Visualizing Income Mobility Across Racial and Gender Groups
The New York Times has published a series of animated charts illustrating income mobility across racial and gender groups. Last week, the newspaper created visualizations demonstrating that Black males...
View ArticleDeveloping Computer Vision to Detect Natural Disasters
Defense Innovation Unit Experimental—a U.S. Department of Defense organization that helps commercial groups develop technologies useful to the military—and the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers March 24– 30, 2018, and includes articles about how an AI system discovered 6,000 new viruses and a helmet that can monitor brain activity while the...
View ArticleRecap: Can the EU Lead in AI After the Arrival of the GDPR?
The EU is investing significantly in artificial intelligence (AI), yet the implementation of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in May poses a threat to the development and use of AI in...
View ArticleVisualizing the Imaginary Link Between Crime and Immigration
The Marshall Project, a journalism nonprofit, has created a series of charts illustrating the negative correlation between immigration and crime in the United States. The Marshall Project used data...
View ArticleTeaching Computers to Answer Visual Questions
Researchers at Georgia Tech and Virginia Tech have launched the 2018 Visual Question Answering (VQA) Challenge, providing training data for participants to compete to develop the best AI system that...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers March 31 – April 6, 2018, and includes articles about how Australia is using AI to help prevent shark attacks and a predictive analytics tool that can...
View ArticleAdvancing Autonomous Vehicle Research
Baidu has published a dataset called ApolloScape to foster advancements in autonomous vehicle research. The dataset includes 147,000 high resolution images with every pixel annotated to indicate...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers April 7-13, 2018, and includes articles about how Dubai is testing smart license plates and a new satellite that will be able to spot methane leaks from...
View ArticleCreating Data Visualizations Without Knowing How to Code
A research collaboration between Adobe and Georgia Tech has published a free data visualization tool called Data Illustrator that allows users to create visualizations in a graphical interface without...
View ArticleAdvancing AI to Detect Malware
Cybersecurity research firm Endgame has published a dataset called the Endgame Malware BEnchmark for Research (EMBER) to foster the development of AI systems that can detect malware. The dataset...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers April 14-20, 2018, and includes articles about a microscope that uses machine learning to detect cancer and a new method for detecting passwords...
View ArticleCreating Interactive Charts With Minimal Code
Uber has published a data visualization library called React-viz that allows users to create interactive visualizations ranging from scatter plots to radar charts with minimum coding. Uber built the...
View ArticleTracking Evictions in the United States
The Eviction Lab at Princeton University, a collection of researchers and students, has created the first publicly available database of evictions in the United States. The data contains 83 million...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers April 21-27, 2018, and includes articles about major initiatives in Europe to invest in AI and a method for mapping poverty with mobile phone data. 1....
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers April 28 – May 4, 2018, and includes articles about the full launch of the United States’ precision medicine initiative and a virtual scavenger hunt that...
View ArticleVisualizing Segregation in the United States
The Washington Post has created a series of data visualizations demonstrating that the United States is still largely segregated by race, despite the fact that it is becoming increasingly diverse. The...
View ArticleAccelerating Computer Vision Research
Google has published the fourth version of its Open Images dataset, the largest publicly accessible dataset of images with object location annotations, to provide researchers with a resource to create...
View ArticleMapping Immune Cells in the Human Body
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Broad Institute, a genomic research center, have published a database of genetic profiles of over half a million immune cells. The data...
View ArticleVisualizing the Pay Gap Between Men and Women in the UK
The Financial Times has created a collection of data visualizations showing that 89 percent of women in the United Kingdom work at companies with a pay gap favoring men. The newspaper analyzed data...
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