10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers February 20, 2021 – February 26, 2021 and includes articles about assessing environmental conditions and aiding mental health diagnoses with machine...
View ArticleVisualizing How Global Trade is Rebounding from the COVID-19 Induced Recession
The Wall Street Journal has created a series of graphs that show how global trade flows rebounded more quickly in 2020 in the aftermath of the pandemic than in the aftermath of the global financial...
View ArticleTracking Events Where Educators are Threatened and Schools are Destroyed
Insecurity Insight, a nonprofit organization in Switzerland that records threats facing people living and working in dangerous environments, has created a series of datasets documenting incidents where...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers February 27, 2021 – March 5, 2021 and includes articles about revealing disparities in traffic stops and modeling the effectiveness of double-masking....
View ArticleVisualizing the Effects of Rising Food Prices
Bloomberg has created a series of visualizations that show how changing food prices are affecting countries around the world. One visualization shows that food inflation is affecting countries...
View ArticleRecording Police Misconduct Settlements Across U.S. Cities
Data journalism website FiveThirtyEight has created datasets to record U.S. cities that have paid out police misconduct settlements. The datasets cover 31 U.S. cities that awarded settlements between...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers March 6, 2021 – March 12, 2021 and includes articles about combining soil data to improve crop growing techniques and using AI to help create cleaning...
View ArticleVisualizing the Population of Unaccompanied Minors in Custody
The Washington Post has created a series of visualizations that depict the population of unaccompanied minors who crossed the United States-Mexico border and are in the custody of the U.S. Department...
View ArticleRecording the Number of COVID-19 Variants in the United States
USA Today has created a dataset that records the number of COVID-19 variants in the United States using data from the U.S. Centers for Disease and Control. The data shows that Florida, Michigan, and...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers March 13, 2021 – March 19, 2021 and includes articles about building a new supercomputer in less than a year and saving coral reefs. 1. Using Data to...
View ArticleAn Open Dataset to Foster Research in Treatments for Alzheimer’s Disease
The European Prevention of Alzheimer’s Dementia (EPAD), an EU-funded consortium to advance the testing and development of preventative treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, has published data to help...
View ArticleVisualizing Congressional Votes on the Coronavirus Relief Package
The Washington Post has created a series of visualizations that show how sharply polarized Congressional votes on the coronavirus relief package were. Even though most Americans support the bill, one...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers March 20, 2021 – March 26, 2021 and includes articles about detecting freshwater pollution from sensors on mussels and using AI to identify viable...
View ArticleVisualizing the Impact of Gun Violence in the United States
The Washington Post has created a series of graphs showing how gun deaths and gun injuries have grown to record numbers in the United States. One graph shows that there were 19,380 gun-related deaths...
View ArticleRecording Global School Closures Due to COVID-19
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has released a dataset recording the number of school closures due to COVID-19 in 210 countries. The dataset includes the...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers March 27, 2021 – April 2, 2021 and includes articles about fighting illegal deforestation in the Amazon and speeding up the drug review process with AI....
View ArticleVisualizing Anti-Asian Violence in the United States
The New York Times has created a series of visualizations that show the rise of anti-Asian violence in the United States over the past year. One visualization shows that reports of harassment against...
View ArticleDocumenting Demographic Data about Coronavirus Cases in the United States
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has collated demographic data on coronavirus cases reported by states and autonomous reporting entities, such as local health departments. The...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers April 3, 2021 – April 9, 2021 and includes articles about using open data to help countries address extreme climate events and predicting stock market...
View ArticleVisualizing Restrictions to the Internet in Myanmar Following a Military Coup
Reuters has created a series of visualizations that depict the extent of restrictions to Internet access that the Myanmar military has imposed as part of a seizure of power that began in February. One...
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