Improving Visual Reasoning in AI Systems
Researchers from Stanford University have released a dataset of 113,000 images and 22 million related questions to advance computer vision technology. The images are of everyday scenes, such as a table...
View ArticleVisualizing the Carbon Footprint of Consumer Products
A researcher from Columbia University has created Carbon Catalogue, a tool that visualizes the carbon footprint of nearly 900 products from 28 countries. The tool displays the carbon footprint of a...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers March 2-March 8, 2019, and includes articles about an AI chatbot matching patients to clinical trials and using supercomputers to find the best materials...
View ArticleTraining AI to Navigate Without a Map
DeepMind has released StreetLearn, an interactive environment and dataset consisting of 114,000 panoramic images from Google Street View, to advance the development of AI systems that can navigate...
View ArticleMaking Data Visualizations In Under a Minute
The Financial Times has released a free data visualization tool called FastCharts to help people make professional charts with their data in less than a minute. Users can paste in their data in CSV or...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers March 9-March 15, 2019, and includes articles about AI detecting whether a bot wrote a passage of text and using AI to predict the cognitive development...
View ArticleVisualizing Shifting Territorial Control in Syria
Reuters has created several data visualizations illustrating how the sizes of territories controlled in Syria by government-led forces, rebel groups, Kurdish-led forces, and ISIS have changed since...
View ArticleDeep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again
In his new book, Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again, Eric Topol, a cardiologist and founder of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, a medical research...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers March 16-March 22, 2019, and includes articles about AI detecting cancer and spotting patterns in crime. 1. Creating an AI System That Picks Up After You...
View ArticleVisualizing Income Inequality in Boston
MIT Media Lab, an interdisciplinary research laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has developed an interactive data visualization called the “Atlas of Inequality” that maps income...
View ArticleMapping the Footprints of Buildings in Canada
Microsoft has released a dataset of more than 12 million building footprints—outlines of the area a structure occupies—for buildings across all Canadian provinces and territories. Microsoft used AI to...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers March 23-March 29, 2019, and includes articles about AI detecting exoplanets and drones delivering medical supplies. 1. Discovering Planets Using AI...
View ArticleMaking Interactive Visualizations With One Line of Code
Plotly, a data analytics company, has released a free data visualization library called Plotly Express that allows users to create interactive visualizations with as little as one line of code in...
View ArticleMaking AI Better at Math
DeepMind has released Mathematics, a large-scale dataset of mathematical questions with a roughly high school level of difficulty, to advanced the development of AI systems with algebraic reasoning...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers March 30-April 5, 2019, and includes articles about AI helping doctor’s treat brain tumors and an AI system that analyzes the technique of violinists. 1....
View ArticleVisualizing an Unchanging Pay Gap Between Men and Women in the UK
BBC has created a series of data visualizations showing that 78 percent of companies in the UK pay men more than women and that the average pay gap is 9.6 percent, almost identical to the 9.7 percent...
View ArticleTracking Government Spending by the City of Philadelphia
The City of Philadelphia has released a dataset of more than 238,000 records detailing more than $4 billion in payments the city made during the 2017 fiscal year. The dataset includes information on...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers April 6-12, 2019, and includes articles about AI helping choose locations for electric vehicle charging stations and an AI robot learning how to use...
View ArticleTracking Cardiovascular Health Via an iPhone
Stanford University has released a dataset of health data for 50,000 individuals participating in the MyHeart Counts Cardiovascular Health Study, a global cardiovascular research study that collected...
View ArticleVisualizing Patterns in Sequential Data
Researchers from Harvard University and Novartis have developed a data visualization tool called Peax that helps researchers find patterns in sequential data, including genomic data. The size and...
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