He holds an adjunct faculty position at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in the Interactive Telecommunications Program.

[3] He was the Data Artist in Residence at the New York Times in 2012, where he created Cascade, a tool for visualizing how stories were shared across social media.

[6][7][8] He and Jake Barton created an algorithm that arranged the names of those killed in the 9/11 attacks, respecting their familial, personal and business relationships with each other; his visualization of their relatedness is exhibited at the 9/11 Memorial in New York City.

[9][10] Thorp collaborated with Mark Hansen, Ben Rubin, and Local Projects to create an interactive timeline of the attacks.

[12] Thorp is the co-creator of a data-based public artwork called Herald / Harbinger in downtown Calgary.