Building a Dataset of Brain Cell Communication
The Allen Institute for Brain Science has released a dataset of electrical brain activity in mice to further research into how cells produce complex behaviors. The dataset contains information on...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers October 19-25, 2019, and includes articles about monitoring concussions in real-time and automatically tracking forest fires. 1. Enabling Paralyzed...
View ArticleVisualizing Air Pollution Along the Mississippi River
ProPublica has created a series of data visualizations showing the high levels of air pollution that exist on an industrial stretch of the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. The...
View ArticleIncreasing the Number of Tasks Virtual Assistants Can Perform
Google has released a dataset of the text of 18,000 dialogues between humans and virtual assistants that spans 17 domains, including attempts by humans to access banking, calendar, and weather...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers October 26-November 1, 2019, and includes articles about analyzing social media posts to identify individuals who may commit violence and the use of...
View ArticleVisualizing the Effects of Dying Coral Reefs
Bloomberg has created a series of data visualizations demonstrating the destructive effects of warming ocean temperatures on coral reefs. For example, the visualizations show that northern reefs in...
View ArticleBuilding a Dataset of Malicious Internet Activity
Australia’s national science agency, Macquarie University, University of Sydney, and Nokia Bell Labs have released a dataset of malicious Internet activity from 2007-2017 to help researchers predict...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers November 2-November 8, 2019, and includes articles about building robots that can follow orders and using open data to help renters in New York City. 1....
View ArticleVisualizing the Air Pollution Crisis in Northern India
Reuters has created a series of data visualizations illustrating the intensity of the pollution crisis in northern India. The visualizations illustrate that the scale and severity of air pollution in...
View ArticleBuilding a Dataset of Gun Violence in the United States
Journalists from The Trace, a nonprofit news organization, and BuzzFeed have released a dataset of violent crimes from 56 U.S. law enforcement entities. The dataset includes both original data from...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers November 9-November 15, 2019, and includes articles about AI helping clean up sewers and using satellite data to create a map of human settlements. 1....
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers November 16-November 22, 2019, and includes articles about using cellphone data to predict the spread of epidemics and building a robot that can sort...
View ArticleVisualizing the November Democratic Debate
Bloomberg has created a series of data visualizations illustrating the amount of time presidential candidates spent discussing topics in the most recent Democratic debate. The visualizations show that...
View ArticleHelping Autonomous Vehicles Predict the Actions of Other Road Users at...
Researchers from RWTH Aachen University in Germany have released a dataset of trajectories for nearly 12,000 road users at intersections in Germany to advance the development of autonomous vehicles....
View ArticleVisualizing How Adversity Affects SAT Scores
The Wall Street Journal has created a series of data visualizations illustrating the median SAT scores and median weighted SAT scores for U.S. high schools if colleges weighted the scores using the...
View ArticleUsing Satellite Imagery to Automatically Assess Building Damage
Carnegie Mellon University, the U.S. Department of Defense, and U.S. startup CrowdAI have released a dataset of 22,000 satellite images to advance the development of systems that can automatically...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers November 23-November 29, 2019, and includes articles about using AI to detect and respond to hate speech online and using machine learning to detect...
View ArticleVisualizing the Worst Air Pollution Days of 2019
The New York Times has created a series of data visualizations illustrating air pollution levels worldwide. The visualizations demonstrate the worst air quality days of the year for different cities....
View ArticleDeveloping Systems to Summarize Legislation
Researchers from FiscalNote Research, a technology firm based in Washington, DC, have released a dataset of U.S. Congressional and California state bills to advance the development of systems that can...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers November 30-December 6, 2019, and includes articles about using AI to reduce injuries in the NFL and using a quantum computer to route traffic. 1....
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