Cities are building “digital twins” to map roads, buildings and utilities — but most still overlook the people who use them.

A new study shows how faked synthetic data can add realistic human behavior to these models while protecting #privacy.

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From concrete to community: How synthetic data can make urban digital twins more humane

Urban digital twins pull together tremendous amounts of data to realistically model cities, but they’ve been missing a critical ingredient: people.

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