10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers May 20, 2023 to May 26, 2023 and includes articles on building robotic bees and using an AI system to create antibiotics. 1. Generating Movement An...
View ArticleVisualizing Outcomes for January 6th Defendants
The Wall Street Journal has created a series of visualizations tracking case outcomes for the 1,033 defendants arrested in connection with the January 6th riots. One visualization shows those convicted...
View ArticleImproving Research Methods
The Macrocosm Consortium, an international AI research organization, has created a dataset of embeddings for titles and abstracts for every research paper on arXiv, a U.S.-based repository for research...
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This week’s list of top data news highlights covers May 27, 2023 to June 2, 2023 and includes articles on tracking recycling data and using an autonomous robot to charge electric vehicles. 1....
View ArticleTraining Robotic Chefs
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have created a dataset of conversations about recipes to improve language models used for cooking. The dataset, named ChattyChef, contains 267...
View ArticleVisualizing Doughnut Preferences in the United States
The Washington Post has created a series of visualizations tracking doughnut brand diversity and density in the United States. One visualization shows the most common doughnut brand in each census...
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This week’s list of top data news highlights covers June 3, 2023 to June 9, 2023 and includes articles on building robots that can eliminate invasive species and opening a quantum data center. 1....
View ArticleVisualizing Light Pollution
Axios, an online news publication, has created a visualization tracking light pollution in the United States. The visualization shows the distance people have to travel to view dark skies, with short...
View ArticleImproving Autonomous Robots
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and Toyota have created a dataset to better train autonomous robots to interact with humans. The dataset consists of 75 hours of camera footage...
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This week’s list of top data news highlights covers June 10, 2023 to June 16, 2023 and includes articles on using an AI system to create a Beatles song and building a robot that can play tennis. 1....
View ArticleVisualizing Increases in Global Temperatures
Ed Hawkins, a climate scientist at the University of Reading, has created a series of visualizations tracking rises in global temperatures. One visualization shows the average temperatures in the...
View ArticleImproving Audio Simulation
Researchers at Stanford University and Adobe, a U.S.-based computer software company, have created a dataset of recordings of object impact sounds. The dataset contains 150,000 recordings of a small...
View ArticleFake Reviews Remain a Problem, But Policymakers Can Cut Them Off at the Source
Online customer reviews impact millions of dollars in online commerce and create an important communication pathway for consumers and businesses. Reviews help consumers learn about products, services,...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers June 17, 2023 to June 23, 2023 and includes articles on using an autonomous robot to reforest the Amazon and launching a data dashboard to track...
View ArticleVisualizing Phone Usage in the United States
The Washington Post has created a series of visualizations tracking the types of phones U.S. households use. One visualization compares the percentages of households with only wireless phones in each...
View ArticleTraining Musical AI Systems
Researchers at ETH Zurich have created a dataset of over 15.3 million songs from over 400,000 musicians. The dataset includes audio and text embeddings, links to a YouTube video and Spotify preview of...
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This week’s list of top data news highlights covers June 24, 2023 to June 30, 2023 and includes articles on tracking data on sea turtles and testing cashierless stores. 1. Designing Drugs Insilico...
View ArticleVisualizing Hot Dog Eating Competitions
The Washington Post has created a visualization comparing performances in Nathan’s Famous hot dog eating contest, a U.S.-based competition in which contestants attempt to eat as many hot dogs as...
View ArticleTracking Attacks on Human Rights Defenders
Researchers at Dataminr, a U.S.-based AI company, have created a dataset of online news articles discussing attacks on human rights defenders. The dataset contains 500 articles and includes information...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers July 1, 2023 to July 7, 2023 and includes articles on taking AI-generated quizzes and launching a data dashboard to track mosquitoes. 1. Optimizing...
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