Testing How Well AI Deals with Adversarial Examples
Researchers at UC Berkeley have published the Natural Adversarial Examples dataset, consisting of 7,500 images of natural phenomenon designed to fool image classification algorithms. Adversarial...
View ArticleVisualizing Political Polarization in U.S. Cities
FiveThirtyEight has created data visualizations illustrating where Democrats and Republicans live in the 153 largest metro areas in the United States, highlighting distinct political polarization based...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers July 20-26, 2019, and includes articles about autocomplete software for code and smart home systems with intelligent hearing. 1. Giving Cheap Robots...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers July 27-August 2, 2019, and includes articles about an AI system that can detect a deadly crop disease and a system that can spot deepfake images. 1....
View ArticleVisualizing 16,000 Aftershocks from Earthquakes
The New York Times has created a series of data visualizations illustrating how two large earthquakes in early July in Southern California triggered 16,000 aftershocks. The visualizations show that the...
View ArticleBuilding Algorithms That Can Find Illicit Bitcoin Transactions
Elliptic, a blockchain analytics firm, MIT, and IBM have released a dataset of 200,000 bitcoin transactions to foster the development of machine learning algorithms that can detect illicit...
View ArticleVisualizing Best-and-Worst-Case Climate Change Scenarios
BBC has created several data visualizations illustrating how much warmer the Earth will be by 2100. Charts show that even under best-case scenarios, in which climate policies severely limit emissions,...
View ArticleUnderstanding How Patients Will Respond to Anticancer Drugs
The Genomics of Drug Sensitivity in Cancer, a project that aims to find biomarkers that can identify patients most likely to respond to anticancer drugs, has released a dataset of cancer drugs, genomic...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers August 3-9, 2019, and includes articles about an AI system that can detect the signs a volcano will erupt and researchers who have mapped the brain of...
View ArticleVisualizing the UK’s Reliance on EU Food Imports
The Guardian has created several data visualizations illustrating the United Kingdom’s reliance on European Union food imports to emphasize the threat Brexit poses to the UK’s food supply. The...
View ArticleAdvancing the Development of Autonomous Vehicles
Lyft has released a high definition map and 55,000 3D frames of footage to support advancements in autonomous driving. The mapping data includes features such as lanes, parking signs, and crosswalks,...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers August 10-16, 2019, and includes articles about an AI system that predicts food product recalls and an AI system that tracks drug abuse in real-time. 1....
View ArticleVisualizing Billions of Data Points
Australian Signals Directorate, an Australian intelligence agency, has made the data visualization and analysis tool it uses, called Constellation, available as open source. The tool allows users to...
View ArticleImproving Autonomous Vehicles
Self-driving car company Waymo has released a dataset of high-resolution sensor data its vehicles collected while driving in Arizona, California, and Washington. The data contains 1,000 20-second clips...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers August 17-23, 2019, and includes articles about an algorithm that is helping refugees find the best places to live and AI system spots sharks in...
View ArticleImproving the Ability of AI Systems to Recognize Human Emotion
Researchers from Yonsei University in South Korea and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne have released a dataset of 13,000 videos to improve the ability of AI to recognize human...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers August 24-30, 2019, and includes articles about AI translating Lego instructions for blind individuals and an AI-enabled robot that can fly a plane. 1....
View ArticleVisualizing Deforestation in Brazil
Bloomberg has created a series of data visualizations illustrating the extent of deforestation in Brazil. The visualizations show that the rate of deforestation in the Amazon increased by 73 percent...
View ArticleUnderstanding Hurricane Maps
The New York Times has published a series of data visualizations to increase the public’s ability to interpret hurricane maps. News outlets and the government often publish cone-shaped graphics that...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers August 31-September 6, 2019, and includes articles about an AI system that can predict heart attacks and a facial recognition system that can identify...
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