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Mapping Airspace Disruptions from India-Pakistan Conflict

Reuters has produced a series of visualizations tracking the disruption to air travel caused by the India-Pakistan conflict. One of these charts, shown here, compares how flight durations changed for...

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10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist

This week’s list of top data news highlights covers May 10, 2025 to May 16, 2025 and includes articles on using AI to scout youth soccer players and robots that identify packages through touch. 1....

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Visualizing Sinking Cities

Researchers from Columbia University, the University of California Irvine, and Virginia Tech have created a series of maps using satellite-based observations to show land subsidence—the gradual sinking...

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Mapping River Branches

Researchers at the University of Oxford have released a dataset mapping rivers, including branching systems in floodplains, canals, and deltas—areas often overlooked due to their location in densely...

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10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist

This week’s list of top data news highlights covers May 17, 2025 to May 23, 2025 and includes articles on using AI to simulate urban planning designs and robots that can navigate spaces humans cannot...

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Visualizing Effects of Wartime Destruction on Ukranian Energy Grids

Bloomberg News used NASA’s Black Marble satellite data, which captures daily nighttime light emissions at a 500-meter resolution, to create a series of visualizations tracking changes in urban lighting...

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Observing Antarctic Surface Air Temperatures

Researchers from Sun Yat-sen University, the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and North Carolina State University have created a dataset tracking monthly surface air temperatures across...

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10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist

This week’s list of top data news highlights covers May 24, 2025 to May 30, 2025 and includes articles on using AI to track food waste and streamlining hospital operations with help of robots. 1....

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Analyzing Reforestation Initiatives in the Philippines

A joint investigation by Filipino news outlet Davao Today, Singapore-based data agency Thibi, and Dutch newsroom Lighthouse Reports has published a visual showing how the Philippines’ National Greening...

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Diversifying Speech Audio Data

Researchers at the University of Essex have released a new speech dataset to study how people try to sound trustworthy. It includes approximately 1,000 audio clips from around 100 speakers, each...

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10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist

This week’s list of top data news highlights covers May 31st, 2025 to June 6th, 2025 and includes articles on using AI to navigate foggy waters and refining access to cricket statistics during matches....

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Mapping Warming Ocean Temperatures

The New York Times has created a visualization showing how marine heat waves have intensified since 2000. Using NOAA satellite data, the graphic highlights the monthly share of the global ocean surface...

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Tracking Land Movement

NASA and the Alaska Satellite Facility have released a new dataset that shows how the ground across North America has shifted over time—rising, sinking, or cracking due to earthquakes, volcanoes,...

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10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist

This week’s list of top data news highlights covers June 7th 2025 to June 14th, 2025 and includes articles on tracking professional golf games with AI and exploring the mining history of the lost town...

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Mapping Drought in Mexico

The data journalism outlet Serendipia has created a heatmap tracking the progression of drought across Mexican states from 2003 to 2025. Using government data from the Mexico Drought Monitor, the...

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Identifying Ocean Oil Spills

Researchers at Nanjing University have created a global dataset of satellite images to improve how image recognition models detect oil pollution on the ocean’s surface. The dataset includes over...

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10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist

This week’s list of top data news highlights covers June 15, 2025 to June 22, 2025 and includes articles on detecting melanoma using AI and playing badminton with a robot.  1. Restoring Australia’s...

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Tracking Temporary Migration in Senegal

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have created a dataset of mobile phone records from Senegal, covering 2013 to 2015, to track short-term internal migration across the country. The dataset...

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Visualizing Turbulence in Relation to Climate Change

The Washington Post has created an interactive map visualizing how climate change may worsen turbulence on U.S. flight routes. Drawing on data from FlightRadar24 and the Federal Aviation Administration...

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10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist

This week’s list of top data news highlights covers June 23, 2025 to June 29, 2025 and includes articles on using a guide to personalize shopping and deploying smart waste removal systems in Kenya. 1....

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