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Jer Thorp
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Jer Thorp is an artist, writer, birder & educator from Brooklyn
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Nov 18, 2025 ∙ 7 min
Of A Feather
Feathers colored by data from Wikipedia descriptions This is a story about dead birds in drawers, xkcd, natural language processing and feathers. It's about color, quixotic pursuits and art made from data. It starts in a parking lot. It's December, 2020, and I'm in Breezy Point, Queens, a neighbourhood that's long been known for retired cops and just this week is known for being the only zipcode in NYC that sent in zero applications for Zohran Mamdani's transition team. I've just finished...
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Jul 8, 2025 ∙ 5 min
A Day With(out) Data: A Participatory Visualization Recipe
A collectively authored visualization of the datasets that touch our lives during a day. Last month I flew to Pittsburgh to attend an...
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Jun 6, 2025 ∙ 3 min
The First Annual Binoculars to Binomials Retreat: September in Santa Marta!
In March, I waded across a shallow river and hiked a short distance along a jungle path to arrive at one of the most remarkable places...
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