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Awesome crowd at #TEDxUdvarhely this weekend! I talked about why the language of data is visualization 🌟 #dataviz #tedx Photo credit 📷 Szász Zsuzsi facebook.com/TEDxUdvarhely/…

Visual Story-Writing. While you write, our word processor visualizes the timeline, world map, and character relationships. Editing these visuals updates the story (e.g. drag a character on the map to move them). This summarizes our #UIST2025 paper. #HCI #LLMs #AI Thread 🧵 (1/8)

👀Might be the biggest CS breakthrough of the decade!🚀 @Tsinghua_Uni researchers found a faster way to compute lots of shortest paths on huge, sparse graphs - which in turn means (y)our AI tools will be cheaper to run.

Congratulations to new #CesiumCertified Developer @csaladenes! The Cesium Certified Developer Program recognizes the technical expertise of developers who build on the Cesium platform. It's free + open to all. Learn more: hubs.ly/Q039gGPy0

Happy to share that my (now slightly out of date 😅) Metrocyclopaedia project earned me the @CesiumJS #CesiumCertified developer badge 🚀🌍 Check out the rest of this happy bunch at cesium.com/certified-deve… #GIS #Geospatial #dataviz blog.csaladen.es/metro/

I think 2024 was the year that everyone who lives in the West woke up to fact that we are not the good guys....

One of my most challenging and exciting projects this year: over 400 charts and maps unpacking Romanian election data. From turnout to trends and hyper-local insights, it’s designed to be a tool for discovery! 👉alegeri.hotnews.ro #elections #maps #dataviz #choropleth

Do yourself a favour and download @ForensicArchi 827 pages of evidence and analysis of Israel's genocide in Gaza. Amazing work. A Cartography of Genocide forensic-architecture.org/investigation/…

“Their hostages are not their objective. Decimating Hamas is not their objective.” Israeli forces killed Hamas’ leader Yahya Sinwar. International law expert @4noura says that Israel’s actual goal hasn’t changed – annihilating the Palestinian people in Gaza.

@NathanLands I felt something similar when moving to the UK from the UAE.

Everywhere you go, you run into little things that don't work. Half the escalators I saw were not working, soap was missing in the bathrooms, etc. Once you notice it, you see it everywhere in America. Things just don't work. Everything works in Japan, and it would be unacceptable if things didn't work.

I'M SHOCKED. After living in Japan for over two years, I recently visited the USA with my wife. It made me realize that the USA is dysfunctional in so many ways and has such a low-quality standard across the board. Here are the things I noticed:

Delighted to see my work over the past 2 years published online! It is based on a DP (currently under revision at a journal), research.reading.ac.uk/economics/wp-c…. It proposes a new indicator that visualises progress the world & all countries are making towards greener economic growth. 1/9

@mpfix1 Here's a cheesy one:

X is throttling these kinds of posts, so I'm putting this in a reply: The large generative models have many safety pins built into them, so it actually does take quite a bit of prompt engineering to get them generate anything other than nice and blissful panoramas of cities.

Reality is worse than fiction: I've asked multiple #GenerativeAI models in the vilest way possible to imagine scenes of cities as if they would have gone through the same devastation as #Gaza did. AI's IMAGINED destruction is not even close to the ACTUAL obliteration of Gaza.

@jacksonhinklle People think this is for #Abbas to ask #Putin for support. In reality, he has been sent there by the #Israeli occupation to beg him to not align with #Iran. If #Russia *actually* moved in militarily to support #Palestine, our kids would be tweeting in Russian in 20 years.

❤️🇷🇺🇵🇸 Palestinian President Abbas arrived in RUSSIA to meet with PRESIDENT PUTIN!

@mhdksafa x.com/csaladenes/sta…

Israel has dropped almost 80,000 tons of explosives - this means that Israel has dropped ~36 kilograms of explosives on Gaza for every man, woman, and child. Each red dot shows a bombed place in Gaza. (UN Satellite Centre, July 6th) This is what genocide looks like.

@mhdksafa I've made a timelapse map of the sheer scale of destruction using the the only available satellite imagery x.com/csaladenes/sta…

@AJEnglish To where? Khan Yunis (including Al-Mawasi) is completely obliterated! Look at this August 2024 - March 2023 satellite image side by side

Israel steps up assault on Gaza’s Khan Younis, tells Palestinians to flee aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/…

Complete obliteration of #Gaza | February 2023 - August 2024 timelapse. 3 geo-crops: Gaza City - Northern #Gaza, Deir el Balah - Central Gaza, Khan Yunis and Rafah - Southern Gaza Data does not lie. #Sentinel-2 #Copernicus

Gaza: In the largest and most shameful concentration camp of the 21st century, Israel is genociding the Palestinians one neighborhood at the time, one hospital at the time, one school at the time, one refugee camp at the time, one 'safe zone' at the time. With US and European weapons. And amid the indifference of all "civilised nations". May the Palestinians forgive us for our collective inability to protect them, honoring the most basic meaning of intl law.