Visualizing COVID-19 Deaths As If They All Happened in Your Neighborhood
The Washington Post collaborated with Google News Initiative and Agência Lupa in Brazil to create a simulation to help users better understand what the total number of COVID-19 deaths in the United...
View ArticleRecording International COVID-19 Government Responses
The CoronaNet Research Project has released a dataset of 15,000 policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic from over 190 countries since January 1, 2020. The dataset includes information describing what...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers September 26, 2020 – October 2, 2020 and includes articles about using robots as waiters in Japanese restaurants and using augmented reality to conduct...
View ArticleMapping the Impacts of Fires on the West Coast
The New York Times has mapped the major fires burning in California, Oregon, and Washington. The maps illustrate the locations of the major fires in each of the three states, including which parts are...
View ArticleMeasuring the Social Connectedness of Different Regions
Facebook has released a dataset that measures how socially connected different regions are by measuring the probability that a pair of Facebook users in different geographic locations are friends with...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers October 3, 2020 – October 9, 2020 and includes articles about predicting heart failure using machine learning and building the UK’s fastest...
View ArticleTracking the Total Debt of the U.S. Government
The U.S. Department of the Treasury has released a dataset that tracks the federal government’s total outstanding public debt. Total public debt is a sum of the debt that the federal government owes to...
View ArticleVisualizing Job Loss Disparities in the United States During the COVID-19...
The Washington Post has visualized the unequal impacts that the COVID-19 recession has had on job loss and job recovery across demographic groups in the United States. The visualization shows that...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers October 10, 2020 – October 16, 2020 and includes articles about ending world hunger with the assistance of machine learning and measuring how effective...
View ArticleVisualizing Jobs Growth by Industry in the United States
Bloomberg has created a series of interactive visualizations that show the number of jobs in different industries from 2006 to present-day. One visualization compares industries with the highest and...
View ArticleRecording Daily Activities in the Home to Assist AI Development
Panasonic, a Japanese electronics company, and Stanford University’s Vision and Learning Lab have published an image and measurement dataset of videos depicting daily activities that occur inside the...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers October 17, 2020 – October 23, 2020 and includes articles about the first multilingual machine translation system and designing cities using machine...
View ArticleRecording Jail Deaths in the United States
Reuters has created a dataset of the number of deaths that occured in every U.S. jail with more than 750 inmates in custody between 2008 to 2019. Currently, the U.S. Department of Justice collects data...
View ArticleTracking Early Voting in the 2020 U.S. Election
The New York Times has created a series of visualizations that show how early voting and absentee ballots cast in this year’s presidential election compare to the 2016 election. So far, 66.4 million...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers October 24, 2020 – October 30, 2020 and includes articles about using deep learning to find the best treatments for tumors and spotting signs of a stroke...
View ArticleVisualizing Hospitalizations During Europe’s Second Wave of Coronavirus...
The New York Times has created a series of visualizations that show how Europe’s second wave of coronavirus infections has impacted hospitalizations. One map shows how many COVID-19 cases have been...
View ArticleTracking the Rate of Pregnancies, Births, and Abortions in the United States
The Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that works to study and advance sexual and reproductive health rights, has released a dataset tracking the rates of pregnancies, births, and abortions...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers October 21, 2020 – November 6, 2020 and includes articles about forecasting flu outbreaks with location data and decreasing offensive language in video...
View ArticleVisualizing How Voting has Changed Between the 2016 and 2020 U.S....
Reuters has created a series of visualizations that show how county-level votes (where at least 95 percent of expected votes have been counted) have changed between the 2016 U.S. presidential election...
View ArticleRecording Confirmed COVID-19 Cases in U.S. Immigration and Customs...
The Vera Institute of Justice, a nonprofit research and policy organization, is recording the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases for people detained in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)...
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