Visualizing The Data Behind Distracted Driving in the United States
Bloomberg has created a series of data visualizations demonstrating the widespread use of phones by individuals driving vehicles. The visualizations show that half of all individuals use their phones...
View ArticleImproving the World’s Best Computer Vision Models
Researchers from MIT and IBM have released ObjectNet, a dataset of 50,000 images of objects that are intentionally placed in cluttered rooms or in unusual positions. For example, the dataset, which...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers December 7-December 13, 2019, and includes articles about using the Internet-of-Things (IoT) to improve city parks and using AI to spot corruption. 1....
View ArticleVisualizing the Scramble to Climb Mount Everest
Reuters has created several data visualizations illustrating the number of individuals attempting to climb mountain peaks in the Himalayas. The visualizations show that a record number of 344 people...
View ArticleTesting the Accuracy of Biometric Systems
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released three biometric datasets to help organizations test the accuracy of biometric identification systems. One of the datasets includes...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers December 13-December 23, 2019, and includes articles about Russia launching a quantum computing initiative and California allowing firms to test...
View ArticleVisualizing the Number of Wildfires in Australia
The Guardian has created a series of data visualizations illustrating the number of fires in Australia since October 2019, which have destroyed wildlife, burned thousands of homes, and killed more than...
View ArticleCreating AI Systems That Can Help Diagnose Gastrointestinal Conditions
Researchers from multiple European organizations, hospitals, and universities have released a dataset of gastrointestinal tract images and videos to advance the development of systems that can assist...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers January 4-10, 2020, and includes articles about the White House releasing principles to regulate AI and a system that helps pilots decide if visibility...
View ArticleBuilding A Dataset of Open Data Search Terms
Germany’s Open Data Portal has released a dataset of more than 750,000 queries users have made through the data portal. The dataset contains data on all searches users made between April 2016 and...
View ArticleVisualizing The Risk of Tailings Dams
Reuters has created a series of data visualizations illustrating the number of tailings dams—which are embankments that store mining waste in liquid or solid form—by country. This is the type of dam...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers January 11-16, 2020, and includes articles about creating more accurate weather forecasts and researchers using AI to create “living machines” from frog...
View ArticleVisualizing the Shifting Causes of the Opioid Epidemic
The Washington Post has created a series of data visualizations using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that show the evolution of the opioid epidemic in the United States. The...
View ArticleCreating Systems That Can Diagnose Heart Conditions Using Videos
Researchers from Stanford University have released a dataset of 10,000 labeled echocardiogram videos to advance the development of machine learning systems that can analyze videos in clinical settings....
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers January 18-24, 2020, and includes articles about mapping the brain and creating an AI system that can help humans make decisions. 1. Mapping the Brain...
View ArticleTracking Police Shootings in the United States
The Washington Post has created a series of data visualizations illustrating the number of police shootings in the United States. The visualizations show that the rate of fatal shootings—nearly 1,000 a...
View ArticleUnderstanding Academic Development in Children
A researcher from Vanderbilt University has released two datasets that contain more than 3,000 magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of brains to advance the understanding of how academic skills...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers January 25-31, 2020, and includes articles about treating OCD and an AI system that predicted the outbreak of the coronavirus. 1. Improving Robotic Arms...
View ArticleMapping the Coronavirus
Bloomberg has created several data visualizations mapping the outbreak of the coronavirus. The visualizations show that there have been more than 20,000 confirmed cases and over 400 deaths. The...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers February 1-7, 2020, and includes articles about finding biological links in schizophrenia and an AI system that can automatically deliver sports updates...
View Article