Visualizing the Greenness of Cities
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Senseable City Lab, a research initiative studying the impact of technology on urban life, has created a data visualization called Treepedia...
View ArticlePublishing 3D Data for AI Image Recognition
Matterport, a company that builds 3D models of physical spaces for use in real estate, construction, and other industries, has publishes the Matterport 3D dataset, a collection of 10,800 3D models....
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers October 14-20, 2017, and includes articles about an AI system that can prevent unnecessary surgery for breast cancer and a chatbot that uses AI to help...
View ArticleVisualizing Gender Diversity at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed an interactive data visualization illustrating trends in undergraduate gender diversity at the university on a...
View ArticleCataloging Human Nerve Cells
The Allen Institute for Brain Science, a nonprofit research organization, has launched the publicly accessible Allen Cell Types Database to serve as a resource for researchers studying the building...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers October 21-27, 2017, and includes articles about a new partnership to accelerate the discovery of cancer drugs and a smartphone-powered ultrasound...
View ArticleTeaching Computers to Understand Human Actions
Google has published a dataset of short film clips containing “atomic visual actions (AVA),” which are distinct human actions such as walking or drinking. The AVA dataset consists of links to 57,600...
View ArticleVisualizing the Rise and Fall of ISIS
The New York Times has created a data visualization illustrating how the size of territory controlled by ISIS has grown and shrunk since 2014. In 2014, ISIS controlled several important cities in Iraq...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers October 28 – November 3, 2017, and includes articles about a new open data bill in the United States and fabric that can store data. 1. Developing a New...
View ArticleVisualizing the Swedes in the Paradise Papers
Swedish news outlet SVT Nyheter has created a data visualization illustrating the involvement of 1,180 Swedes it identified in the Paradise Papers, the 13.4 million recently leaked documents detailing...
View ArticleCataloging the World’s Microbiome
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, the University of Chicago, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s La Jolla...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers November 4-10, 2017, and includes articles about an AI system that can read research papers to aid materials fabrication and a program to make quantum...
View ArticleVisualizing the Retail Apocalypse
Bloomberg has created a series of data visualizations illustrating the “retail apocalypse” in the United States—the mass closing of retail stores that began in 2016. The visualizations highlight the...
View ArticleAccelerating Autism Research
The Ontario Brain Institute has made high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data useful for autism research freely available on its neuroinformatics platform Brain-CODE. The data includes 31...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers November 11-17, 2017, and includes articles about an AI fashion assistant for retail stores and the first approved smart drug in the United States. 1....
View ArticleVisualizing Europe’s Air Quality
The European Environment Agency has created a data visualization called the European Air Quality Index that maps air quality levels for European countries in real time. The visualization uses data from...
View ArticleBuilding a Public Database for Voices
Mozilla has published data from its Common Voice project to develop a public repository of voice recordings to spur the development of speech-recognition machine learning systems. The Common Voice data...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers November 11-17, 2017, and includes articles about an AI fashion assistant for retail stores and the first approved smart drug in the United States. 1. AI...
View ArticleVisualizing Technological Shifts in Your Lifetime
The Washington Post has created a data visualization allowing users to observe major technological transformations that took place during their lifetime. Users can enter their birth year and the...
View ArticleTeaching Machines to Understand What’s Going On In Videos
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s IBM Watson AI Lab have published a collection of one million labeled video clips called the Moments in Time Dataset to help train AI systems...
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