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JER THORP

Author, Artist, Speaker

Binoculars to Binomials

Summer Cohorts are open for registration!

Birding & data visualization together at last! Join me for a five module online cohort class for coders who are interested in becoming birders and for birders who want to dive into creative code!

As featured on the American Birding Podcast!

Register for morning cohort

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Summer cohorts start May 14th and meet every two weeks for 10 weeks.

Every Bird

Visualizations of birding data from around the world

FieldKit

FielKit is an open environmental sensing platform

Herald Harbinger (2018)

Herald Harbinger (2018)

A permanent public data sculpture linking a city to a glacier

Artist in the Archive (2018)

Artist in the Archive (2018)

A podcast for data, archival & library aficionados

St. Louis Map Room (2017)

St. Louis Map Room (2017)

A community space for data exploration through map making

We Were Strangers Once, Too (2017)

We Were Strangers Once, Too (2017)

A data sculpture on immigration in Times Square

Floodwatch (2015)

Floodwatch (2015)

Browser extension empowering web users against targeted ads

Into the Okavango (2013)

Into the Okavango (2013)

A Live Data expedition in the Okavango Delta

Cloudy with a Chance of Pain (2016)

Cloudy with a Chance of Pain (2016)

A crowd-sourced investigation into pain & the weather

A Sort of Joy (2015)

A Sort of Joy (2015)

Performing MoMA's 120,00 object database

Infinite Weft (2015)

Infinite Weft (2015)

A computational weaving collaboration

Time of the Game

Time of the Game

Avengers, Assembled (2012)

Avengers, Assembled (2012)

Visualizing comics data

The Room Would Be Good Enough (2012)

The Room Would Be Good Enough (2012)

Narrative data installation about the world's hotels

Before Us Is The Salesman's House

Before Us Is The Salesman's House

Exploring Ebay as a cultural artifact

Exo (2012)

Interactive exploration of Kepler data

138 Years of Popular Science (2011)

138 Years of Popular Science (2011)

Text-based data visualization

OpenPaths (2012)

OpenPaths (2012)

A secure, personal locker for location data

Cascade (2011)

Visualizing sharing networks of NYTimes content

Good Morning! (2009)

Good Morning! (2009)

Visualization of the world saying good morning on Twitter

Just Landed (2009)

Just Landed (2009)

Visualization of world travel extracted from tweets

365 / 360 (2009)

365 / 360 (2009)

Visualizing years of NYTimes News

9/11 Memorial (2009)

9/11 Memorial (2009)

Names Placement Algorithm

Glocal Image Breeder (2007)

Glocal Image Breeder (2007)

An interface to explore images through cross-breeding

tree.growth (2006)

tree.growth (2006)

Generative trees made from custom-written algorithms

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