Tracking the Development of COVID-19 Treatments and Vaccines
FasterCures, a research center focused on accelerating medical research at the Milken Institute, a non-profit think tank, has released a dataset that tracks the development of treatments and vaccines...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers August 8 – August 14, 2020, and includes articles about translating languages with a smart mask and employing supercomputers to simulate high-frequency...
View ArticleVisualizing the Power of the Beirut Explosion
Reuters has created a visualization comparing the power of the Beirut explosion to other accidental explosions and conventional weapons. It shows the Beirut explosion was equal to 200-300 tons of high...
View ArticleDocumenting COVID-19 Hospital Utilization in the U.S.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has released a dataset that documents the COVID-19 hospital utilization of each state. The dataset includes state-by-state information on the number of...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers August 15 – August 21, 2020, and includes articles about classifying galaxies using deep learning and using AI to quicken MRI scans 1. Investigating the...
View ArticleVisualizing the Mauritius Oil Spill
Reuters has created a series of visualizations illustrating the extent of the oil spill caused by a grounded Japanese-owned ship that strayed from shipping lanes. One visualization uses satellite data...
View ArticleTracking Climate Change in the U.S.
The Washington Post has released multiple datasets that use temperature data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to track climate change in the United States. One dataset includes...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers August 22 – August 28, 2020, and includes articles about discovering new planets with machine learning and experiencing the Tour de France through...
View ArticleVisualizing the Allocation of International Relief Aid for COVID-19
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) has released visualizations that track the allocation of international relief aid for COVID-19 from its two primary...
View ArticleMaking Scholarly Articles More Accessible for Machine Learning
ArXiv, an open-access digital repository of scholarly articles maintained by Cornell University in New York, made available all of its 1.7 million research articles on Kaggle, a public online platform...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers August 29 – September 4, 2020, and includes articles about developing a tool to detect deepfakes and conversing with Holocaust survivors through...
View ArticleVisualizing the Spread of Viral Particles in New York City Subways
The New York Times has created a series of visualizations that illustrate the spread of viral particles in New York City subways. One visualization shows how the ventilation system circulates and...
View ArticleIdentifying Nature Trails in the United States
The U.S National Park Service has released a dataset of over 28,000 nature trails in the United States. The dataset includes information about the trail name, the trail terrain, the trail’s level of...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers September 5, 2020 – September 11, 2020 and includes articles about using AI to improve the mental health of veterans and using drones and machine...
View ArticleVisualizing COVID-19 Cases on College Campuses
The New York Times has created visualizations that track the number of COVID-19 cases at U.S. colleges and universities. One map shows which college campuses have had confirmed COVID-19 cases since the...
View ArticleRecording Genome Sequences of Coronavirus Strains
The National Center for Biotechnology Information, part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, has created a dataset of coronavirus genome sequences. The dataset contains DNA sequences of 13,000...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers September 12, 2020 – September 18, 2020 and includes articles about using machine learning to eliminate packaging waste and using genomics to reconstruct...
View ArticleVisualizing Coronavirus Cases In Europe
Reuters has created a series of graphics tracking the number of COVID-19 infections and deaths in Europe. One graph shows the proportion of global infections and deaths Europe accounts for since the...
View ArticleIdentifying Symptom Search Trends to Inform COVID-19 Research
Google has released an anonymized dataset of U.S. users’ searches on 400 medical symptoms or health conditions, such as a cough or fever, to better inform research on COVID-19. The dataset is...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers September 19, 2020 – September 25, 2020 and includes articles about detecting signs of arthritis early with machine learning and using AI to win an...
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