Living in Data

Data artist in residence at The New York Times and hugely popular TED speaker Jer Thorp’s passion is visualizing data to uncover its complex aspects and make the formerly invisible visible. To make data more equitable, he defends a decentralized web that would repatriate data’s many stories to the communities who created them.

Data Citizens

Starting in 2009, Thorp experimented on various data sources, including New York Times stories, the influenza genome, and timelines from Avengers comic books.