Visualizing Final Rankings for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics
The New York Times has created a series of interactive visualizations depicting how rankings in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games would differ depending on the relative value assigned to gold, silver, and...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers August 21, 2021 – August 27, 2021 and includes articles on delivering food with sidewalk delivery robots and measuring the depth of floodwaters with...
View ArticleVisualizing Daily Activities
Flowing Data, an online publication that creates data visualizations, has created a clock-shaped visualization that shows how people in the United States spend their time. The visualization uses...
View ArticleTracking Government Revenue Trends
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) has updated a dataset tracking government revenue trends. The dataset now contains revenue data for 196...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers August 28, 2021 – September 3, 2021 and includes articles on forecasting drought conditions and performing spinal surgery with the help of augmented...
View ArticleDetecting Prohibited Items
Researchers at State Key Laboratory of Computer Science and Beihang University in China and JD Finance America Corporation in the United States have released the largest dataset of x-ray images of...
View ArticleVisualizing Power Outages After Hurricane Ida
The NASA Earth Observatory has created an interactive visualization depicting the severity of power outages in New Orleans after Hurricane Ida. The visualization uses satellite data to show differences...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers September 4, 2021 – September 10, 2021 and includes articles on cashier-less stores and using a supercomputer to map the DNA of the world’s rarest...
View ArticleVisualizing Population Density in the United States
FlowingData, an online publication that creates data visualizations, has created a series of visualizations depicting population density in the United States. The visualizations use population data...
View ArticleTracking Political Parties in India
The Trivedi Centre for Political Data at Ashoka University has released a dataset tracking every political party that has contested a national or state election since 1962. Many of the country’s...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers September 11, 2021 to September 17, 2021 and includes articles on mapping the universe with a supercomputer and touring Woodstock with augmented reality....
View ArticleVisualizing Popular Genres of Music
Georgios Karamanis, a data visualization designer in Sweden, has created a visualization tracking the popularity of music genres in the United States since 1960. The visualization shows the music...
View ArticleTracking Worker Strikes and Protests
China Labour Bulletin, a workers’ rights advocacy organization based in Hong Kong, has released a dataset tracking worker strikes and protests across China. The dataset contains the date, location,...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers September 18, 2021 to September 24, 2021 and includes articles on repairing the International Space Station with augmented reality and predicting...
View ArticleVisualizing Undersea Internet Cables
TeleGeography, a U.S.-based telecommunications market research and consulting firm, has created a visualization of undersea Internet cables around the world. The interactive visualization shows the...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers October 9, 2021 to October 15, 2021 and includes articles on determining the impact of climate change on the global population and building a digital...
View ArticleTraining AI Systems on Conversational Language
Amazon has released a dataset of 11,000 conversations from workers on Mechanical Turk, Amazon’s platform for hiring remote workers for on-demand tasks, to help train AI systems to understand...
View ArticleVisualizing Political Donations from the Gambling Industry
Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News has created a series of visualizations depicting the scope of political donations from Australia’s gambling industry. The visualizations show which...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers October 16, 2021 to October 22, 2021 and includes articles on monitoring remote areas for wildfires and unveiling the world’s largest augmented reality...
View ArticleTracking Financial Disclosures in the U.S. Judicial Branch
The Free Law Project, a U.S.-based nonprofit organization dedicated to expanding access to legal resources, has released a dataset tracking financial disclosures, which are self-reported assessments of...
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