10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers July 3, 2021 – July 9, 2021 and includes articles on mapping the shape of the universe and launching smart e-scooters. 1. Classifying Galaxies...
View ArticleVisualizing Water Shortages in Western Reservoirs
The Washington Post has released a series of visualizations depicting the intensity of drought conditions in Western states. The graphics show how far water levels in reservoirs across the region have...
View ArticleAdvancing Computer Vision Research in the Retail Industry
Amazon and the University of California, Berkeley have released a dataset of product images to advance computer vision research for retail applications. The dataset, known as the Amazon Berkeley...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers July 10, 2021 – July 16, 2021 and includes articles on fighting wildfires and designing wearable technology for the U.S. Olympic team. 1. Spotting Anemia...
View ArticleVisualizing Ice Cream Preferences in the United States
Instacart, a U.S.-based grocery delivery company, has released a visualization depicting ice cream preferences in the United States in honor of National Ice Cream Day. The map shows the most preferred...
View ArticleCurating Eviction Laws in the United States
Legal Services Corporation, an independent legal aid organization established by Congress, has released a dataset of eviction laws across the United States. The dataset contains information on...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers July 17, 2021 – July 23, 2021 and includes articles on the Olympic Games and creating safer roadways. 1. Exploring the Olympic Games USA Today, a...
View ArticleTracking Lightning Strikes Around the World
Researchers at the University of Hong Kong have released a dataset of lightning strikes around the world. The dataset compiles raw data from the World Wide Lightning Location Network to show...
View ArticleVisualizing Olympic Swimmers’ Speeds
The New York Times has released a series of visualizations that show how fast Olympic athletes swim. The graphics show each swimmer’s speed in relation to their opponents during the 4×100 meter...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers July 24, 2021 – July 30, 2021 and includes articles on classifying COVID-19 variants and shopping for back-to-school clothes. 1. Tracking Olympic...
View ArticleTracking Refugee Resettlement in the United States
Researchers at the University of Göttingen, Heidelberg University, and the University of Western Australia have released a dataset of demographic information for over two million refugees who resettled...
View ArticleVisualizing What Makes People Happy
Flowing Data, an online publication that creates data visualizations, has created a series of visualizations depicting what makes people happy. The visualizations use data from HappyDB, a crowdsourced...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers July 31, 2021 – August 6, 2021 and includes articles on electronic identification programs and assessing the condition of infrastructure in major...
View ArticleComparing Infrastructure Bills
The New York Times has created a series of visualizations comparing President Biden’s infrastructure plan with the bipartisan infrastructure bill in the U.S. Senate. The visualizations show categories...
View ArticleCompiling Building Footprints for Social Good
Google has released a dataset of 516 million buildings across 19.4 million square kilometers in Africa. Google created the dataset with an AI system that analyzed satellite images to locate buildings,...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers August 7, 2021 – August 13, 2021 and includes articles on AI systems recommending pizza and exploring the Berlin Wall with augmented reality. 1....
View ArticleVisualizing How DC Waterways Have Evolved
The Department of Energy and Environment in Washington, D.C. has created a series of visualizations depicting waterways in the city. The visualizations use historic maps on streams, rivers,...
View ArticleTracking Alternative Fueling Facilities Across the United States
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has released a geospatial dataset that shows alternative fueling and charging infrastructure along the U.S. national highway system. The dataset contains...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers August 14, 2021 – August 20, 2021 and includes articles on humanoid robots and using a supercomputer to calculate 62.8 trillion digits of pi. 1....
View ArticleTraining Speech-Enabled Applications
Nvidia and Mozilla have updated a dataset of crowdsourced speech data. The dataset now contains 13,905 hours of speech in 76 languages. The newest version of the dataset features 182,000 unique voices,...
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