I am excited to learn that a photo I took at Eyeo Festival is being considered for use in an upcoming indie magazine. The magazine focuses on the best recent conferences and events. I love to document events I attend. I’m glad Eyeo, my favorite, will be included.

Documentation of what and where we have been, what we’ve done and what life holds was an important trend at the Eyeo Festival. Not everyone focuses on Big Data. Instead, some of us focus on visualizing our lives and experiences. This was especially true of those working in two dimensions and those creating beauty with data, like Nicholas Feltron and Stephanie Posavec. While network visualizations wow and interactive interactivity amaze, there was something wonderful about getting hands-on with the data.

I looked at my recent stats on Flickr, where my Eyeo Festival photos are posted, to see how much documentation plays a role in my interestingness. Curiously, of the top 10 most-viewed photos, 8 were documentary shots

 and 2 were creative shots.

Documentation of my odd jumble of travel, yoga, food trucks and pride marches has made me more interesting to the flickr-verse. Flickr becomes more than the online repository of the pixel data of my life. It shows me basic analytics on my account as well as well as providing opportunities for journalists and publishers to license my photos for their publications. (Of course, the 2,000+ photos there are small cross-section of the 25,000+ on my hard drives at home). So documentation of the world around me and making my own data available is yet another way I visualize information, this time of my life.