
The figures might be more meaningful if you could share…
Happy new year!
Brendan.
Simply brilliant! Good work Dopplrs!
This is awesome! I think every social network should prepare a personal report every year :)
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This is a fantastic idea ! I just updated my 2008 travels, would love to receive this in the email too if possible.
http://www.dopplr.com/traveller/chanc/public
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Chris – unfortunately the generation of the reports was a major undertaking done as a batch process throughout last week – so if you’ve only just updated your travels for 2008, we may have missed some or all of them. Apologies for that. We’ll be definitely be continuing to create visualisations and reflections of your travel throughout 2009, however.
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The choice of the Hummer H3 was cute, but trite. You could have used a Mercedes Benz S600 sedan, which has worse gas mileage than the H3. But then your comment “Many of us after all would think very hard about driving such a vehicle” perhaps wouldn’t ring quite so true. There’s a lot of chest-pounding about big gas-guzzling American SUVs, but not quite the same amount of self-awareness about big gas-guzzling Euro sedans.
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Where’s my 2009 Annual Report? It’s the end of March already.
I don’t recall ever receiving my annual report.
Can it be downloaded from the Dopplr site? Or is it possible to have it resent?