Börkur Sigurbjörnsson
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Urban Data Stories
Urban Data Stories are narrated analyses of urban data sets where we shed light on a particular urban aspect. The stories are a simplified version of a Urban Data Insights service offering by urbanixm. The Urban Data Insights help local panning authorities and property developers to explore local challenges and opportunities through a bottom-up analysis
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Urbanixm Widgets WordPress Plugin
At Urbanixm we harvest documents from the web and extract and curate information about the implementation and impact or urban policy and interventions. In order to create a proof-of-concept for the curated knowledge-base we developed a WordPress plugin that provides widgets for interacting with the information. The widgets are written in React.js and utilizes Leaflet
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Urbanixm Content Classification
At Urbanixm we harvest documents from the web and extract information about the implementation and impact or urban policy and interventions. At the early stage of the content processing pipeline we judge whether a document is relevant to urbanism. At a later stage we curate relevant document paragraphs with information such as which urbanism topics
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Skorradalur — Reykjavík Culture Night
I woke up in a familiar settings on this last morning of my 2013 Icelandic Ring Road trip. After a couple of weeks of sleeping in a tent, trailer and rental apartment, it was nice to wake up in my own bed in the family’s summer house in Skorradalur. We did not stay long in
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Akureyri — Skorradalur
It was friday and the weeklong visit to Akureyri had come to an end. It was time make our way onward toward Reykjavík. I could however not leave Akureyri without visiting the swimming pool. Hence, I played the bad son and while my parents were finalizing the packing and cleaning the rental apartment, I headed
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Dettifoss & Mývatn
Shortly before 10 am I drove into the parking lot at information center in Reykjahlíð by the lake Mývatn. I had a 10 am appointment with a couple of Catalan friends who were also driving the Icelandic Ring Road. We had planned to go together on a tour of the north-east. Our first stop was
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Tröllaskagi
Today I went for a Wednesday excursion with my parents along the Tröllaskagi — Troll-peninsula — to Siglufjörður. We drove from Akureyri, along the western coast of Eyjafjörður, through Dalvík to Ólafsfjörður. Between Dalvík and Ólafsfjörður there is a one-way tunnel with plenty of meeting points where cars can give way for oncoming traffic. It
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Þverá-Golf
I spent the first part of the day playing golf with my nephews at the Þverá golf course in Eyjafjörður. It was nice to play golf again after 13 years of inactivity — not that I was ever an active golfer. I am not one of those lazy golfers that try to minimize the number
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Hrísey
Spent another day chilling in the Eyjafjörður area. Quite literally floated on Ejafjörður while visiting the fjord’s biggest island, Hrísey. We got a cold reception as we walked on shore in Hrísey after a 15 minute boat trip from Árskógssandur. The wind blew from the arctic north and was, to say the least, rather chilly.
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Pointkast
Spent the day chilling with my family at a vacation house in Eyjafjörður. While some played golf, I played the less renowned game Pointkast — a fun garden game with the purpose of collecting points by throwing a wooden cylinder at other wooden cylinders scattered over the lawn. After heroically beating everyone at that game