Börkur Sigurbjörnsson
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Urbanixm Knowledge Discovery Engine
The Urbanixm Knowledge Discovery Engine gathers web content about urbanism, extracts information about policies and interventions, and organizes it for search and research.
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Urban Data Stories
Urban Data Stories are narrated analyses of urban datasets that explore a particular aspect of a place. They present a simplified version of Urbanixm’s Urban Data Insights service, which helps local planning authorities and property developers explore local challenges and opportunities through analysis of local data.
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Behaviourly
Behaviourly is a desktop application for designing and testing power-intensity sequences for responsive art objects, then exporting them for use in exhibitions.
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Urbanixm Widgets WordPress Plugin
The Urbanixm Widgets WordPress plugin provides map and chart widgets for exploring information about urban policy and interventions curated by Urbanixm.
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Urbanixm Content Classification
Urbanixm Content Classification uses machine-learning models to identify relevant web pages and annotate passages about urban policy and interventions. It automates parts of the content-curation pipeline, helping process the collection at scale.
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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…