Visualizing Coronavirus Testing in the United States
The New York Times has created a series of data visualizations illustrating how the United States is performing on coronavirus testing. The visualizations show that the United States has surpassed...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers March 21-27, 2020, and includes articles about using supercomputers to combat the coronavirus and developing autonomous drones that can avoid flying...
View ArticleVisualizing Plummeting Oil Prices
Reuters has created a series of data visualizations highlighting the plummeting price of oil due to a price war between Russia and Saudia Arabia and lower demand due to coronavirus. The visualizations...
View ArticleTracking COVID-19 Cases at the County Level
The New York Times has released a dataset of cumulative counts of COVID-19 cases in the United States at the county level. The organization compiled the dataset using reports from state and local...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers March 28-April 3, 2020, and includes articles about using AI to detect misinformation about the 2020 Census and using genetic data to predict outcomes...
View ArticleVisualizing How Government Responses to Coronavirus Have Evolved
The Financial Times has created a series of constantly updating data visualizations that track the spread of coronavirus and government responses. The visualizations show that the daily death tolls in...
View ArticleTracking iPhone Search Warrant Requests in the United States
Motherboard has published a dataset of information about more than 500 search warrants for iPhones U.S. law enforcement requested in 2019. The dataset includes the application date, the agency, the...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers April 4-10, 2020, and includes articles about tracking whales using satellites and simulating how coronvirus could spread in grocery stores. 1. Improving...
View ArticleVisualizing Social Distancing in the United States
Reuters has created a series of data visualizations using location data from millions of smartphones to show how social distancing efforts have affected travel in the United States. The visualizations...
View ArticleAdvancing Autonomous Navigation Systems
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Tongji University in China, and Microsoft have released TartanAir, a dataset of information collected from virtual...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers April 11-17, 2020, and includes articles about remotely monitoring COVID-19 patients and using AI to evaluate NFL prospects. 1. Remotely Monitoring a...
View ArticleVisualizing Why Social Distancing Matters
The New York Times has used data from the Kyoto Institute of Technology in Japan to create a 3D data visualization that shows how respiratory droplets from infectious diseases can spread indoors. The...
View ArticleDigitizing 18th Century Editions of the Encyclopedia Britannica
The National Library of Scotland has released a dataset that digitizes the first eight editions of the Encyclopedia Britannica, which publishers issued between 1768 and 1860. The dataset contains over...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers April 18-24, 2020, and includes articles about automating the detection of plastic in oceans to predicting when allergies will flare-up. 1. Crowdsourcing...
View ArticleVisualizing the Financial Stress of Firms in the United States
Reuters has created several data visualizations illustrating the mounting debt and financial stress of U.S. companies. One visualization shows that corporate debt as a percentage of gross domestic...
View ArticleReprogramming the American Dream
In his new book, Reprogramming the American Dream, Microsoft’s chief technology officer, Kevin Scott, argues that AI can positively revolutionize the economy for all workers. Scott, a native of a rural...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers April 25-May 1, 2020, and includes articles about using AI to improve tax policy and using delivery robots for contactless delivery. 1. Improving Tax...
View ArticleVisualizing Bicycle and Scooter Travel Patterns
Uber has created a data visualization tool called the New Mobility Heatmap, which maps bicycle and scooter travel patterns to specific streets. The tool visualizes the data for eight cities, including...
View ArticleCatalyzing Research in Autonomous Vehicles
Audi has released an autonomous vehicle dataset that contains roughly 400,000 images and 3D point clouds from a vehicle driving on highways, country roads, and cities in Germany. More than 40,000 of...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers May 2-8, 2020, and includes articles about a new technique to train image classification algorithms and a wearable that detects COVID-19 symptoms. 1....
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