Helping Autonomous Vehicles Drive in Adverse Weather
Scale AI, a startup based in San Francisco, the University of Waterloo, and the University of Toronto have released a dataset containing 56,000 images and 7,000 point clouds from LiDAR to advance the...
View ArticleVisualizing Climate Change Data in Real-Time
Bloomberg has created a climate data dashboard that features a series of data visualizations that update in real-time. The dashboard includes visualizations that show that arctic sea ice is melting...
View ArticleBuilding a Dataset of Translated Sentences
Facebook has released CCMatrix, a dataset that contains 4.5 billion parallel sentences—sentences in one language and their corresponding translations in other languages. The dataset comprises parallel...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers February 8-14, 2020, and includes articles about an AI model that helps robots pick up clear objects and a system that is helping diagnosis the...
View ArticleDiscovering Patterns in High-Dimensional Data
Facebook has released HiPlot, a data visualization tool that can help researchers discover correlations and patterns in high-dimensional data. Machine learning models can have dozens of...
View ArticleTracking Vaccination Rates in the United States
The Wall Street Journal has released a dataset that contains the vaccination rates for more than 40,000 schools across 32 U.S. states. The newspaper collected the data, which includes immunization...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers February 15-21, 2020, and includes articles about using a supercomputer to model spacecraft crashes and an AI system that helps transcribe and translate...
View ArticleVisualizing the Spread of Locust Swarms
BBC has created a series of data visualizations that demonstrate the severity of locust swarms that are consuming crops and threatening food supplies in nations such as Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenya....
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers February 22-28, 2020, and includes articles about detecting endangered whales and an AI system that helps autistic children develop social skills. 1....
View ArticleHelping AI Systems Understand Different Languages
Google has released a dataset of more than 200,000 question-answer pairs from 11 languages to advance the development of AI systems that can understand the different ways languages express meaning. For...
View ArticleVisualizing the Spread of the Coronavirus
The Wall Street Journal has created a series of data visualizations demonstrating how the coronavirus spread. The visualizations show that the airport in Wuhan, China, where the virus originated, had...
View ArticleTracking the FDA’s Drug Approvals
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released a dataset containing information on all new drugs it has approved since 1985. The dataset contains information on over 1,000 new molecular...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers February 29-March 6, 2020, and includes articles about tracking the spread of the coronavirus and improving the accuracy of mammograms. 1. Providing...
View ArticleVisualizing How the United States Has Changed Since 2010
The Wall Street Journal has created several data visualizations illustrating how the United States has changed since the last census, which occurred in 2010. The visualizations show that the middle of...
View ArticleHelping AI Systems Understand Relationships in Images
Google has released a new version of its Open Images dataset, which contains nine million annotated images. This new version includes synchronized audio, text, and mouse traces for the objects a...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers March 7-13, 2020, and includes articles about reducing the workloads of teachers and using a supercomputer to combat the coronavirus. 1. Creating an...
View ArticleVisualizing How to “Flatten the Curve”
The Washington Post has created a series of data visualizations that simulate how different measures, such as forced quarantining or social distancing, can affect the spread of a virus. The...
View ArticleBuilding a Dataset of Coronavirus Research
A group of researchers led by the Allen Institute for AI have released the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19), which contains more than 29,000 scholarly articles about COVID-19 and the...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers March 14-20, 2020, and includes articles about combating the coronavirus and using AI to create a smart shoe. 1. Mimicking the Brain to Smell Researchers...
View ArticleCreating a Dataset for Using Autonomous Vehicles in Multiple Environments
Ford has released the Ford Autonomous Vehicle Dataset, which contains raw data from autonomous vehicles humans manually drove for 41 miles in and around Detroit. The dataset includes information from...
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