The Umali Awards

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Welcome to the Umali Awards website. The Umali Awards is a public thank you, an acknowledgement, a celebration of life, an ongoing experiment, and a wordy expression of numbers.

It is an awards show where the awards handed out pertain to how I've lived my life the previous year. Categories typically include: How I Like My Eggs, Best Dining Out Experience, Best Day, Most Average Meal. Most importantly, the Top 10 people I spoke to (measured by how many days in which I spoke to that person in a calendar year) are announced and recognized. The Umali Awards is a party, a reason to get dressed up, an art event, and one of the major ways this data-keeping project is expressed to the world.

Navigate to each year's Awards by clicking on the appropriate graphic. The first four years display only the Top 10 People, these were made ages ago. One day I'll update those pages. There's also a link to the blog, a repository of sorts of data visualization experiments and thoughts on the how and whys of keeping track; and there's also a link to the Umali Awards Flickr group, a repository of pictorial evidence of all the Umali Awards.

The 14th Annual Umali Awards occurred on July 18, 2015 in a room on the fourth floor of the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design in the historic 3rd Ward of Milwaukee.

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