What if you could rebuild London from scratch? Epic Games Store has teamed-up with Zaha Hadid to create a photorealistic version of the city that anyone can explore and edit 👉 bit.ly/3XNpKno Built as an island in Fortnite, Re:Imagine London lets players adapt the urban

Our second call for papers for #AAG2025 in Detroit is now out for the session 'Data, Housing and Planning'. For this session datastoriesMU are partnering with Taylor Shelton from Georgia State University. Please see our blog for further details: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie/?p=483

We've just posted a rundown of our second @IGC2024Dub session on 'Critical Perspectives in Housing and Planning'. This session included talks by Dr. Maedhbh Nic Lochlainn, Dr. Sophia Maalsen and Dr. Danielle Kerrigan. Visit our blog for further details: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie/?p=495

In August our researcher Sam Mutter attended the RGS-IBG conference in London with our resident artist Augustine O'Donoghue to discuss creative new approaches to housing activism. See our latest blog post for further details: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie/?p=508

📢 Reminder: only one week left to submit an abstract for Data Life!

Earlier this month Data Stories hosted its own two day workshop featuring key voices from Ireland and across the globe on 'The Data Politics of Planning and Housing'. See our latest blog post for a full writeup including abstracts and slides: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie/?p=527

The Data Stories team have been super busy. In the final post of our recent series you can hear about the participation of researcher Juliette Davret and resident artist Joan Somers Donnelly in the 5th Data Power conference 'Beyond Data Universalism': datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie/?p=543

Google Labs' 'Infinite Wonderland' uses A.I. to create limitless illustrations in the style of Victorian illustrator John Tenniel and others. bit.ly/3zDuXF5

Meta Orion AR Glasses Interview Dives Deep Into Details Like Resolution, Battery Life, & More The deets 👉 roadtovr.com/meta-orion-int…

In September Data Stories post-doctoral researcher Danielle Hynes attended the 2024 Vienna International Summer School on New Social Housing TU Wien to learn about the Viennese model of social housing. Read about Danielle’s experience on our blog: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie/?p=555

Next week I'm running XR Masterclasses for Beta Festival with Gareth Young and the team behind immersive experience Noire. Learn more and sign up for 'Exploring Activist Narratives through Immersive Storytelling' via the festival event page: 2024.betafestival.ie/events/XR%20Ma…

This is brilliant! 'Reyner Banham Loves Los Santos' Strong approve!

In our latest blogpost our Creative Technologist Oliver Dawkins and Gareth Young from the TRANSMIXR project discuss their recent XR Masterclasses Beta Festival on 'Exploring Activist Narratives through Immersive Storytelling': datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie/?page_id=33

🚀 Just Published: DATA LIFE Conference Recap! 🌐 Dive into the highlights from the DATA LIFE conference held on November 5th at the University of Copenhagen. 🔗 Read the full recap: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie/?p=587

We've just made it much easier to reuse the data on Our World in Data! Check out our two new features: enhanced data downloads and the Chart Data API — both accessible for every one of our charts via the data download button in the lower right corner.

I am very impressed with Google Deepmind's Genie 2 model. However, it's not really clear to me that there is 3D 'world model' here as opposed to a generally consistent 2D image response to directional input. By all means prove this sceptic wrong 🙊 deepmind.google/discover/blog/…

Holidays have begun...catching up on Tuesday and Wednesday's 'Hybrid Live Coding Interfaces' workshops: hybrid-livecode.pubpub.org/workshop2024

#VibeCoding - The art of technical debt.