Visualizing Firestorms
The New York Times has created a series of visualizations showing the impact of the Dixie Fire in northern California in July. Extreme wildfires can generate conditions similar to thunderstorms such as...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers October 23, 2021 to October 29, 2021 and includes articles on developing an AI system to communicate with whales and launching the fastest quantum...
View ArticleTracking Freedom of Information Act Libraries
Lisa DeLuca, a data librarian associated with Seton Hall University, has updated a dataset tracking Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) libraries. The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requires federal...
View ArticleVisualizing Television Genres
Flowing Data, an online publication that creates data visualizations, has created a visualization tracking the popularity of television genres since 1945. The visualization uses data from IMDb, an...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers October 30, 2021 to November 5, 2021 and includes articles on sailing autonomous boats and learning about extinct animal species in an augmented reality...
View ArticleVisualizing How Much Men and Women Work Has Changed Over Time
Flowing Data, an online publication that creates data visualizations, has created a visualization showing how many weeks per year men and women spent doing paid work from 1960 to 2019. According to the...
View ArticleTraining Object Recognition Algorithms On Small Data
Microsoft and City, University of London have released ORBIT, a dataset of annotated videos depicting various objects. ORBIT is designed to train AI applications for individuals in the blind or low...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers November 6, 2021 to November 12, 2021 and includes articles on using a supercomputer to identify methods of destroying harmful chemicals and touring...
View ArticleVisualizing Destination Signs on U.S. Interstates
Matt Dzugan, a data scientist associated with U.S.-based data organization Observable, has created a series of visualizations mapping all the sections of roads that contain signs for given U.S. cities....
View ArticleTraining Sign Language Classification Systems
Researchers at Oxford University have created a dataset of BBC program content to train British Sign Language (BSL) classification systems. The dataset contains 1,962 segments of 426 BSL-interpreted...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers November 13, 2021 to November 19, 2021 and includes articles on autonomous library carts and training an AI system to detect lies. 1. Advancing Quantum...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers November 20, 2021 to November 26, 2021 and includes articles on using a supercomputer to evaluate vaccine rollout plans and visiting the International...
View ArticleTracking Violence Against Environmental Defenders
Tierra de Resistentes, an international organization of environmental journalists, has released a dataset of attacks against environmental advocates in Latin America. The dataset contains information...
View ArticleVisualizing the Effect of Climate Pledges on Global Temperatures
The New York Times has created a series of visualizations depicting the effects different government climate change pledges will have on global temperatures. The visualizations use data on government...
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This week’s list of data news highlights covers November 27, 2021 to December 3, 2021 and includes articles on using an AI system to review soccer plays and launching a digital vaccine passport in...
View ArticleTraining Counterfactual Statement Detection Models
Amazon has created a dataset of sentences to train language processing models to identify counterfactual statements. Counterfactual statements, which are statements that take the form “if p were true,...
View ArticleVisualizing Soccer Matches Between 2021 FIFA Arab Cup Teams
Al Jazeera has created an interactive visualization illustrating the results of every match played between countries participating in the 2021 FIFA Arab Cup tournament over the last six decades. One...
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This week’s list of top data news highlights covers December 4, 2021 to December 10, 2021 and includes articles on forecasting asteroid impact scenarios and advancing mathematical proofs for the first...
View ArticleVisualizing Social Distancing in Honey Bees Hives
The Economist has created a series of visualizations showing how honey bees practice social distancing when infected with the Varroa destructor parasitic mite. In the healthy hive, forager bees...
View ArticleTracking Citizenship Laws
The Global Citizenship Observatory, an international research network dedicated to citizenship laws and electoral rights, has created a dataset of citizenship laws around the world. The dataset...
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