10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers September 30, 2023 to October 6, 2023 and includes articles on shipping goods with autonomous trucks and using a generative AI system to optimize...
View ArticleVisualizing Life Expectancies
The Washington Post has created a series of interactive data visualizations comparing life expectancies in the United States to life expectancies in other wealthy countries. One visualization prompts...
View ArticleTraining AI Assistants
Microsoft has created a dataset to improve AI assistants. It contains 169 hours of footage of instructors guiding participants through tasks, as well as information on participants’ movements, audio,...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers October 7, 2023 to October 13, 2023 and includes articles on using an AI system to optimize stoplight timing and expanding autonomous vehicle...
View ArticleVisualizing Jump Scares in Movies
The Washington Post has created a series of visualizations tracking the number of jump scares in movies. One visualization compares the number of jump scares per minute in movies with the number in...
View ArticleTraining Robotic Assistants
Meta has created a dataset to improve AI systems that direct robotic assistants. The dataset contains 211 synthetic 3D scenes of home interiors containing over 18,000 objects across over 400...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers October 14, 2023 to October 20, 2023 and includes articles on using drones to deliver medications and displaying the Parthenon in augmented reality....
View ArticleCombating Organized Retail Crime Will Require More Than Targeting High-value...
Organized retail crime (ORC)—when groups or large networks work together to steal large quantities of merchandise—has become a significant problem in the United States. U.S. retailers had $68.9 billion...
View ArticleVisualizing Romance Novel Covers
The Pudding, an online publication specializing in visual essays, has developed a series of data visualizations comparing romance novel covers. One such visualization assesses the raunchiness, art...
View ArticleDetecting Malware
Researchers at the University of Maryland Baltimore County and Booz Allen Hamilton, a U.S.-based consulting firm, have created a dataset to improve malware classification. It includes over four million...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers October 21, 2023 to October 27, 2023 and includes articles on using an AI system to produce new Beatles music and launching a dashboard to track data...
View ArticleJumping on the Bletchley Declaration’s Existential AI Risk Bandwagon Hurts...
The UK’s AI Safety Summit brought together dozens of leaders in governments, industry, and civil society to consider how to best manage risks from recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI)....
View Article5 Q’s for Gerry McNicol, Founder of Distil.ai
The Center for Data Innovation spoke to Gerry McNicol, founder of Distil.ai, a data management platform based in London. McNicol discusses how first-party customer data and external data sources, like...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers October 28, 2023 to November 3, 2023 and includes articles on using autonomous drones to deliver cargo and launching a data dashboard to track arts...
View ArticleCapturing Carbon Dioxide
Researchers at Meta and the Georgia Institute of Technology have created a dataset to support the development of direct air capture technology, which captures carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The...
View ArticleVisualizing Space Junk
The Washington Post has created a series of visualizations illustrating the location and prevalence of space junk, which are discarded satellites, rocket parts, and debris. One visualization shows the...
View ArticleVisualizing Tomato Production in Europe
Erwan Rivault, a data visualization designer in the United Kingdom, has created a data visualization tracking tomato production in Europe. The visualization uses the sizes of tomatoes to represent...
View ArticleImproving Large Language Models
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Harvard University have created a dataset of prompt injection attacks, which are third party attempts to...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers November 4, 2023 to November 10, 2023 and includes articles on viewing the International Space Station in augmented reality and using an AI system to...
View ArticleVisualizing Pigeon Versus Internet Speeds
The Washington Post has created a series of visualizations illustrating Internet speeds in the United States. One visualization compares Internet speeds with carrier pigeon speeds for sending...
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