10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers August 19, 2023 to August 25, 2023 and includes articles on using an AI system to analyze decisions in football games and tracking chemical usage...
View ArticleEvaluating Computer Vision Models
Meta has created a dataset to improve fairness in computer vision models. The dataset contains 32,000 images featuring 50,000 people as well as annotations describing their perceived demographic...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers August 26, 2023 to September 1, 2023 and includes articles on using an AI system to moderate video game chats and launching an AI-powered recipe app....
View ArticleVisualizing Nitrogen Dioxide Air Pollution
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration has released the first map from its Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution space instrument. It shows hourly concentrations of nitrogen...
View ArticleVisualizing Pizzeria Prevalence in the United States
The Washington Post has created a series of visualizations tracking pizza preferences and pizzeria prevalence in the United States. One visualization shows the density of independent and small-chain...
View ArticleImproving Robotic Movements
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, Google, and Carnegie Mellon University have created a dataset to improve robotic learnings. The dataset contains over 60,000...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers September 2, 2023 to September 8, 2023 and includes articles on landing autonomous drones on navy ships and using a robot to attend class remotely....
View ArticleThe FTC Should Not Treat OpenAI Like Public Enemy No. 1
The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) recent investigation into OpenAI, prompted by a minor data breach and a defamation lawsuit, seems driven by anti-tech ideology rather than a measured understanding...
View ArticleVisualizing Cloud Heights in the United States
The Washington Post has created a series of visualizations illustrating differences in cloud heights across the United States. One visualization shows the average cloud base height during the spring,...
View ArticleEvaluating Language Models
Meta and U.S.-based AI companies Abridge AI and Reka AI have created a dataset to improve multilingual language models. The dataset contains 900 multiple choice questions designed to test reading...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers September 9, 2023 to September 15, 2023 and includes articles on delivering food via autonomous drones and using an AI system to create a new soda...
View ArticleVisualizing the Impact of Climate Change on Crops
The Wall Street Journal has created a series of visualizations displaying the effects of climate change on agriculture in the United States. One visualization shows the weekly percentage of crops...
View ArticleImproving Language Translation Models
Google has created a multilingual dataset to improve language translation models. It contains 4 billion documents with 100 billion sentences in 419 languages. The dataset improves upon past...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers September 16, 2023 to September 22, 2023 and includes articles on using an AI system to decipher chickens’ emotions and tracking businesses engaging...
View ArticleVisualizing Air Conditioning Demand
The Washington Post has created a series of visualizations tracking the use of air conditioners in the United States. One visualization displays the number of summer days with heat indexes above 65...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers September 23, 2023 to September 29, 2023 and includes articles on testing robotaxis and launching a robot that can build burrito bowls. 1. Regaining...
View ArticleLinking Census Records
Researchers at the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) have created a database linking people recorded in the U.S. censuses from 1850 to 1940. Record linking is the process of combining a...
View Article5 Q’s for Dave Woollard, SVP of Technology Strategy and Innovation for...
The Center for Data Innovation spoke with Dave Woollard, Senior Vice President of Technology Strategy and Innovation at Standard AI, a company based in San Francisco that specializes in autonomous...
View ArticleVisualizing Congressional Tenures
The Washington Post has created a series of visualizations tracking the effects of a proposed constitutional amendment to limit members of Congress to three terms. One visualization shows the number of...
View ArticleTraining Robots
DeepMind has partnered with 33 research laboratories to create the most comprehensive robotics dataset to date. The dataset contains over one million robot trajectories from 22 robots, including robot...
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