Research Handbook on Digital Data
Data Stories have a new book chapter out on "The nature and development of a planning data ecosystem" in the new Research Handbook on Digital Data, edited by Aaltonen, Stelmaszak and Lyytinen. Read more on our blog: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?page_id=33
Carla at Land-Use Planning in the Digital Age in Zurich
Carla presenting on Commodity Narratives and Unreal Homes at BeNeLux Geography
New post on Data Stories - Find out about Carla's visit to Zurich for a workshop on tech in planning followed by her presentation of our Unreal Homes project at BeNeLux Geography 2026: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=920
"A core worry is that agents will become autonomous enough to dictate the terms of human participation while still recruiting us for sensing and liability." via Noema www.noemamag.com/ai-agents-ar...
“The golden age of analogue refers to our current fetishization and celebration of the analogue.”
Call For Papers (2/2) - Arts-based and experimental methods in geographical investigation, CIG 2026
Call For Papers (2/2) - Arts-based and experimental methods in geographical investigation, CIG 2026. Hurry as the deadline for abstracts is the 15th March! datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=902
Call For Papers (1/2) - Geographers in the policy arena: Building bridges between academia and evidence-based policymaking, CIG 2026
Call For Papers (1/2) - Geographers in the policy arena: Building bridges between academia and evidence-based policymaking, CIG 2026. Hurry as the deadline for abstracts is the 15th March! datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=900
CFPs inbound! Data Stories are announcing calls for participation in two separate sessions on policy making and arts-based methods at University College Cork for CIG 2026 (6th – 8th May). Check posts below and our blog for full details: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?page_id=33
Juliette presenting in 'Boundaries & boundary concepts in/as datafication' at the University of Amsterdam.
Read our project's latest blog post by Juliette on participation in 'Boundaries & boundary concepts in/as datafication' organised by Yana Boeva, Louis Ravn and Sarah Davies at the University of Amsterdam: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=896
Digital Theory roundtable with Fazi, Galloway, Handelman and Weatherby via The Disintegrator Podcast open.spotify.com/episode/5qfV...
NEW: Our investigation for @thenerve_news reveals not only that Peter Thiel’s Palantir is completely enmeshed in our critical national infrastructure.
It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯
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I also enjoyed the prior video because its quite unusual to see someone walking you through the thought process behind their code: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKmU...
I enjoyed this video by Mo Bitar...basically a talk about responsibility in coding: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKTs...
Everyone wants to blame the content: misinformation, bots, polarisation. That mistakes catalysts and symptoms for the underlying causes. The crisis isn’t bad information, it's that the very information infrastructure we relied on to create a shared understand of the world had changed completely.
Cheers dude! It's like a witch hunt seeking any sign of impurity. I've even started looking behind my back when I write RegEx patterns now. Personally I identify with the doctrine of original sin in tech. Show me the pocket for the hand of the finger that points...be there ios or android within?
Source Code Exhibition: "Source code [...] holds rich layers of meaning. It can reveal the intentions of its author, reflect the historical, social, and cultural context of its creation, and even express personal style, creativity, or aesthetic choices" www.sourcecode-exhibition.softwareheritage.org
3D printed model of Cork city
Recently we've been working with @maedhbhlikedave.bsky.social to get our 3D printed of Cork city to its new home in the library at UCC. Everyone is super pleased with the result. Big thanks to the team at Display Contracts for mounting the model. datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=871
Excited to share a new open-source project for the web-mapping and LiDAR community: maplibre-gl-lidar 🚀
With maplibre-gl-lidar, you can visualize large-scale LiDAR point clouds (LAS/LAZ, including COPC) directly in the browser using MapLibre GL JS.
New housing and planning resource for Ireland – a publications hub. >1,800 academic, policy and sector publications relating to housing, property and planning in Ireland. Access at www.zotero.org/groups/55867... if there are pubs missing you want us to add, please send them to us and we will do so
A talk by Barry O'Reilly @technologytulip.bsky.social on software architecture, complex systems, and stuffing meat into electric chargers: youtu.be/D8qQUHrksrE
"AI Agent, AI Spy" - Good talk by Udbhav Tiwari and Meredith Whittaker on the risks of agenetic AI and systems like Microsoft Recall: media.ccc.de/v/39c3-ai-ag...
Thanks for sharing this. I've had great fun emulating the general pattern and hammering out genuinely useful tools. I got a lot of inspiration from your notes on malleable software and resonant computing: virtualarchitectures.github.io/Browser-Tools/
'Against Storytelling' - A refreshing piece by Miriam Rasch via @publicseminar.bsky.social publicseminar.org/2025/12/agai...
Danielle and Sam introducing their talk 'Half the houses built don't exist' at Digital Geographies 2025.
"Half the houses built don't Exist" - Check out the Data Stories blog for a summary of Danielle and Sam's presentation at the Digital Geographies conference 'Artificial Geographies: opening the black box for a new wave of critical thinking' in Lisbon: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=853
Good talk on video game environments and spatial documentation for development from #GodotFest2025 - 'Gyms, Zoos, and Museums: Your documentation should be in-game' by Robin-Yann Storm: media.ccc.de/v/godotfest2...
Caesar Cipher
Vigenere Cipher
AES Encryption and Decryption
I recently started a postgraduate diploma in Cybersecurity and I've really enjoyed researching different historic and contemporary encryption techniques. Here's a couple of diagrams I prepared with Excalidraw for my notes. Still working out the best way to communicate the AES S-box and round keys.
Maynooth Sparks 2025
Spoof property website created for the workshop 'Daft.ie for Noobs'.
Data Stories were busy during Maynooth Research Week. Check out our involvement in Maynooth Sparks 2025, and our workshop session 'Daft.ie for Noobs: Gaming Ireland’s property market by spoofing property websites': datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=834
I possibly have lower expectations.
One thing I'm curious about is whether we could run these kinds of workflows with much more modestly sized local models, given the growing attention given to processes like skills which seem to focus on provisioning context, while diminishing reliance on parametric knowledge. I'd love to see that!
Very intriguing! A new paper discusses Skyfall-GS, a process for obtaining navigable 3D scenes from Satellite imagery via Gaussian Splats: skyfall-gs.jayinnn.dev
Presentation by Helen Shaw.
Active note taking with post-it notes during the workshop.
Real-time workshop illustration by Eimear McNally.
Read our latest blogpost on workshops engaging Collaborative Urban Planning with Data by @juliettedavret.bsky.social, Helen Shaw and Carla Maria Kayanan. Also features real-time illustration by Eimear McNally: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=826
