Jer Thorp

Jer Thorp's analysis of the word "data" in 10,325 New York Times stories written between 1984 and 2018 shows a distinct trend: among the words most closely associated with "data," we find not only its classic companions "information" and "digital," but also a variety of new neighbours—from "scandal" and "misinformation" to "ethics," "friends," and "play." To live in data in...