Category Archives: data analysis

Bucharest 1930s 📽 old footage restored using machine learning

This is a follow-up on my recent post on automatic restoration of old video footage using machine learning. 📽 Source videos Fining source videos for Bucharest project proved to be more challenging than for Budapest, but eventually I settled on a footage from the 1930s, often considered the golden age of the city – aContinue reading “Bucharest 1930s 📽 old footage restored using machine learning”

Budapest 1896 📽 Automatic restoration of old video footage using machine learning

Recently, several videos have been popping up on the internet that showed really old video footage restored to modern standards. From a contextual perspective, it is a very fascinating process – i.e. using the knowledge of the past 100 years to create a better image of the even more distant past – but it isContinue reading “Budapest 1896 📽 Automatic restoration of old video footage using machine learning”

Modelling 🦠 Coronavirus – Quarantine?!

As coronavirus is threatening to become a global pandemic, I’ve built seven epidemiological models of increasing complexity in order to illustrate how infectious diseases get transmitted over time. Among others, I try to answer the questions of what is the scientific rationale behind a surgical mask or an all-out quarantine. This is a video commentaryContinue reading “Modelling 🦠 Coronavirus – Quarantine?!”

Metrocyclopaedia 🚇 Interactive map of all metro systems of the world

I have been playing around quite a bit with CesiumJS recently. It is likely the best tool out there to visualize global datasets on an interactive 3D Earth in the browser. As you might know from the title of his blog, 😁 I am fascinated by complex systems. A particular kind of complex systems areContinue reading “Metrocyclopaedia 🚇 Interactive map of all metro systems of the world”