The Year 2016

This annual report is compiled & pulled from data from the period 1/1/2016 to 12/31/2016.
This is the 9th year Lillian has published an annual report. These go out in the mail (for free!) to friends who sign up for the mailing list. If you’d like to receive zines, please sign up here.

The year 2016: annual report

This report was inspired by the design of The Economist magazine and was produced in Adobe InDesign. The fonts are the Officina Sans & Officina TT suites. The transit map font is InfoText BB. Plane icon by Yeoul Kim & list icon by Artworkbean from Noun Project, used under creative commons license.

The report comes from data collected between 1/1/2016 and 12/31/2016.

Movement & GPS data were collected using Foursquare’s swarm app and Moves on an iPhone 4S & iPhone SE. Geodata was visualized using Moves-o-Scope, TileMill, and MMapper.

Data on sleep, caffeine, alcohol, mood, weather, burritos, and miles biked were collected “manually” in the Lumen Trails Daily Tracker app and were visualized using R and Adobe Illustator. All data analysis was conducted using SQL, Numbers, and R. Financial data was collected, analyzed, and visualized by YNAB 4 with some help from Adobe Illustrator.

The average day wheels were inspired by Nicholas Feltron’s annual report.

Aaron Parecki contributed invaluably to the visualization of the sleep data using PHP (and some lovely hand data cleaning.)

This report, which is the 9th annual quantified self report by Lillian Karabaic, involved 31.6 hours of design, 5.4 hours of writing, and 6.2 hours of data work.

Special thanks to Aaron Parecki & Dora for data & cuddle support (respectively) and Cameron Booth for his transit map design tutorial.

70 thoughts on “The Year 2016

  1. Every piece of data, no matter how small, contributes to building a comprehensive picture of Lillian’s life and activities in 2016, presented aesthetically and scientifically thanks to professional graphic tools and sophisticated analysis processes.

  2. The immediate and gratifying response you get from your strokes in Golf Orbit is quite remarkable. The graphics and audio in this thrilling golf game update in real time as you make adjustments to your approach or hit the hole in one.

  3. Incredible dedication and design! Love how data, personal insight, and creativity come together—such a unique and inspiring annual tradition.

  4. This annual report is amazing! The attention to detail, from design to data collection, is impressive. I love how personal habits, travel, and even burritos are tracked. It’s inspiring to see such a thorough, well-presented self-analysis.

  5. This is such a charming, nerdy-labour-of-love kind of project — a handcrafted zine that treats a whole year of life like a data story. I love how the tools range from SQL and R to TileMill and InDesign, but it still feels very personal and human, not just “quantified.”

  6. I love that you’ve been doing this for 9 years now — there’s something really special about having a tangible record of your year. I always look forward to these mailouts. The detail you put into documenting your experiences really comes through, and it makes me want to be more intentional about keeping track of my own life. Have you ever thought about turning any of these reports (Seedance2)

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  8. I always find it fascinating when someone commits to documenting their year like this. The idea of compiling 12 months of moments, data, and reflections into something tangible is both nostalgic and practical (seedance notes). There’s something about flipping through a physical zine that digital formats can’t quite replicate. I imagine 2016 had its fair share of ups and downs, and having that record preserved feels like giving your past self a voice. Anyone else keep a similar yearly archive?

  9. The collaboration between Siemens and SAP for energy asset management makes a lot of sense, especially with all the pressure on energy companies to hit sustainability targets while keeping costs manageable. I’m curious how their joint platform actually handles the data integration across both ecosystems in practice—does it feel seamless or are there still friction points during deployment? On a somewhat related note, I’ve been experimenting with Seedance 2 (Seedance 2.1). 1 for creating short explainer clips about industry topics, and the results have been surprisingly usable for internal presentations.

  10. Nine years of annual reports is honestly impressive consistency, and mailing them out for free is such a personal touch (supporting link https://vidcio.com/text-to-video ). I used to do yearly recaps on my old blog but fell off after year three. Seeing something like this makes me want to pick the habit back up. I did end up using a free AI video generator from text to put together a little visual recap for myself, and it made the whole process way more fun than just writing paragraphs.

  11. The annual report is compiled and pulled from data that you have shared here is good and motivational for the people who like to read and learn from these reports. When I saw many people are searching for these updates they come here and get what they are in need of.

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