10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers November 7, 2020 – November 13, 2020 and includes articles about protecting the Vatican Library’s online collection and launching the world’s first...
View ArticleVisualizing Coronavirus Restrictions and Mask Mandates in the United States
The New York Times has released a series of visualizations tracking coronavirus restrictions on a state level. Currently, New Mexico is the only state where officials are ordering most non-essential...
View ArticleRecording the Number of Children Held Under Detention in U.S. Customs and...
The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization, has recorded the number of children held under detention in U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facilities from January 2017 to January 2020....
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers November 14, 2020 – November 20, 2020 and includes articles about predicting traffic with a supercomputer and reconstructing the origins of the Milky Way...
View ArticleVisualizing Coronavirus Deaths Linked to U.S. Nursing Homes
The New York Times has released a series of visualizations that show the number of coronavirus deaths linked to residents and employees in U.S. nursing homes and other long-term care facilities. One...
View ArticleAdvancing 3-Dimensional Object Detection
Google has released a dataset of 15,000 videos and 4 million images of everyday objects to advance researchers’ understanding of 3D object detection. The images of objects fall into one of nine...
View ArticleVisualizing Changes in Rent Costs Across U.S. Metropolitan Cities
Bloomberg CityLab, a partnership between Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Aspen Institute and The Atlantic, has created a series of graphs that show how rent costs in 30 U.S. metropolitan areas have...
View ArticleDocumenting Global Travel Restrictions and Airline Policies
The United Nations World Food Program has documented the country-level travel restrictions and airline policies that are in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The dataset includes information such as...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers November 28, 2020 – December 4, 2020 and includes articles about predicting protein shapes with AI and improving public transit operations with machine...
View ArticleVisualizing Changes to the Benchmark for Stock Performance
The Wall Street Journal has created a series of visualizations that show how the Dow Jones Industrial Average, a benchmark that measures the stock performances of 30 large public companies in the...
View ArticleDocumenting Wealth and Income Inequality by Country
The World Inequality Lab, a global inequality research lab based at the Paris School of Economics, has released a dataset documenting the distribution of wealth and income across 173 countries and 19...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers December 5, 2020 – December 11, 2020 and includes articles about designing COVID-19 testing strategies with data analytics and better understanding how...
View ArticleTracking the Progress of COVID-19 Vaccines
Bloomberg has created a series of visualizations tracking the progress of the world’s nine most promising COVID-19 vaccines. One visualization tracks each vaccine’s stage of development, showing which...
View ArticleDocumenting Coups D’état That Occurred After World War II
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has created a dataset documenting coups d’état that occurred from 1945 to 2019. Coups d’état constitute an important subset of irregular transfers of...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers December 12, 2020 – December 18, 2020 and includes articles about using AI to control military jets and calculating how well COVID-19 quarantine measures...
View ArticleVisualizing How COVID-19 Changed Consumer Spending Habits in the United States
The Wall Street Journal has created a series of graphs showing how the COVID-19 pandemic has altered consumer spending patterns in the United States. One graph shows that spending on events and...
View ArticleTracking Global Food Prices
The United Nations World Food Program has released a dataset tracking the prices of foods, such as wheat, rice, beans, and fish in 76 countries and approximately 1,500 different markets. The data goes...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers January 2, 2021 – January 8, 2021 and includes articles about developing new therapeutics to tackle the Ebola virus and answering questions about...
View ArticleDescribing Malicious Bot Traffic through Music
Kasada, a software company in New York that creates products to detect and defend against automated bot attacks, has created an online tool called Botronica that uses sonification technology to...
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