Quantifying Transportation Costs for International Trade
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the World Bank have developed a dataset that estimates the costs of transporting different commodities around the world. The dataset provides...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers January 9, 2021 – January 15, 2021 and includes articles about training an AI model with a trillion parameters and using AI to diagnose opioid use...
View ArticleVisualizing the Benefits of Electric Cars
The New York Times has created a series of visualizations about the environmental and economic benefits of electric cars using data released by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. One graph...
View ArticleTracking Attacks on Healthcare Workers in Countries in Conflict
The Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC), an international coalition of 40 health providers, humanitarian groups, human rights organizations, and NGOs, has created a dataset to track...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers January 16, 2021 – January 22, 2021 and includes articles about diagnosing prostate cancer from urine tests and predicting psychosis with machine...
View ArticleVisualizing Access to COVID-19 Testing Sites in the United States
The Wall Street Journal has created a series of visualizations comparing access to COVID-19 testing sites in the United States based on the urbanization and income level of counties. One graph shows...
View ArticleRecording the Individuals Charged for the U.S. Capitol Siege
The Program on Extremism at George Washington University, which analyzes issues related to violent and nonviolent extremism, has created a dataset to record the number of individuals charged by the...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers January 23, 2021 – January 29, 2021 and includes articles about assessing student engagement in virtual classrooms and identifying autism in children...
View ArticleVisualizing Shifts in the Price of GameStop, Blackberry, and AMC Shares
The Wall Street Journal has created a series of graphs showing how online traders coming together on social media have driven up the share prices of GameStop, Blackberry, and AMC Entertainment. One set...
View ArticleCreating a LiDAR Dataset for Self-Driving Technology
Volvo has created Cirrus, a dataset of LiDAR vehicle scanning patterns (laser technology that uses light to measure distances between cars), corresponding camera images, and annotations, to help...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers January 30, 2021 – February 5, 2021 and includes articles about using AI to identify dark matter and predicting how policy changes can impact COVID-19...
View ArticleVisualizing Differences Between COVID-19 Deaths in Eastern and Western Europe
Reuters has created a series of visualizations that show the differences between COVID-19-related deaths in Eastern and Western Europe. One visualization compares when European countries experienced...
View ArticleAn Open Dataset for Multilingual Speech Research
Facebook AI has released Multilingual LibriSpeech (MLS), a multilingual audio dataset to help improve speech research in AI-powered services, such as voice assistants. MLS expands upon English-only...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers February 6, 2021 – February 12, 2021 and includes articles about optimizing the design of renewable energy systems and influencing human decision-making...
View ArticleVisualizing Changes to the U.S. Economy in 2020
The Wall Street Journal created a series of graphs to illustrate the largest economic decline of the United States since the Second World War. One graph shows how spending on services such as...
View ArticleCurating Public Tweets for Academic Research
Twitter has released a dataset of historical public tweets available to academic researchers for use. Developers update the dataset on a weekly basis to include up to 10 million monthly tweets. Users...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers February 13, 2021 – February 19, 2021 and includes articles about monitoring breeding grounds for malaria and analyzing the effectiveness of COVID-19...
View ArticleVisualizing How Texas’ Power Generation Failed During a Major Winter Storm
The New York Times has created a series of visualizations that illustrate the impact recent frigid temperatures have had on Texas’ power sources. One timeline shows that when a major winter storm began...
View ArticleTracking How the COVID-19 Pandemic has Changed Mortality Rates
Researchers from the Hebrew University in Israel and the University of Tübingen in Germany have created a dataset to track mortality rates in 79 countries from 2015 onwards. Their aim is to provide...
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