# Make data more human

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxVancouver
- Speaker: Jer Thorp
- Year: 2011
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Art, architecture and design
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/jer_thorp_make_data_more_human)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Jer Thorp creates beautiful data visualizations to put abstract data into a 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.

## Lectures

1. [Make data more human](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/jer_thorp_make_data_more_human/2e003f073299), 18 min (TED's player)