Creating a COVID-19 Testing Dashboard
Tarrant County, Texas, has launched the COVID-19 Testing and Data Response Platform, which visualizes the county’s testing performance in near real-time. The platform, which a coalition that includes...
View ArticleSpotting Hateful Memes
Facebook has released a dataset of 10,000 hateful memes to spur the development of systems that can identify hateful content that combines both images and text. The dataset includes a variety of...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers May 9-15, 2020, and includes articles about evaluating the validity of COVID-19 research and using AI to detect hate speech. 1. Detecting COVID-19 In the...
View ArticleMapping COVID-19 Cases In New York City
The New York Times has created a series of data visualizations illustrating how COVID-19 has affected different populations in New York City. The visualizations, which show the number of cases and...
View ArticleMining Parliamentary Speeches for Insights
Researchers from the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, a research institute, and the University of Cologne have published a dataset containing the text of more than 6 million parliamentary speeches...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers May 16-22, 2020, and includes articles about predicting the seasonality of COVID-19 and using autonomous drones to deliver defibrillators in emergency...
View ArticleVisualizing Germany’s Intensive Care Capacity
ZDFheute, a German news organization, has created a series of data visualizations illustrating Germany’s capacity to provide intensive care for COVID-19 patients. The visualizations show that Germany...
View ArticleMeasuring Bias in Natural Language Models
Researchers from MIT, Facebook, Intel, and McGill University in Canada have released Stereoset, a dataset of 17,000 sentences that researchers can use to measure a natural language processing model’s...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers May 23-May 29, 2020, and includes articles about delivering medical supplies via drone and using a supercomputer to simulate the impact of the asteroid...
View ArticleVisualizing How Coronavirus Is Affecting British Nursing Homes
Reuters has created a series of data visualizations showing that British nursing homes have had 26,000 excess deaths—fatalities that exceed the typical number of deaths for a given period—since...
View ArticleAutomatically Creating Short Summaries of Scientific Research Papers
Researchers from the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence and the University of Washington have released a dataset of more than 3,000 computer science papers and summaries to advance the...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers May 30-June 5, 2020, and includes articles about using AI to protect renters and increasing data portability between social media platforms. 1. Returning...
View ArticleMapping Police Killings in the United States
Mapping Police Violence, a project to track violence by police, has created several data visualizations about police killings in the United States. The visualizations show that black people are three...
View ArticleTracking Fatal Police Shootings
The Washington Post has published an updated version of a dataset containing information on fatal police shootings in the United States. The dataset, which chronicles shootings that occurred between...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers June 6-12, 2020, and includes articles about using the International Space Station to track animal movements and using ground penetrating radar to map a...
View ArticleVisualizing the Relationship Between Police Policies and the Use of Deadly...
A data scientist from H20.ai, a firm that creates open-source platforms for AI, has created several data visualizations highlighting the relationships between police policies and the use of deadly...
View ArticleVisualizing How Far People Are Traveling in the United States
Descartes Labs, an analytics company based in New Mexico, has released a regularly updated dataset on changes in mobility in the United States. The dataset uses anonymized mobile device location data...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers June 13-19, 2020, and includes articles about teaching an AI system to stitch wounds and creating an open data platform for autonomous vehicles. 1....
View ArticleVisualizing the Plight of Russian Orphans
Russian investigative news site I-Stories has created several data visualizations highlighting the plight of Russian orphans. Russia banned U.S. citizens from adopting Russians in 2013, and a chart...
View ArticleIdentifying Aircraft in Satellite Imagery
In-Q-Tel, a U.S. government-funded venture capital firm, and AI.Reverie, a startup based in New York that creates synthetic data to train machine learning algorithms, have released a dataset of...
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