Submission + - Create your own Monopoly to understand the world around you (newscientist.com)
jtogel writes: "Can we use games to help people explore the massive amounts of data that are increasingly available to everyone? In a recent paper, which New Scientist write about here we describe a program that can generate Monopoly Boards from open data streams. The player selects what is important to him or her (child poverty? education? median income?) and the program uses AI methods to create a new game board. The full paper is available here."