“Everyone’s talking about data right now,” says Jer Thorp. The term “information overload” has shifted from a narrow concern of neuroscience to a common-to-the-point-of-cliche preoccupation in our ...

From Living In Data: A Citizen’s Guide to a Better Information Future (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021), by Jer Thorp (all images courtesy the publisher) Data is not new. For tens of thousands of ...

Living in data -- I data you, you data me (we all data together) -- Data's dark matter -- By canoe and caravan -- Drunk on Zima -- Number of grown sheep that were sheared -- Do/until -- A lossy kind ...

In the wake of data-driven scandals, including those involving Cambridge Analytica and Facebook, the conversation surrounding ownership of data has either been increasingly negative or indifferent.

136 West 21st Street, 11th floor, New York, NY 10011 BLDGBLOG founder Geoff Manaugh and The New York Times data artist-in-residence Jer Thorpe meet for a moderated conversation. Presented by the MFA ...