Visualizing Olympians Getting Faster
The Wall Street Journal has created a series of data visualizations illustrating how Olympic athletes get consistently faster, on average, from each Winter Olympics to the next. The visualizations...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers February 3 – 9, 2018, and includes articles about using the Apple Watch to detect diabetes and an AI system that can make sense of privacy policies. 1....
View ArticleStudying How Adolescent Brains Develop
The U.S. National Institutes of Health has published 30 terabytes of data gathered for its Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study, which is the largest long-term study of adolescent brain...
View ArticleRedrawing the United States’ Electoral Map
FiveThirtyEight has created a data visualization depicting different methods of drawing congressional maps for the United States and highlighting how different approaches could dramatically change the...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers February 17-23, 2018, and includes articles about using AI to predict heart disease from retinal scans and digitizing ancient graffiti in Pompeii and...
View ArticleHow the UAE Plans to Be A Major Player in AI
As national governments increasingly recognize the importance of AI to their economy, conversations about how these governments should support its development have almost exclusively focused on the...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers February 10-16, 2018, and includes articles about an AI system that can detect small earthquakes and a genetic analysis technique that could indicate...
View ArticleTracking the Journeys of Migratory Birds
National Geographic has created a series of data visualizations illustrating how migratory birds make their thousand-mile flights to follow the “green wave”—the seasonal growth of vegetation around the...
View ArticleRecap: What Can Be Done to Protect Endangered Government Data?
Federal government data is vital to citizens, businesses, researchers, civil society groups, and journalists. Yet recent events, such as efforts to scrub mentions of environmental concerns from...
View ArticleCataloging Russian Troll Tweets
NBC News has published a database of over 200,000 tweets Twitter identified as coming from Russian troll accounts during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Twitter identified and removed thousands of...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers February 24 – March 2, 2018, and includes articles about a smart mouthguard that can detect concussions and a new algorithm that can let AI learn from...
View ArticleVisualizing Noise Levels in Berlin
German newspaper Berliner Morgenpost has created an interactive map depicting the levels of ambient noise that residential buildings and sensitive buildings, such as hospitals and schools, experience...
View ArticleTraining Virtual Assistants for People Who Are Blind
University of Texas professor Danna Gurari and her colleagues have published a dataset of approximately 31,000 images, plus questions and answers about the contents of each image. The dataset is...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers March 3 – 9, 2018, and includes articles about a robotic cauliflower famer and how new algorithms are helping scientists detect gravitational waves. 1....
View ArticleVisualizing how a Trade War Would Affect Cities in the United States
The Washington Post has created three data visualizations depicting which cities in the United States have the most to gain or lose in a potential trade war caused by President Trump’s decision to...
View ArticleSimulating Neural Networks and Electrical Activity in the Brain
The Allen Institute for Brain Science—a research organization started by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen—has published a database of properties of individual neurons from human and mouse brains. The...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers March 10 – 16, 2018, and includes articles about a new AI system for newsrooms and autonomous flying electric taxis. 1. Machine Learning Makes March...
View ArticleVisualizing the Income Gap Between Black and White Males
The New York Times has created a series of data visualizations demonstrating how black males earn significantly less in adulthood than their white counterparts in the United States, regardless of their...
View ArticleDeveloping AI to Answer Grade-School Science Questions
Researchers at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence—a research organization started by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen—have released a dataset called the AI2 Reasoning Challenge to encourage...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers March 17 – 23, 2018, and includes articles about how an AI system discovered 6,000 new viruses and a helmet that can monitor brain activity while the...
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