Predicting Helpful Responses
Researchers at Stanford University and the University of Washington have created a dataset of responses to Reddit posts that received more support than earlier responses. The dataset contains 385,000...
View ArticleVisualizing Abortion Services in the United States
The New York Times has created a series of visualizations tracking the prevalence of medication-only abortion services in the United States. One visualization shows medication-only abortion providers...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers February 25, 2023 to March 3, 2023 and includes articles on integrating AI tools into new applications and reducing herbicide use with an AI-powered...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers March 4, 2023 to March 10, 2023 and includes articles on launching an autonomous drone delivery network and designing stained glass windows with...
View ArticleAssessing AI Systems for Inclusivity
Meta has released the second version of its Casual Conversations dataset, which is a dataset designed to help AI researchers evaluate their models for fairness and accuracy. The updated dataset...
View ArticleVisualizing Home Heating Sources
The Washington Post has created a series of visualizations tracking the type of fuel used to heat homes in the United States. One visualization shows the top fuel used in each U.S. county, with...
View ArticleVisualizing the Arrival of Spring
The Washington Post has created a series of visualizations tracking whether leaves have sprouted in the United States in 2023. One visualization shows areas of the country with plants that sprouted...
View ArticleExplaining Implausible Images
An international team of researchers has created a dataset of implausible images to better train AI systems to interpret images. The dataset contains 500 images that defy common sense, such as Albert...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers March 11, 2023 to March 17, 2023 and includes articles on managing inventory levels with an autonomous robot and using an AI system to write emails....
View ArticleTraining Warehouse Robots
Amazon has created three datasets to train AI systems in warehouses. The first dataset helps train AI systems to distinguish between individual products and includes over 44,000 close-up images of...
View ArticleVisualizing Political Bias in Bicameral Legislatures
The Economist has created a series of visualizations demonstrating how the structure of a country’s legislature may affect left-wing and right-wing voters. One visualization shows that countries with...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers March 18, 2023 to March 24, 2023 and includes articles on using an autonomous robot to charge electric vehicles and deploying the world’s first...
View ArticleVisualizing Cherry Blossoms’ Blooming Periods
The Wall Street Journal has created a data visualization tracking blooming periods for cherry blossom trees in Washington, D.C. The visualization shows the dates cherry blossom trees reached the floret...
View ArticleImproving Virtual Assistants
Google has created a dataset to better train virtual assistants. The dataset contains over 550,000 conversations between humans and virtual assistants in English, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, and...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers March 25, 2023 to March 31, 2023 and includes articles on opening access to a quantum computer and using an AI system to generate golf commentary. 1....
View ArticleVisualizing California’s Wildflowers
The Wall Street Journal has created a visualization tracking wildflower observations in southern California from 1876 to 2023. The visualization shows poppies as orange dots, suncups as yellow dots,...
View ArticleImproving Adverb Recognition
Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have created a dataset of cooking videos that show actions performed in ways that change according to an adverb to improve adverb recognition models. The...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers April 1, 2023 to April 7, 2023 and includes articles on launching an autonomous public transportation service and tracking data on infrastructure...
View ArticleTraining Image Segmentation Systems
Meta has created a dataset to train AI systems to identify which pixels in an image represent an individual object. The dataset contains over 1.1 billion masks, or annotations distinguishing objects,...
View ArticleVisualizing Power Generation Sources
The Washington Post has created a series of interactive visualizations tracking the types of energy used to generate electricity in the United States. One visualization displays the types of energy...
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