Tracking the Height of Glaciers
NASA has released a dataset that includes more than a trillion precise measurements of the Earth’s height at various locations, including the height of glaciers and the height of the canopy of forests....
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers June 1-7, 2019, and includes articles about an AI system detecting bladder cancer and a system that uses facial analysis to detect rare diseases. 1. The...
View ArticleBuilding a Dataset of Islamicate Texts
Researchers from Knowledge, Information, and The Arabic Book (KITAB), a project to create digital tools to analyze Arabic writing, have released a dataset of more than 4,000 Arabic texts to help...
View ArticleVisualizing the UK’s Changing Electricity Supply
Climate news publication Carbon Brief has created a series of data visualizations showing how the UK reduced the amount of carbon dioxide its electrical system added to the atmosphere by nearly 60...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers June 8-14, 2019, and includes articles about an AI system that can predict if a person will develop psychosis and an AI system that can make humans in...
View ArticleVisualizing Housing Options in U.S. Cities
The New York Times has created a series of data visualizations illustrating how the zoning policies of many U.S. cities make it difficult for low-income families to afford housing. Many cities zone...
View ArticleTracking Floods in the United States
The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has released a dataset of more than 50 million policy transactions and 2.4 million damage claims from the National Flood Insurance Program between...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers June 15-21, 2019, and includes articles about an AI system that can predict a person’s gestures and AI system that can detect deepfakes. 1. Releasing an...
View ArticleVisualizing the Commercialization of Space
The Wall Street Journal has published a series of data visualizations demonstrating the commercialization of outer space. The visualizations show that 2,000 satellites orbit the Earth and that firms...
View ArticleTeaching AI to Understand Traffic Signs
Swedish startup Mapillary has released a dataset of 100,000 images of traffic signs to foster the development of AI systems that can understand them. The dataset includes signs from North and South...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers June 22-28, 2019, and includes articles about an AI system that can predict if stars are likely to have orbiting planets and a tool that can instantly...
View ArticleUnderstanding Timing in Videos
Google has published the YouTube-8M Segments dataset, a collection of 237,000 five-second video segments annotated with time-localized labels to help train AI systems to predict video content. Google...
View ArticleVisualizing the Pollution of the Mississippi River
The Wall Street Journal has published a series of data visualizations showing that heavy rainfalls are flushing an increasing amount of nitrates from farms into the Mississippi River, thus...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers June 29-July 5, 2019, and includes articles about an AI system that created a flu vaccine and an AI system that can predict drug approvals. 1. Teaching...
View ArticleVisualizing Machine Learning Models
Microsoft has developed a data visualization tool called TensorWatch to help researchers visualize and debug machine learning models. The increasing complexity and size of machine learning models and...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers July 6-July 12, 2019, and includes articles about an AI system landing a plane and an AI system that can detect weapons in real-time. 1. Autonomously...
View ArticleTeaching Autonomous Vehicles to Understand the World Around Them
Argo AI, an autonomous vehicle company, has released two high-definition maps and a dataset that contains information about the trajectories of 300,000 vehicles driving through Pittsburgh and Miami to...
View ArticleTracking the Evolution of UN Security Council Debates
Researchers from multiple European universities have released a dataset of 65,000 speeches from UN Security Council meetings taking place between 1995-2017. The researchers extracted the dataset from...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers July 13-July 19, 2019, and includes articles about AI systems predicting conflicts and detecting child abuse. 1. Teaching a Language with AI and VR IBM...
View ArticleVisualizing the Number of Pain Killers Sold in Each U.S. County
The Washington Post has created a series of data visualizations showing the number of oxycodone and hydrocodone pills sold in each United States county between 2006 and 2012. The data, which the Post...
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