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Data in an Alien Context: Kepler Visualization Source Code
Last year, I released a video visualization of the 1236 exoplanets identified by the NASA’s Kepler mission. Since then, there have been another 1091 candidates identified, and I thought it’d be a good...
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Infinite Weft (Exploring the Old Aesthetic)
How can a textile function as a digital object? This is a central question of Infinite Weft, a project that I’ve been working on for a the last few months. The project is a collaboration with my...
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Avengers, Assembled (and Visualized) – Part 1
This post is about comics. It’s also about superheroes, robots, Norse gods, shrinking men, and women made of light – so it makes sense that it was inspired in the first place by a 10 year-old. Last...
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Avengers, Assembled (and Visualized) – Part 2
Last week I shared a set of visualizations I made, exploring the history of The Avengers – the Marvel comic series which first appeared in 1963, and was last week released as a bombastic, blockbuster...
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Infinite Weft @ Bridge Gallery until October 18th
Since early in the year, I have been working with my mother Diane Thorp to produce hand-woven textiles that contain non-repeating patterns. Weaving Information Files (WIFs) are produced via a...
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Before Us is the Salesman’s House
When the dust settles on the 21st century, and all of the GIFs have finished animating, the most important cultural artifacts left from the digital age may very well be databases. How will the...
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New Year, New Company: Introducing The Office for Creative Research
In the fall of 2010, my friend Mike Young invited me to come to the New York Times R&D Lab, to discuss a new visualization project that was just starting to get off of the ground. That project...
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In 1968, in his seminal essay Systems Esthetics, Jack Burnham wrote: The specific function of modern didactic art has been to show that art does not reside in material entities, but in relations...
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Data live utilitarian lives. From the moment they are conceived, as measurements of some thing or system or person, they are conscripted to the cause of being useful. They are fed into algorithms,...
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WordPlay: A Tool for Freeform Language Exploration
When text becomes data it opens up a phenomenal amount of possibility for insight and creative exploration. The problem is that most Natural Language Processing (NPL) tools are hard to use unless you...
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