Tracking Banned Books
PEN America, a U.S.-based nonprofit organization dedicated to free expression through literature, has created a dataset tracking books banned or restricted in school classrooms and libraries in the...
View ArticleVisualizing Mass Shootings in the United States
The Washington Post has created a series of visualizations tracking the number of mass shootings in the United States. One visualization shows the number of mass shootings that occurred every day in...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers July 2, 2022 to July 8, 2022 and includes articles on building a smart city and using an AI system to detect rip currents. 1. Translating Languages...
View ArticleVisualizing Income Trajectories
The New York Times has created a series of visualizations tracking income trajectories for U.S. children whose fathers were born in the United States and U.S. children whose fathers were born abroad....
View ArticleTraining Land Cover Classification Models
Radiant Earth Foundation, a U.S.-based nonprofit organization that creates machine learning resources for sustainable development goals, has created the world’s first global dataset of satellite images...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers July 9, 2022 to July 15, 2022 and includes articles on creating smart jean pockets and verifying information found online. 1. Sorting Through...
View ArticleVisualizing the Housing Shortage
The New York Times has created a series of visualizations depicting the housing shortage in the United States. The visualizations show areas with housing surpluses as shades of purple and areas with...
View ArticleTracking Heat Metrics
Researchers at Boston University have created a dataset tracking heat metrics across the contiguous United States from 2000 to 2020. The dataset contains daily estimates of each counties’ minimum and...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers July 16, 2022 to July 22, 2022 and includes articles on creating an augmented reality version of Stonehenge and using an AI system to detect...
View ArticleVisualizing Household Income Distribution
Visual Capitalist, an online publisher that creates data visualizations, has created a visualization depicting household income distribution in the United States. The visualization features a grid of...
View ArticleTracking Venture Studios
Jim Moran, a U.S.-based entrepreneur, has created two datasets tracking venture studios, or companies that launch start-ups, and the start-ups they’ve built. The first dataset contains 262 ventures...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers July 23, 2022 to July 29, 2022 and includes articles on installing artificial reefs to collect marine data and training an AI system to detect...
View ArticleTracking Legal Documents
Researchers at Stanford University have created a dataset of legal and administrative documents written in the English language to help train AI systems on legal text. The dataset contains documents...
View ArticleVisualizing the Impact of Cross-Class Friendships on Income
The New York Times has created a series of visualizations examining the effect poor children’s cross-class friendships have on their income rank as adults. One visualization displays each zip code in...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers July 30, 2022 to August 5, 2022 and includes articles on practicing complex surgeries with virtual reality and using an AI system to create an...
View ArticleVisualizing Pay Gaps Between Men and Women
The Wall Street Journal has created a series of visualizations showing differences between pay figures for men and women who graduated with the same degree from the same undergraduate or graduate...
View ArticleComparing Voice User Interfaces
Researchers at the University of Toronto have compiled a dataset tracking dialogue on Star Trek: The Next Generation between the TV show’s characters and the central computer. The dataset contains...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers August 6, 2022 to August 12, 2022 and includes articles on making autonomous vehicles more accessible for passengers with visual impairments and...
View ArticleTracking Migration Patterns in the United States
Researchers at Harvard University and the U.S. Census Bureau have created a dataset tracking migration patterns for adults in the United States born between 1984 and 1992. The dataset compares the...
View ArticleVisualizing Gas Supplies in the European Union
Reuters has created a series of visualizations showing how close EU countries are to achieving bloc-wide targets for gas storage. As supplies from Russia to the EU have dwindled in the wake of the war...
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