Visualizing Sources of Carbon Emissions by Income
Bloomberg has created a series of visualizations showing the differences between carbon emissions that individuals with high and low incomes emit in countries around the world. One visualization...
View ArticleTracking Congressional Earmarks
The Bipartisan Policy Center, a think tank that promotes ideas from both sides of the political spectrum in the U.S. Congress, has created a dataset tracking congressional earmarks, which are funds...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers April 2, 2022 to April 8, 2022 and includes articles on predicting players’ performances at the Masters with a supercomputer and using an AI system...
View ArticleVisualizing Climate Change
Ed Hawkins, a climate scientist at the University of Reading, has created a visualization depicting changes in temperature anomalies from 1880 to 2021. For each year, a spiral is drawn representing the...
View ArticleMapping Critical Infrastructure Around the World
Researchers at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam have created a spatial dataset of critical infrastructure around the world. The dataset shows the location of 39 types of critical infrastructure, including...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers April 9, 2022 to April 15, 2022 and includes articles on using virtual reality to provide remote medical care to Ukrainian refugees and detecting...
View ArticleTraining Multilingual Language Models
Amazon has created a dataset of common phrases in 51 languages to train massive multilingual natural language understanding models. The dataset contains 19,521 common phrases such as “what is the...
View ArticleVisualizing Ukraine’s Trade
Visual Capitalist, an online publisher that creates data visualizations, has created a visualization showing Ukraine’s top trading partners, imports, and exports in 2020. The visualization displays the...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers April 16, 2022 to April 22, 2022 and includes articles on using data to close the digital divide and increasing voter turnout with augmented reality....
View ArticleVisualizing Rent Increases During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Washington Post has created a series of visualizations displaying changes in monthly rents during the COVID-19 pandemic. One visualization shows the percentage change in average monthly rents since...
View ArticleTracking Poor Conditions in Healthcare Facilities
BuzzFeed News has created two datasets tracking conditions in intermediate care facilities (ICF), which are residential facilities for patients with intellectual or developmental disabilities, in...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers April 23, 2022 to April 29, 2022 and includes articles on using a supercomputer to model storm surges and eradicating invasive species with an AI...
View ArticleVisualizing Abortion Restrictions
FiveThirtyEight, a data journalism website, has created a series of visualizations showing abortion restrictions in the United States. The visualizations show factors that impact access to abortion...
View ArticleTraining Object Classification Models
Meta has created a dataset of first-person point of view videos taken in diverse environments. The dataset contains 12,000 videos featuring 200 object categories. Each video was filmed from a...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers April 30, 2022 to May 6, 2022 and includes articles on building urban heat maps with crowdsourced data and using augmented reality to better perform...
View ArticleThe Importance of Crafting a Transatlantic Data Flows Agreement that Works
Data flows are critical to a data-driven economy. Restricting this transfer of information hinders the growth of transatlantic trade and innovation, a relationship worth $7 trillion. That’s why...
View ArticleVisualizing Oreo Cookie Splits
Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created a visualization displaying the location of creme after an oreo cookie is split in half. The visualization shows the proportion of creme...
View ArticleCompiling a Dataset of LGBTQI+ Policymakers
Researchers at Princeton University have created a dataset of elected officials around the world who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, transgender, non-binary, gender-non-conforming,...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers May 7, 2022 to May 13, 2022 and includes articles on using an AI system to find new asteroids and building a robotic chef that can taste food. 1....
View ArticleTracking the State of Data for Good
An international team of researchers has created the Global Data Barometer, which measures the state of data for social good in 109 countries from May 2019 to May 2021. The included dataset contains...
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