With all the advancements in #AI, I’ve been thinking about the ethical dilemmas these systems might face. Introducing the Executioner Paradox: where AI gets stuck in paradoxical decisions due to conflicting rules. Check out this paper: link.springer.com/article/10.100… #Ethics #Society

Just accepted: Designing #Digital #Voting Systems for #Citizens: Achieving #Fairness and #Legitimacy in #ParticipatoryBudgeting. Joshua C. Yang Carina I. Hausladen Dominik Peters Evangelos Pournaras Regula Hänggli Complexity Digest Carl Gershenson dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…

Our work "Designing Digital Voting Systems for Citizens: Achieving Fairness & Legitimacy in Participatory Budgeting" is now available on #ACM: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…. Thanks to coauthors Carina I. Hausladen Dominik Peters Evangelos Pournaras Regula Hänggli! Here's a few takeaways 👇🏾 1/

Looking for the best color palette? 😔 Check the tool we just created with Joseph: 🎨 2500+ palettes 🐍 Python Library to get them 🔍 Easy-to-use application to find your perfect match python-graph-gallery.com/color-palette-… Feedback welcome, we're working hard on this right now!

Evaluating Urban #BikeSharing Accessibility: A Comparative Study of 40 Cities Worldwide This paper elaborates a comprehensive global comparison of bike-sharing systems by introducing a novel database that aggregates data from 40 cities spkl.io/60114AybU Sachit Mahajan

Exciting updates from greenR! 🌲 -Visualizations: Explore spatial data interactively in R with one line of code using #Mapbox. - #DuckDB integration for speeding up data processing. Link: github.com/sachit27/greenR #RStats #DataScience #GIS #UrbanGreenness #cities #opensource

We're excited to release Global Streetscapes - a massive open dataset of 10 million street-level images labelled with 300+ attributes across 688 cities, supporting urban science and analytics! 🛣️🌏 I am proud of the team led by Yujun Hou Urban Analytics Lab! ual.sg/project/global…

🚨 A new member joins the Raspberry Pi 5 family 🚨 With 2GB of RAM, and priced at just $50, this new entry-level product continues our mission to reduce the cost of high-performance general-purpose computing. Read me: raspberrypi.com/news/2gb-raspb…

Apply to our PhD opening in urban data science and geospatial technologies in our research group in Singapore! ✅ Submit an application directly to our NUS College of Design & Engineering here: cde.nus.edu.sg/graduate/gradu…

[New paper!] Human Digital Twins (HDTs) are here, merging AI and human capabilities to unlock Society 5.0 — but are we ready for the ethical risks? [1/2]

Interview with Sachit Mahajan: How open data is empowering communities to track air quality and protect our planet! 🌍📊#OpenData #ClimateAction #CitizenScience groundtruth.app/the-air-we-bre…

#IndoorAir can be just as polluted as outdoors, or even worse—even in clean cities like #Zurich. We showed how empowering communities with value-sensitive design and co-created #CitizenScience turns curiosity into action for healthier indoor spaces. Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.…

📢Published today: #PhilTransA theme issue, 'Co-creating the future: participatory cities and digital governance'. ow.ly/32BW50TXUlp @coss_eth @justanormaldino Sachit Mahajan Elsa Arcaute Evangelos Pournaras @TrivikV Michael Batty

📢 Call for Papers: Breaking Boundaries in #DePIN! Researchers and industry experts: submit your work & gain visibility in this emerging vertical. Join us in the heart of Europe as we connect the #DePIN community with the broader scientific ecosystem, industry and policymakers.

In der #PrixCarto Kategorie «edu» gewinnt Sachit Mahajan mit seinem an der ETH Zürich entwickelten Tool greenR, ein Open-Source Framework zur Quantifizierung von städtischen Grünflächen. Congratulations, Sachit! github.com/sachit27/greenR

Congratulations to Sachit Mahajan for receiving the #PrixCarto award for his greenR package. greenR was recognized for its new standardized assessment of green spaces, practical relevance, strong scientific foundation, and open implementation. github.com/sachit27/greenR