TEDxVancouver - Jer Thorp - The Weight of Data

Jer Thorp is an artist and educator from Vancouver, Canada, currently living in New York. Coming from a background in genetics, his digital art practice explores the many-folded boundaries between science and art. Recently, his work has been featured by The New York Times, The Guardian, Scientific American, The New Yorker, and the CBC. Thorp's award-winning software-based work has been exhibited in Europe, Asia, North America, South America, and Australia and all over the web. Most recently, he has presented at Carnegie Mellon's School of Art, at Eyebeam in New York City, and at IBM's Center for Social Software in Cambridge. He is currently Data Artist in Residence at the New York Times, and is an adjunct Professor in New York University's ITP program.

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[elvisgilmore]

Want to watch his live shows

[KilgoreParadise]

Hello big brother is correct- however- Jer Thorp's "bring into context the human aspect" is an opportunity to see the dangers in such software.

[thiakx]

well, depending on how much you are willing to code, there are plenty of open source libraries around for visualizing data: flash library FLARE, D3.js, protovis, R programming,Prefuse, Prefuse Flare, Impure, Mondrian, Processing.js, Python etc

[newwildlife]

Where can I find any GNU or other Open Source software that provide data visualization?

[Paulo Bueno]

To me, the word is "Hello Big Brother!"...

[sfcawritersvids]

poet sfcawriter humanizes data and politics daily and really appreciates this video

[Jer Thorp]

I know... I know! It's funny - I knew I made that mistake immediately after it left my mouth. Profuse apologies to both paleontologists and archeologists everywhere.

[Andrew Shooner]

Archaeologists don't dig up dinosaurs.

[ohwhererehwho]

Parson's Institute for Information Mapping (PIIM) and the website of Edward Tufte and are both good places to begin..

[Timmy Siwula]

Great video! If I have an interest in data visualization, where can I go to get involved?