10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers December 14, 2024 to December 20, 2024, and includes articles on the digital twin of the Yangtze River in China and an AI model that can distinguish...
View ArticleVisualizing Disproportionate Drug Overdose Deaths in Black Men
The New York Times has created an interactive visualization showing how Black men born in the United States between 1951 and 1970, who came of age at a time of wide racial economic disparities, are...
View ArticleExamining Italian Government Procurement
Researchers at the University of Turin in Italy have created a dataset that contains information on Italy’s government procurement contracts—roughly 12 percent of the country’s GDP—between 2016 and...
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This week’s list of top data news highlights covers December 21, 2024 to January 3, 2025, and includes articles on an augmented reality training program for fighter jet pilots and using AI to enhance...
View ArticlePolicy Highlights, Weeks of December 23, 2024 and December 30, 2024
Senators Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Minimize National Security Risks from Frontier AI U.S. Senators Angus King (I-ME), Mitt Romney (R-UT), Jack Reed (D-RI), Jerry Moran (R-KS), and Maggie Hassan...
View ArticleStudying the Mosquito Population in Mainland China
Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Shanghai Institute of Technology have created a dataset with information on the varieties and population densities of mosquitoes across different...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers January 4, 2025 to January 10, 2025, and includes articles on using AI to streamline litigation preparation and the U.S. Navy’s new data dashboard to...
View ArticleVisualizing Home Insurance Nonrenewal Rates in the United States
The New York Times has created a map visualizing the rates at which home insurance companies have refused to renew policies in each U.S. county, using the most recent data from the U.S. Senate Budget...
View ArticleVisualizing Proportional Representation in the United States
The New York Times has created a visualization exploring how the U.S. Congress might look under a proportional representation system instead of the current winner-take-all system. Using a nationally...
View ArticleStudying American Sundown Towns
Researchers at the University of Minnesota, the University of Michigan, and Duke University have compiled a dataset that aggregates historical records on sundown towns in the United States, which are...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers January 11, 2025 to January 17, 2025, and includes articles on using AI to create proteins that neutralize lethal snake venom and a tool that...
View ArticlePolicy Highlights, Week of January 13, 2025
The White House Issues New Export Controls for AI The Biden administration has created a new framework for controlling exports of advanced chips and AI model weights. The rule implements a three-tiered...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers January 18, 2025 to January 24, 2025, and includes articles on a digital tool to optimize soil sampling for farmers and an AI chatbot that can help...
View ArticleVisualizing Wildfire and Smoke Risk in Los Angeles
The New York Times has created a series of maps visualizing wildfire and smoke risk for the different parts of Los Angeles County, where several devastating wildfires have been ravaging since early...
View ArticleEnhancing Robotic Movements
Researchers at the Shibaura Institute of Technology in Japan have created a new dataset to help enhance how well algorithms that predict the poses of different robots perform. Developers use these...
View ArticlePolicy Highlights, Week of January 20, 2025
President Donald Trump Repeals and Replaces Biden Administration’s Executive Order on AI President Donald Trump has signed an executive order titled “Removing Barriers to American Leadership in AI,”...
View ArticleStudying Forest Regrowth Patterns
Researchers at Nanjing University and Fujian Normal University in China have created a dataset that analyzes rates of regrowth in major deforestation regions over the last four decades. Instead of just...
View ArticleVisualizing Firefighting Air Tanker Flight Patterns in Los Angeles
Reuters has created a series of maps showing firefighting air tanker flight patterns in Los Angeles to visualize suppression missions for the ongoing fires. The news agency used fleet and flight...
View ArticleWhy The Pursuit of Sovereign AI is Not the Right Call for the UK
Earlier this month, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced his full support for the 50 recommendations outlined in the AI Opportunities Action Plan, a proposal aimed at boosting the UK’s AI economy...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers January 25, 2025 to January 31, 2025, and includes articles on a dashboard tracking violent deaths in Illinois and a digital learning platform...
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