Analysis of a TED Talk by Jer Thorp

1. A TED talk by
Jer Thorp

2. When we are creating history, we are taking
things that happened in the past and stitching
them together in the form of a story
Data and History

3. He creates beautiful data visualisations putting abstract
data into human context
At TEDxVancouver, he shares his moving projects, from
graphing an entire year's news cycle, to mapping the way
people share articles across the internet.
Source : Ted.com

5. Jer Thorp worked on a piece on the 9/11 memorial in
Manhattan
The names are not laid out in alphabetical or chronological
order, but instead they are laid out in a way in which the
relationships between the people who were killed are
embodies in the memorial.
#Make data more human

8. Graphics showing a full year’s news, all the
people , and how they are connected into a
single graphic

9. Project – Just Landed
People tweeting in twitter about their landing status into their
conversations.
Plotting those people’s trips in hope s to use their social network and
the data left behind to provide a model of how people move which
would be valuable to epidemiologists among other people

12. Gives us a better
understanding of the
type of information
that we are sharing

13. Builds empathy for
the people involved
in the system

14. This is turn results
in fundamental
respect.

15. We start to deal
with issues like
privacy

16. These numbers aren’t just
numbers
They are tethered to pieces of the real world
They carry weight

17. Start thinking data in a human
context

18. Marketing Professor,
IIM Lucknow
Created by Dibya Maheswari,
Accenture Solutions Private Limited
during an internship under
Professor Sameer Mathur, IIM
Lucknow Dibya Maheswari,
Accenture Soln. Pvt Ltd.
Sameer Mathur