Using AI to Detect Internet Trolls
Quora, a question-and-answer website, has launched the Insincere Questions Classification competition to spur the development of AI that can determine if a user asked a question in good faith. Quora...
View ArticleVisualizing Canada’s Energy Use
Canada’s National Energy Board has created an interactive data visualization tool that lets users explore energy production and consumption trends and forecasts for Canada. Users can visualize the data...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers November 10 – 16, 2018, and includes articles about an AI system that can play Pong better than humans and a new method for making high-resolution...
View ArticleTracking Property Transactions in Philadelphia
The City of Philadelphia has released a dataset of 3.7 million records detailing all property transactions that occurred in the city over the past twenty years. The dataset includes information such as...
View ArticleVisualizing Air Pollution Cutting Lives Short
The Washington Post has created several data visualizations depicting how many years of life citizens around the world lose to air pollution. For example, the visualizations show the average person on...
View ArticlePredicting Accidents in Traffic Camera Footage
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and University of Tokyo have published the Car Accident and Prediction Dataset (CADP), which contains over 1,400 traffic camera accident videos, to improve...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers November 24–30, 2018, and includes articles about astronauts getting an AI assistant and a startup using autonomous drones to replant forests after...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers December 1-7, 2018, and includes articles about robotic janitors at Walmart and an AI system that can identify high-performing engineers. 1. Predicting...
View ArticleMaking MRIs Faster with AI
Facebook and New York University have published fastMRI, a dataset of 1.5 million magnetic resonance images (MRI) of the knee, to accelerate the development of AI that can reduce the time it takes to...
View ArticleVisualizing the Drug Overdose Epidemic in the United States
The Guardian has created several data visualizations illustrating the extent of the drug overdose epidemic in the United States. One chart shows that not only was 2017 the deadliest year on record for...
View ArticleMapping Population Sizes as 3D Mountains
The Pudding has created a series of data visualizations illustrating how the concentration of human populations correlates with different urban challenges. The visualizations use 3D blocks to represent...
View ArticleTranslating Classical Japanese Literature
A combination of researchers from the Japanese government, academia, research institutes, and Google have published three datasets of Japanese script to preserve Japanese cultural knowledge. The...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers December 8-15, 2018, and includes articles about IMB offering access to a quantum computer to anyone and AI helping coordinate disaster relief, including...
View ArticleVisualizing The Link Between Violence and Changing Land Use
Reuters has created several data visualizations linking persistent violence in Nigeria to the competition between farmers and nomadic herders for land. Maps show that the amount of farmland tripled...
View ArticleTracking County-Level Incarceration Rates in the United States
The Vera Institute of Justice, a nonprofit research organization, has released a dataset of nearly 148,000 records detailing county level incarceration rates in the United States. The dataset, which...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers December 16, 2018 – January 4, 2019, and includes articles about AI reducing the amount of time it takes to manufacture chemicals and AI teaching robots...
View ArticleUnderstanding China’s Rise as a Trade Power
The Wall Street Journal has created several visualizations illustrating China’s rise to become the predominant source of the United States’ manufactured imports. The visualizations show China’s growth...
View ArticleHelping the Visually Impaired Shop for Groceries
Researchers from Microsoft and the Swedish KTH Royal Institute of Technology have published Grocery Store Dataset, a dataset of 5,125 images of grocery store items, to improve systems that aid people...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers January 5 – 11, 2019, and includes articles about an AI system that can identify genetic diseases by analyzing faces and a new AI app that can detect...
View ArticleBuilding a More Precise Image Dataset
Chinese technology company Tencent has released Tencent ML-Images, a dataset containing 18 million images across 11,000 categories. The dataset combines images from previously released datasets,...
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