Curious Denmark

Curiosio
5 min readDec 24, 2023

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by Vas Mylko, Roman Bilusiak

Aarhus Bay, Isbjerget in the background by MartinFruergaard, CC BY-SA 4.0

We have deployed our AI engine Ingeenee throughout Denmark. The result is Curious Denmark. We created Curious Denmark now as a gratitude for Danish weapons, humanitarian aid, financial and political support for Ukraine to help fight Rashism. Vikings/Danes were partners of Kyivan Rus’ more than 1000 years ago. Modern Danes are partners of Kyiv again.

You can jump to https://curiosio.com/country/?iso=dk right away to try it out. We recommend you to read down to learn how we built and tested it, find interesting and useful information about trip planning in Denmark.

The Huge Danish Realm

The Kingdom of Denmark is huge. Together with Greenland, the Danish Realm is the 12th biggest territory in the world. The entire kingdom is ~2.2 million square kilometers (~0.85 million square miles), and is the twelfth largest country in the world, according to The World Factbook. The same rank is held by Greenland alone because it constitutes 98% of the realm.

Denmark alone has an area of ~43,000 square kilometers and is number 133 on the same list. For now, we have installed our travel AI engine Ingeenee in that small Denmark attached to Europe and made it a curious one for all of you.

Danish Signature Trips

Curiosio is using its own Knowledge Graph, created from neutral data. There are 8,000+ Points and ~32,000 Places in the Knowledge Graph for Denmark. If you love Hygge then we’re telling you there are 6,000+ small towns and cozy villages for your travel imagination.

Hygge, Copenhagen by Vas Mylko ©

To test the quality and density of the Danish KG we found cool travel stories on the Web and tried to recreate their itineraries, to make interactive trip plans based on them. We created a few Signature Trips that we want to take ourselves as travel geeks. You can change these trip plans to your requirements by hitting the red magic [Supertrip] button.

Geeky Trip

If you are a software programmer you must love Denmark. C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup was born in Aarhus and attended Aarhus University. Turbo Pascal, Delphi, and C# architect Anders Hejlsberg was born in Copenhagen and studied at the Technical University there. The V8 JavaScript engine was created by Lars Bak who also studied at Aarhus University. PHP and Ruby on Rails are also from Denmark.

Web usability and HCI researcher Jakob Nielsen was born in Copenhagen and studied at the Technical University of Denmark. The architect of the famous Sydney Opera House is Jørn Utzon, born in Copenhagen, and studied there. Lars von Trier and Metallica’s Lars Ulrich are from Copenhagen. And there is also LEGO from Billund.

We gathered the cities and POIs related to those geeks, flavored them with even more related Danish pearls, and got a trip plan. You could change the plan to your liking by editing the number of travelers, duration, budget, points, and places. Hit the red [Supertrip] button to start editing your search request for Curiosio.

Family Special Trip

Old family photos sparked questions. The answers brought the American family to Denmark. A family road-trips through Jutland to find their home, their family, and the proper pronunciation of their name. Why did this travel story trigger our attention?

Once, I was researching my ancestry and decided to do it deep and wide with DNA sequencing chips. I found that my grand-grand-…-grand mother was a Dane. — Vas Mylko

One chip was designed to go far back, down to Y-chromosomal Adam and Mitochondrial Eve. Another chip was designed to find relatives and ethnic groups. The Y-chromosome is inherited from father to son, so the test can discover relatives with the same patrilineage. Mitochondrial DNA is inherited from mother to child, so the test can discover relatives with the same matrilineage.

Vikings traveled a lot by water and land. Maybe your ancestors also related to Vikings? Use Curiosio to explore your roots.

Copenhagen Countryside Trip

“Copenhagen made a name for itself as a real capital of cool — from concept design shops to inventive restaurants — there’s no shortage of noteworthy happenings in the Scandinavian city. This has drawn visitors by the thousands to the capital, the rest of Denmark has gone relatively unexplored.” — VOGUE.

Four charming Danish countryside escapes from Copenhagen united into one road trip. We took the points from the Vogue recommendations and put them into the algorithm. Curiosio made a trip plan with/from them.

Danish Island Trip

After Curious Greece we are good with islands. Denmark has many islands. Some of them are attractive for vacations. The majority of visitors to the country are not overcrowded there.

What’s Next

The next upgrade will be for the travel AI engine itself. More trip tuning and fine-tuning will be unlocked. After that, we will continue installing it in new countries worldwide. Operating behind the scenes, Ingeenee remains invisible, diligently working to fulfill its astronomically complex tasks. If it were to become visible, it would resemble the enigmatic vantablack monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Its size may vary, always sticking to the ratio of 1:4:9.

Men at Sea, Mennesket ved Havet by Anna & Michal, CC BY 2.0

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