Visualizing Wildfire Risks to Residential Areas
The New York Times has created a series of visualizations tracking wildfire risks to residential areas in the contiguous United States. The visualizations show which zip codes hold the highest wildfire...
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This week’s list of top data news highlights covers May 14, 2022 to May 20, 2022 and includes articles on the world’s first autonomous cargo ship and shopping with smart grocery carts. 1. Tracking...
View ArticleTracking Banknote Subjects
Researchers at The Pudding, an online publication that creates visual essays, have created a dataset tracking individuals who appear on banknotes in 38 countries. The dataset consists of 241...
View ArticleVisualizing Tucker Carlson Tonight
The New York Times has created a series of visualizations examining 1,150 episodes of Tucker Carlson Tonight, the most-watched cable news show on U.S. cable television. The visualizations track the...
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This week’s list of top data news highlights covers May 21, 2022 to May 27, 2022 and includes articles on collecting data on urban environments and using an AI system to track whales. 1. Advancing...
View ArticleVisualizing Firearm Deaths
FlowingData, an online publication, has used data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to create a visualization about the causes of death for 1- to 19-year-olds in the United States....
View ArticleTracking Art Garfunkel’s Favorite Books
Corey Christensen, an AI engineer in Minnesota, has created a dataset tracking every book Art Garfunkel, a folk singer with the band Simon & Garfunkel, has read since 1968. The dataset contains...
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This week’s list of top data news highlights covers May 28, 2022 to June 3, 2022 and includes articles on creating an AI system that can compose music and celebrating pride month with augmented...
View ArticleTracking School Shootings
Researchers at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School have created a dataset tracking every incident since 1970 in which someone brandished or fired a gun at a school or a bullet hit school property. It...
View ArticleVisualizing Political Engagement
Axios, an online news publication, has created a series of visualizations tracking public interest in political issues by congressional district. One visualization uses Google Trends data to rank...
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This week’s list of top data news highlights covers June 4, 2022 to June 10, 2022 and includes articles on using high-performance computing systems to calculate pi to 100 trillion digits and launching...
View ArticleCompiling Congressional Districts
Researchers at Michigan State University have created a dataset tracking the history of U.S. congressional districts. The dataset consists of congressional districts from 1789 to 2021 and includes...
View ArticleVisualizing Noise Pollution
Climate activists with Possible, a U.K.-based environmental charity organization, have created a series of data visualizations depicting noise pollution in Paris, New York, and London. The...
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This week’s list of top data news highlights covers June 11, 2022 to June 17, 2022 and includes articles on launching exascale supercomputers and creating custom paint colors with an AI system. 1....
View ArticleTracking Political Prisoners in Hong Kong
The Hong Kong Democracy Council, a U.S.-based nonprofit organization dedicated to the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong, has created a dataset tracking political prisoners in Hong Kong. The dataset...
View ArticleVisualizing the Market Share of Web Browsers
James Eagle, a data visualization creator in Switzerland, has created an animation showing the market share of web browsers over time. The graphic shows the market share of different web browsers from...
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This week’s list of top data news highlights covers June 18, 2022 to June 24, 2022 and includes articles on using data analytics to improve government websites and deploying autonomous robots in...
View ArticleVisualizing Driving Distances to Abortion Clinics
The New York Times has created a series of interactive visualizations showing how far patients have to drive to receive a legal abortion after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. The...
View ArticleTracking Monkeypox Cases
Global.health, a global public health data repository and visualization platform, has created a dataset tracking monkeypox cases around the world. The dataset contains information on each country’s...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers June 25, 2022 to July 1, 2022 and includes articles on using a robot umpire to call pitches in baseball games and teaching math lessons with...
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