Jer Thorp: Make data more human

Jer Thorp works in the New York Times labs to design big data visualizations, and his great presentation from TEDxVancouver was just posted.

Jer Thorp creates beautiful data visualizations to put abstract data into a human context. At TEDxVancouver, he shares his moving projects, from graphing an entire year’s news cycle, to mapping the way people share articles across the internet.

Jer Thorp’s work focuses on adding meaning and narrative to huge amounts of data as a way to help people take control of the information that surrounds them.

He’s been involved in some great big data projects that I have posted about here on the blog previously, like OpenPaths.

Comments

[Sarah Dugo]

Thank you for introducing Jer Thorp's awesome visual data collection into my awareness. Data is all around us and I love that he has has humanized it & thereby created a depth of understanding. I was especially intrigued by his connection work on the 911 memorial.