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Jer Thorp

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Artist, author, birder & nudibranch enthusiast. Author of Living in Data (2021) and We Were Out Counting Birds (2025). GONE FROM HERE. Posts are automated.
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I'm the co-founder of The Office for Creative Research, and an Adjunct Professor at New York University's ITP program. From 2010 to 2012, I was the Data Artist in Residence at the New York Times R&D Group.

You can find a rambling selection of my software-based, data-focused artwork at blog.blprnt.com. Recently I have collaborated with NASA, visualized 138 years of Popular Science, and have had work exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan.

You can watch my TED.com talk here. Recent ta…

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Every bird counted on Point Pelee , Ont. in one year

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By Sara Johnson, Jer Thorp Verified
| Canadian Geographic Verified
Every bird counted on Point Pelee, Ont. in one year Artist Jer Thorp creates a visual checklist of every bird counted in one year on the southernmost point of mainland Canada A red-headed woodpecker photographed in Point Pelee National Park. (Photo: Sebastian Simic/Can Geo Photo Club) Expand Image Jer Thorp’s “Every Bird” poster series is proof that big data can be beautiful.
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A Time for Invitation.

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By Jer Thorp Verified
| Medium
Last Monday morning, I went looking for a cuckoo. The one I was searching for was the yellow-billed variety, a robin-sized bird with a white breast and long striped tail. They have thick curved beaks whose bottom halves are the exact color of a lemon. Cuckoos shouldn’t be tough birds to spot, but they are. Notoriously, emphatically so. They’re unreasonably good at staying out of sight. My friend Mike gave me a solid piece of birding advice a few years ago: Never chase a cuckoo.
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Installation And Maintenance Guide

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By Jer Thorp Verified
| Medium
By Jer Thorp Last week I watched a viral video of a commencement where the speaker urged the new grads to build and tune their "idiot detection systems". It's a good speech and even better advice. As we head into 2024 and another year of hype around AI, I'd urge everyone to make sure their AI Grift Detectors are fully functional.
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