10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers July 8, 2023 to July 14, 2023 and includes articles on predicting hurricane activity and using a robot, known as the Autocado, to prepare avocados...
View ArticleVisualizing Spending After the COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdowns
The Economist has created a series of visualizations comparing in-person spending before and after the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns. One visualization shows the times of the day people spent money in an...
View ArticleWriting Chart Captions
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created a dataset of over 12,400 technology, trade, retail, and sports charts. For each chart, the dataset contains an image of the chart,...
View ArticleVisualizing the Ages of Labor Forces
The New York Times has created a series of visualizations comparing the ages of countries’ labor forces. One visualization displays the age of each country’s labor force from 1990 to 2050. Blue circles...
View ArticleImproving Speech Recognition Systems
Meta has created a dataset to improve accuracy in speech recognition AI systems. The dataset contains audio recordings and transcriptions of over 27,000 verbal commands and messages from around 600...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers July 15, 2023 to July 21, 2023 and includes articles on surveying fisheries with autonomous vehicles and using an AI system to draft news articles....
View ArticleVisualizing Alcohol Consumption in the United States
The Washington Post has created a series of visualizations tracking changes in alcohol consumption in the United States. One visualization shows the rates at which alcohol consumption and...
View ArticleBuilding Maps
The Overture Maps Foundation, an initiative founded by Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Dutch location technology company TomTom, has created an open maps dataset. It includes over 59 million places of...
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This week’s list of top data news highlights covers July 22, 2023 to July 28, 2023 and includes articles on launching an AI-powered website designer and teaching robots to complete simple tasks. 1....
View ArticleMapping Community and Technical College Locations
The Civic Mapping Initiative, in partnership with Seldin/Haring-Smith Foundation based in Delaware, have created a dataset to map community and technical colleges in the federal Postsecondary Education...
View ArticleTracking Record High Heat in the United States
The Pudding created a visualization to explore record-high temperatures in the United States. The country is currently experiencing the hottest summer on record, and this visualization tracks how many...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers July 29, 2023 to August 4, 2023 and includes articles on using algorithms to identify hazardous near-Earth asteroids and democratizing access to...
View ArticleImproving Image Generation Systems
Meta has created a dataset to improve image generation systems that create realistic looking images of unreal situations, such as a fish swimming in the desert. The dataset contains over 215,000 images...
View ArticleVisualizing the Careers of Barbie Dolls
The Washington Post has created a series of visualizations tracking the jobs assigned to Barbie dolls in the past sixty years. One visualization groups the types of jobs into five categories: the arts...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers August 5, 2023 to August 11, 2023 and includes articles on using an autonomous robot to clean lakes and launching a data dashboard to track...
View ArticleVisualizing Affordable Rent Wages
The Economist has created a series of visualizations tracking rent affordability in the United States. One visualization compares median wages (depicted in blue) with the wages necessary for affordable...
View ArticleImproving Document Understanding
Google has curated a dataset of business documents, such as receipts, insurance quotes, and financial statements, to help train systems automatically extract data from such documents. The dataset...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers August 12, 2023 to August 18, 2023 and includes articles on launching an AI system that can answer tax questions and using a supercomputer to analyze...
View ArticleTraining Language Translation Systems
Meta has created the largest open dataset to train AI systems to translate languages in speech and text to date. The dataset contains over 443,000 hours of speech paired with texts and around 29,000...
View ArticleVisualizing the Arrival of Fall
The Washington Post has created a series of visualizations illustrating the arrival of the fall season in the United States. One visualization compares the release dates of pumpkin spice lattes at...
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