Tracking Solar Energy Facilities
Researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have created a dataset of large-scale solar energy facilities in the United States....
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This week’s list of top data news highlights covers November 11, 2023 to November 17, 2023 and includes articles on trying on high fashion in augmented reality and training AI systems to classify bird...
View ArticlePolicymakers Should Not Slow Down Fast Deliveries
The introduction of Amazon Prime and two-day shipping in 2005 changed the fulfillment and e-commerce industry. Since then, Amazon has continued pushing advancements in delivery timelines and logistics....
View ArticleSHOP SAFE Act Could More Effectively Address Counterfeiting Online
The new Stopping Harmful Offers on Platforms by Screening Against Fakes in E-Commerce (SHOP SAFE) Act, introduced in late September by U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), will...
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 Commute Changes in the United States
The New York Times has created a series of visualizations demonstrating how the COVID-19 pandemic affected Americans’ work commutes. One visualization shows the change in average driving speeds in 20...
View ArticleTraining Household Robots
Researchers at New York University and Meta have created a dataset to train AI systems to direct generalist household robots. The dataset contains 13 hours of footage of people using a gripper stick to...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers November 25, 2023 to December 1, 2023 and includes articles on using an autonomous excavator to build walls and tracking data on solar-generated...
View ArticleSHOP SAFE Act Could More Effectively Address Counterfeiting Online
The new Stopping Harmful Offers on Platforms by Screening Against Fakes in E-Commerce (SHOP SAFE) Act, introduced in late September by U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), will...
View ArticleVisualizing “Silent Night” Covers
The Washington Post has created a visualization tracking the number of “Silent Night” covers from 1900 to 2023. Each cover appears as a box, with blue boxes indicating a cover in English, yellow boxes...
View ArticleEvaluating Language Models
Anthropic, a U.S.-based AI company, has created a dataset to evaluate language models that are used in high-impact decisions, such as determining financing or housing eligibility. The dataset contains...
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This week’s list of top data news highlights covers December 2, 2023 to December 8, 2023 and includes articles on using an AI system to track chemicals used to produce fentanyl and tracking data on...
View ArticleVisualizing Global Precipitation
Visual Capitalist, an online publisher of data visualizations, has published a visualization tracking precipitation levels around the world. It shows regions that receive more than 39 inches of rain...
View ArticleLogic, Not Emotions, Should Guide Autonomous Vehicle Deployment
On October 2, 2023 a driver in San Francisco hit a jaywalking pedestrian, knocking that person directly in front of a driverless taxi, which then dragged her for 20 feet. While it’s tempting to draw...
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This week’s list of top data news highlights covers December 9, 2023 to December 15, 2023 and includes articles on using an AI system to create a playlist and creating virtual reality goggles for lab...
View ArticleImproving Diversity in AR/VR
Google and the University of Central Florida have created a dataset of virtual avatars. It includes 210 avatars of seven different races and ethnicities in casual, business, medical, military, and...
View ArticleLearning Complex Tasks
Researchers at Meta and 15 universities have created a dataset to train AI systems to complete complex tasks. It includes over 1,400 hours of footage of experts completing tasks, such as cooking,...
View ArticleVisualizing Consumer Price Searches
Axios, an online news publication, has created a series of visualizations tracking the prices of eggs in the United States. One visualization uses Google Trends data from 2023 to show the most searched...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers December 30, 2023 to January 5, 2024 and includes articles on training an AI system to authenticate Renaissance paintings and opening an autonomous...
View ArticleVisualizing the Prevalence of Mexican Restaurants
Axios, an online news publication, has created a visualization tracking the prevalence of Mexican restaurants in the United States. It shows U.S. counties with Mexican restaurants as shades of green,...
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