“Everyone’s talking about data right now,” says Jer Thorp. The term “information overload” has shifted from a narrow concern of neuroscience to a common-to-the-point-of-cliche preoccupation in our ...

From Living In Data: A Citizen’s Guide to a Better Information Future (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021), by Jer Thorp (all images courtesy the publisher) Data is not new. For tens of thousands of ...

Living in data -- I data you, you data me (we all data together) -- Data's dark matter -- By canoe and caravan -- Drunk on Zima -- Number of grown sheep that were sheared -- Do/until -- A lossy kind ...

A new algorithm called BigGAN creates detailed photos from scratch, representing a leap forward for AI. But it may come at a steep price. Cascade, developed in the Times R&D Lab by Jer Thorp and UCLA ...

In the wake of data-driven scandals, including those involving Cambridge Analytica and Facebook, the conversation surrounding ownership of data has either been increasingly negative or indifferent.

136 West 21st Street, 11th floor, New York, NY 10011 BLDGBLOG founder Geoff Manaugh and The New York Times data artist-in-residence Jer Thorpe meet for a moderated conversation. Presented by the MFA ...

Twitter is a coming goldmine for data visualization, given all the data it provides. The projects we’ve seen are still early stage, but Jer Thorp‘s been one of the best early experimenters. His new ...

Pratt’s School of Design is excited to welcome Jer Thorp, an avid birder and naturalist who teaches about the overlap between nature, code, and community. Jer Thorp is a Canadian-born artist, author, ...

Artist Jer Thorp has harnessed the internet’s oversharing tendencies for good, compiling 36 hours worth of "just landed in…" tweets into one beautiful 3D visualization. Titled “Just Landed”, Thorp’s ...

After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order “In 1900,” explains novelist and essayist Dasgupta (Capital) in this brilliant study, “only about 25 per cent of the world’s population lived in ...