10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers August 13, 2022 to August 19, 2022 and includes articles on using an AI system to build a global map of ant species and adding augmented reality...
View ArticleVisualizing Water Restrictions in Arizona
The Wall Street Journal has created a series of visualizations showing how cuts in water allocations from the Colorado River will impact distribution in Arizona in 2023. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation...
View ArticleTraining Product Search Models
Amazon has created a dataset of difficult search queries from online shoppers to help train product search models and advance research in ranking strategies. The dataset contains 97,345 queries in...
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This week’s list of top data news highlights covers August 20, 2022 to August 26, 2022 and includes articles on launching a data dashboard to track public sentiment towards meat and using smart glasses...
View ArticleTraining Bankruptcy Prediction Models
Researchers at the University of Parma in Italy and the University of Florida in the United States have created a dataset of 8,262 public companies listed in the New York Stock Exchange or NASDAQ, two...
View ArticleVisualizing TikTok Musicians’ Success
Researchers at The Pudding, an online publication that creates visual essays, have created a series of visualizations showing the extent of established and emerging musicians’ success on TikTok. One...
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This week’s list of top data news highlights covers August 27, 2022 to September 2, 2022 and includes articles on aggregating data from government agencies to track wildfires and using an AI system to...
View ArticleVisualizing Baby Names After Hurricanes
Axios, an online news publication, has created a visualization showing how major hurricanes impact the prevalence of babies that have the same name as it. For each name, the visualization displays the...
View ArticleTraining Patent Search Models
Google has created a dataset of phrases to train patent search models. Many patent owners use non-standard language to describe their patents’ subject, such as describing a soccer ball as a spherical...
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This week’s list of top data news highlights covers September 3, 2022 to September 9, 2022 and includes articles on personalizing skincare with an AI system and collecting data to map urban heat...
View ArticleVisualizing Stock Trades Made By Members of Congress
The New York Times has created a series of visualizations tracking stock trades made by members of the U.S. Congress. The visualizations show the representatives or senators who reported trading a...
View ArticleTracking Voter Identification Laws
Tom Barton, a researcher at the University of London, has created a dataset tracking voter identification laws in 246 jurisdictions around the world. The dataset notes each jurisdiction’s requirements...
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This week’s list of top data news highlights covers September 10, 2022 to September 16, 2022 and includes articles on using real-time data to improve road safety and training an AI system to identify...
View ArticleVisualizing the Median Age of U.S. Policymakers
Business Insider has created a series of visualizations tracking federal policymakers’ ages in the United States. One of the visualizations shows the median age of the U.S. Congress from 1789 to 2022,...
View ArticleTracking U.S. Professors’ Educational Institution
Researchers at the University of Colorado, Boulder have created a dataset tracking educational backgrounds for tenure-track faculty at universities that grant Doctors of Philosophy (PhD) degrees in the...
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This week’s list of top data news highlights covers September 17, 2022 to September 23, 2022 and includes articles on improving store operations with a digital twin and creating an augmented reality...
View ArticleRegulators Should Increase Credit Reporting and Expand the Truth in Lending...
The popularity of Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) services in e-commerce is growing. Researchers estimate that global consumers spend $100 billion globally in BNPL transactions annually and expect BNPL...
View ArticleVisualizing Demand in the Housing Market
The Washington Post has created a series of visualizations depicting demand changes in the housing market. One visualization shows the percentage of homes that sold within two weeks from January 2012...
View ArticleTracking Software Use in Biomedical Research
Researchers at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a U.S.-based philanthropic organization, have created a dataset tracking mentions of open-source software in biomedical research papers. In curating the...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers September 24, 2022 to September 30, 2022 and includes articles on using an AI-powered laser to zap cockroaches and deploying ADA-compliant autonomous...
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