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Jer Thorp
blog.blprnt.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2009
Jer Thorp, a data artist, writes about data visualization projects, Processing code, and work like the 9/11 memorial name layout.
What HN saysHN commenters link it for his projects, such as the 9/11 memorial names algorithm and the Kepler visualization, and call it interesting.
15HN people shared it
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Most-shared posts
- 1Your Random Numbers – Getting Started with Processing and Data Visualization3 people · 50 points · first shared 2010 · 4 comments on HN
- 2Behind the 9/11 memorial names3 people · 9 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 3NewsAlarm - wiring in to the NYT NewsWire API (with hilarious photo)1 people · 2 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 4Save your iPhone location data and help make the world a better place1 people · 2 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 5Avengers, Assembled (and Visualized)1 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 6Just Landed: Processing, Twitter, MetaCarta & Hidden Data1 people · 2 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 7138 Years of Popular Science Visualized1 people · 1 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 8Introducing the Office for Creative Research1 people · 1 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 9Workshops1 people · 1 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 10Project smart rockets1 people · first shared 2010
- 11Homepage1 people · first shared 2011
- 127 days of source day 5 smart rockets1 people · first shared 2010
- 13Data in an alien context kepler visualization source code1 people · first shared 2016
What HN people wrote when they linked it
blatherard · 2011-06-25
Jer Thorp is the guy who built the visualization tool. He also designed a tool to help layout the names on the 9/11 memorial.
He's got other interesting stuff at his blog, http://blog.blprnt.com/
MindTwister · 2010-11-29
Blog post belonging to the project:
http://blog.blprnt.com/blog/blprnt/project-smart-rockets
and followup http://blog.blprnt.com/blog/blprnt/7-days-of-source-day-5-smart-rocket…
tensafefrogs · 2016-05-30
Here's a different version with source code, not sure if it's the same planets:
http://blog.blprnt.com/blog/blprnt/data-in-an-alien-context-kepler-vis…
maxhawkins · 2011-09-08
The artist, Jer Thorp, has a blog post describing the algorithm. He started with a clustering algorithm then wrote a tool in Processing to review the adjacencies by hand.
http://blog.blprnt.com/blog/blprnt/all-the-names
revorad · 2010-04-14
I would highly recommend learning R (http://www.r-project.org/). It is very easy to directly query databases and R has many visualisation packages, including the awesome ggplot2 (http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/) based on the grammar of graphics. I'm writing an R graphs cookbook and my startup's visualisation product is also built on R (see profile and feel free to email me if you need any help).
Also, look at Ben Fry's Processing books (http://benfry.com/). Here's an introductory tutorial - http://blog.blprnt.com/blog/blprnt/your-random-numbers-getting-started…
If you're familiar with Python, check out Matplotlib (https://www.packtpub.com/matplotlib-python-development/book).