10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers June 20-26, 2020, and includes articles about using AI to document war crimes and linking a volcanic eruption to the collapse of the Roman empire. 1....
View ArticleVisualizing How COVID-19 Is Affecting Prisons in the United States
The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization, and The Associated Press have created several data visualizations illustrating how COVID-19 has affected prisons in the United States. One...
View ArticleTracking How Coronavirus is Affecting the United States
Opportunity Insights, an institute of social scientists and policy analysts based at Harvard University, has released a dataset of employment rates, consumer spending, and job postings to help...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers June 27-July 3, 2020, and includes articles about using AI to promote original reporting and reducing coronavirus infections on buses. 1. Building a...
View ArticleVisualizing the Impact of a Tourist Train Route to Mayan Ruins
The Wall Street Journal has created a series of data visualizations highlighting the potential impact of a 950-mile train route to Mayan archaeological sites in Mexico. The visualizations show that the...
View ArticleTeaching AI Systems to Analyze First-Person Videos
Researchers from the University of Bristol and the University of Catania in Italy have released a dataset of 100 hours of video recordings of individuals performing activities in the kitchen. The...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers July 4-July 10, 2020, and includes articles about analyzing data to determine COVID-19 risk factors and a robot lab assistant that can perform some...
View ArticleVisualizing COVID-19’s Impact on Developing Nations
The Wall Street Journal has created a series of data visualizations highlighting how coronavirus has impacted developing nations. The visualizations show that COVID-19 cases grew rapidly in South Asia...
View ArticleAnalyzing Paycheck Protection Program Loan Data
The U.S. Small Business Administration has released a dataset of information about the nearly 5 million loans lenders provided under the Paycheck Protection Program, which provided funds to support...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers July 11-July 17, 2020, and includes articles about using court records to find disparities in the judicial system and an AI-enabled system that can...
View ArticleVisualizing COVID-19’s Impact on Travel Worldwide
The Washington Post has created several data visualizations highlighting how COVID-19 has disrupted travel worldwide. One visualization shows international flight travel plummeting between January and...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers July 18-July 24, 2020, and includes articles about using machine learning to predict volcanic eruptions and teaching robots common sense. 1. Predicting...
View ArticleBuilding a Dataset of Coronavirus Transmission Events
Researchers led by an individual from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine have released a dataset about the settings that have led to significant clusters of COVID-19 cases. The...
View ArticleVisualizing Racial Disparities in the United States
Reuters has created a series of data visualizations highlighting racial disparities in the United States. One visualization shows that black women are three times more likely than white women to die of...
View ArticleAnalyzing Complaints Against New York City Police Officers
ProPublica has released a dataset of more than 12,000 complaints filed against New York City police officers. The complaints are from 1985 through 2020, and the dataset includes information on the...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers July 25-July 31, 2020, and includes articles about forecasting the movements of locust swarms and mapping 80 percent of the universe. 1. Creating a...
View ArticleVisualizing Which Organizations Received Paycheck Protection Loans
The Washington Post has created several data visualizations illustrating which organizations received U.S. taxpayer-backed Paycheck Protection Program loans. The visualizations show that 86 percent of...
View ArticleAutomating the Design of Objects
Researchers from Princeton University and Columbia University have released a dataset of 15 million 2D computer-aided designs to advance systems that can assist in designing real-world objects. The...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers August 1-August 7, 2020, and includes articles about predicting coffee demand during the pandemic and modeling the solar system’s shape. 1. Teaching AI...
View ArticleVisualizing the Impacts of U.S. COVID-19 Policies on the Number of Cases
The New York Times has created several data visualizations comparing the United States’ COVID-19 policies to those of other nations that have comparable wealth and population size. One visualization...
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