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Mapping Adversarial Maritime Activity in a Changing Arctic

The Wall Street Journal has created a visualization showing the expanding maritime presence of Russia and China near the North Pole. Climate change has led to melting ice, opening new sea routes and...

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10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist

This week’s list of top data news highlights covers February 8, 2025 to February 14, 2025, and includes articles on addressing body image disorders with VR and understanding facial expressions of pigs...

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10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist

This week’s list of top data news highlights covers February 15, 2025 to February 21, 2025, and includes articles on predicting human extinction with supercomputers and mapping the seafloor with AI. 1....

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Analyzing Job Automation and Augmentation

Researchers at Anthropic, a leading AI company, have created a dataset to study AI’s impact on the labor market. Using Clio, Anthropic’s automated analysis tool, they analyzed around one million user...

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Assessing Common PINs

ABC News analyzed 29 million leaked four-digit PINs from Have I Been Pwned? (a database of exposed credentials from data breaches) and visualized the data using a grid where each square represents a...

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10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist

This week’s list of top data news highlights covers February 22, 2025 to February 28, 2025, and includes articles on streamlining manufacturing with AI tools and scanning for evidence of life on Mars...

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Tracking Drought Conditions in Europe

Researchers at the European Commission’s Joint Research Center have created the European Drought Observatory (EDO) database to track droughts across Europe. The dataset includes  maps of precipitation,...

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Visualizing Makeshift Landfills in Gaza

Reuters analyzed data from the United Nations and Planet Lab, an Earth imaging company, to visualize waste accumulation and spread in Gaza after the ceasefire. Drawing on publicly available...

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Visualizing the Organ Transplant System

The New York Times has created a visualization illustrating how patients are frequently skipped in the organ transplant system, despite the official waiting list. Using data from the United Network for...

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Enhancing Cybersecurity in Autonomous Cars

Researchers from Beihang University and Hunan University have developed a new dataset to help strengthen cybersecurity for autonomous cars. Cyber threat intelligence (CTI) relies on large datasets, but...

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10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist

This week’s list of top data news highlights covers March 1, 2025 to March 7, 2025, and includes articles on preventing fires with AI detection tools and mapping genetic diversity in India.  1....

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Improving Coal Sorting in China

Researchers from the China University of Mining and Technology have developed the first large-scale, open-source dataset for intelligent coal sorting, capturing over 270,000 images of coal, waste rock,...

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Visualizing Measles Outbreak Prevention

The New York Times has created a visualization mapping the spread of measles across Texas and New Mexico, using data from state health departments and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

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10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist

This week’s list of top data news highlights covers March 8, 2025 to March 14, 2025, and includes articles on using new computer algorithms to reduce medical bias in MS treatment and helping prisons...

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Mapping the Spread of Data Centers in the U.S.

The New York Times has created a visualization mapping the locations of data centers across the United States, using 2022 data from the Electric Power Research Institute, a nonprofit energy research...

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Enabling AI Decision-Making in Autonomous Vehicles

Hugging Face has partnered with Berlin-based AI startup Yaak to publish the Learning to Drive (L2D) dataset, designed to advance autonomous navigation. The dataset includes multimodal data from camera...

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10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist

This week’s list of top data news highlights covers March 15, 2025 to March 21, 2025, and includes articles on noninvasive data-driven methods of analyzing neonatal health and introducing autonomous...

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Gaining Insight on Celestial Dark Energy

Berkeley Labs, in collaboration with over 900 international researchers from more than 70 institutions, has released a dataset from its Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), a telescope tool...

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Visualizing the Distribution of Lifespans

Flowing Data has created a visualization showing the distribution of death ages within a group of people who share the same age and sex, using death statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and...

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10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist

This week’s list of top data news highlights covers March 22, 2025 to March 28, 2025, and includes articles on searching for mineral deposits using AI and changing accents in real-time. 1. Improving...

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