10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers April 8, 2023 to April 14, 2023 and includes articles on adding augmented reality lenses to conference calls and tracking data on higher education...
View ArticleTraining Animation Systems
Meta has created a dataset to train AI systems to animate artwork. The dataset contains nearly 180,000 photographs of amateur drawings of human-like figures on paper, as well as annotations indicating...
View ArticleVisualizing the Carbon Impact of Foods Relative to Bananas
The Economist has created a series of visualizations showing the environmental impact of producing different foods indexed to the banana. The visualizations compare foods’ carbon emissions per weight,...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers April 15, 2023 to April 21, 2023 and includes articles on using quantum computers to advance mRNA research and training AI systems to monitor coral...
View ArticleVisualizing the Names of Marijuana Dispensaries
The Washington Post has created a series of visualizations comparing the names of marijuana dispensaries in the United States. One visualization shows common words found in dispensaries’ names as...
View ArticleSolving Algebra Problems
Researchers at Stanford University have created a dataset to train AI systems to solve algebra problems. The dataset contains 222 algebra word problems that require multiple steps to solve. Teachers...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers April 22, 2023 to April 28, 2023 and includes articles on unveiling quantum computers and deploying the world’s first autonomous, electric ferry. 1....
View ArticleVisualizing Tree Migration
The Washington Post has created a series of interactive visualizations illustrating how climate change will affect the location of tree species in the United States. One visualization shows how the...
View ArticleImproving Legal AI Systems
Researchers at the University of Bern in Switzerland have created a dataset to improve AI systems in the legal industry. The dataset contains over 130,000 sentences from laws and case judgements...
View ArticleFAA Standardization Could Help Delivery Drones Take Flight
Drone delivery should be taking off, but the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) continued use of one-off waivers for operating delivery drones, instead of comprehensive regulations, have grounded...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers April 29, 2023 to May 5, 2023 and includes articles on launching an AI-powered tool for legal research and expanding autonomous taxi zones. 1....
View ArticleU.S. Policymakers Should Learn From Countries Choosing Not to Regulate AI
Every week more policymakers in the United States add to the chorus of voices calling for new laws to regulate AI. One reason for adopting this position may be because of a combined Brussels and...
View ArticleVisualizing COVID-19 Excess Deaths
Bloomberg Opinion has created a series of visualizations tracking countries’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. One visualization shows the number of actual deaths over the number of expected deaths....
View ArticleAnalyzing Interactions Between Humans and Objects
An international team of researchers has created a dataset to train AI systems to recognize how humans interact with inanimate objects. The dataset contains over two million video frames of humans...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers May 6, 2023 to May 12, 2023 and includes articles on installing sensors to monitor air quality and building a robotic snake to explore one of...
View ArticleTraining Small Language Models
Researchers at Microsoft have created a dataset of short stories to better train small language models, which require less computing power and resources than larger models. The team used GPT-3.5 and...
View ArticleVisualizing Eurovision Songs
Reuters has created a series of interactive visualizations comparing songs played at Eurovision. For each country, the visualizations portray Eurovision songs on Spotify as flowers, with the length of...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers May 13, 2023 to May 19, 2023 and includes articles on using an AI system to replicate voices and launching a data dashboard to track harmful...
View ArticleVisualizing Rent Burdens
Moody’s, a U.S.-based credit ratings company, has created a series of interactive data visualizations tracking rent prices in the United States. One visualization shows the rental markets where...
View ArticleImproving Translation Models
Researchers at Google, Stanford University, and Queen Mary University of London have created a dataset to improve translation models. The dataset contains 20 hours of recorded audio featuring English...
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