A visualisation of trading on eBay leads Jim Giles to view commercial records in a new light
Before Us is the Salesman’s House by Jer Thorp and Mark Hansen, ZERO1 Biennial, Silicon Valley, California, until 8 December
WHAT does the word “data” mean to you? Unless you are a scientist or computer programmer, the term probably conjures up something rather dull, like an agricultural quota or an Excel file. “When I talk to people about data, they say ‘spreadsheet’,” says software artist Jer Thorp. That’s a problem, he adds, because a lot of important data sets are also something else: cultural artefacts that we all…
