Visualizing How Delhi’s Air Quality Becomes Hazardous in the Winter
Reuters has created several data visualizations illustrating how Delhi’s air quality declines in the winter as temperatures and wind speed decrease. Hazardous air particles such as dust, dirt, and...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers January 12 – 18, 2019, and includes articles about Finland’s goal of teaching one percent of its population the basics of AI and Nvidia using an Ikea...
View ArticleVisualizing the Pollution Level of the Ganges River
Reuters has created data visualizations demonstrating the severe level of pollution in the Ganges river, which flows through India and Bangladesh and provides drinking and bathing water. For example,...
View ArticleHelping AI Answer Real Google Search Queries
Google has released Natural Questions, a dataset of 300,000 questions and human annotated answers to advance natural language understanding in computers. The questions come from anonymized Google...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers January 19-25, 2019, and includes articles about how the company that makes Budweiser is using AI to keep its packaging line working and an AI system at...
View ArticleVisualizing the Lifespan of a News Story
Google and design firm Schema have used Google search data to create several data visualizations that demonstrate how different news stories hold the public’s attention. The visualizations show that...
View ArticleBuilding Better Robots
Researchers from the University of Alicante in Spain have released RobotriX, a dataset of 512 sequences of actions that robots performed in 16 virtual rooms, to help AI solve robotic vision problems...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers January 26-February 1, 2019, and includes articles about a new video game to test the sophistication of AI agents and Google’s AI model to predict...
View ArticleCreating Data Visualizations in the BBC’s Style
BBC has created an open source graphics package called bbplot in the programming language R to help individuals make news-style graphics. Users can download the package to make production-ready charts,...
View ArticleSpurring Facial Recognition Development with a Diverse Dataset
IBM has released Diversity in Faces, a dataset of one million images of human faces, to further the development of facial recognition systems. The images in the dataset are from Flickr, and IBM...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers February 2-8, 2019, and includes articles about a new search engine for DNA and an AI model that can detect if a human is angry in only one second. 1....
View ArticleUsing Satellite Data to Measure Human Population Dynamics
Researchers from Pennsylvania State University and the University of Southampton in the UK have released five years of satellite data to help researchers better measure human population dynamics. The...
View ArticleHow Brexit Is Creating New Political Factions
The Guardian has created a series of data visualizations showing how Brexit has created new parliamentary blocs in the UK’s House of Commons. By grouping members of parliament by how they vote, The...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers February 9-15, 2019, and includes articles about an AI system that can lipread and facial recognition catching an imposter at the JFK airport. 1....
View ArticleMapping Segregation in America At Home and Work
Vox has created several data visualizations showing that the neighborhoods Americans live in are more segregated than the communities in which they work. For example, an interactive map shows that...
View ArticleSpurring AI Development With a High-Quality Face Dataset
NVIDIA has released Flickr-Faces-HQ (FFHQ), a dataset of 70,000 high-resolution images of human faces. The dataset includes faces representing a wide range of ages and ethnicities, and the images also...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers February 16-22, 2019, and includes articles about autonomous vehicles understanding traffic cops hand signals’ and an AI assistant that takes...
View ArticleOpen Sourcing Data Visualization Software for Autonomous Vehicles
Autonomous vehicle company GM Cruise has published the data visualization library Worldview to make it easier for individuals to develop interactive 2D and 3D graphics. GM Cruise built the library,...
View ArticleTeaching Machines How People Talk
Mozilla has published the latest dataset from its Common Voice project, which aims to spur the development of voice-enabled technologies. The dataset consists of nearly 1,400 hours of recordings from...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers February 23-March 1, 2019, and includes articles about an AI chatbot fact checking conversations on messaging apps and an AI system that predicts the...
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