Understanding Laughter
Researchers at Pohang University of Science and Technology, Seoul National University, and Yonsei University in South Korea have created a dataset of video clips of laughter. It contains nearly 900...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers January 6, 2024 to January 12, 2024 and includes articles on launching AI-powered vehicle assistants and teaching healthcare lessons through virtual...
View ArticleThe New York Times’ Copyright Lawsuit Against OpenAI Threatens the Future of...
The New York Times has sued Microsoft and OpenAI, claiming that their AI services, such as ChatGPT and Copilot, have unlawfully utilized the New York Times’ content and demanding they dismantle all...
View ArticleVisualizing Increases in Average Temperatures
The Washington Post has created a visualization comparing global temperatures in 2023 with average temperatures from 1880 to 1899. It shows areas that experienced an increase in temperature as shades...
View ArticleTraining Multimodal AI Systems
An independent team of researchers has created a dataset of wordplay puzzles that require users to add or subtract letters from words to identify a phrase. It contains 333 puzzles from 13 categories,...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers January 13, 2024 to January 19, 2024 and includes articles on delivering orders via drones and using an AI-powered camera to monitor cows. 1....
View ArticleThe FTC is Meddling in AI Creativity in Its Comments to the Copyright Office
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently submitted comments to the U.S. Copyright Office arguing that training artificial intelligence (AI) systems on copyrighted materials or using AI to produce...
View ArticleVisualizing Trading Partners of MENA Countries
Visual Capitalist, an online publisher that creates data visualizations, has published a graphic showing the top trading partners of countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region based on...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Relationship between South American Languages
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany have created a dataset of 501 words to help test if language families in Lowland South America are related, both in...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers January 20, 2024 to January 26, 2024 and includes articles on building robot dinosaurs and expanding autonomous vehicle services. 1. Taking...
View ArticleTracking Medicaid Offices
Researchers at Boston University have created a dataset of all public-facing Medicaid offices in the United States. It contains over 3,000 offices and lists each office’s name, location, and latitude...
View ArticleVisualizing Bird Population Changes
The Washington Post has created a series of visualizations tracking changes in the sizes of bird populations in the United States. It shows changes in the average number of sightings of different birds...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers January 27, 2024 to February 2, 2024 and includes articles on shopping for eyeglasses online and tracking data on the reliability of public...
View ArticleVisualizing the Cost of a Big Mac
Food research website Pantry & Larder has published a graphic showing the price of a Big Mac at every McDonald’s location in the United States, as of 2023. The cheapest Big Mac was $3.49 in...
View ArticleUnderstanding Language Prompts in Arabic
A team of researchers in Saudi Arabia has compiled and released a dataset to teach large language models to better understand and follow instructions in Arabic. The Culturally Relevant Instruction...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers February 3, 2024 to February 9, 2024 and includes articles on identifying dogs using neural networks to assess the personalities of dogs and...
View ArticleTracking Global Land and Ocean Temperature
The National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) has introduced a new version of the global surface temperature NOAAGlobalTemp dataset. This update incorporates information from an artificial...
View ArticleVisualizing Hearing Loss
The Washington Post published visualizations highlighting hearing loss in Americans. The data also indicates a greater prevalence of hearing loss in rural communities and areas with higher levels of...
View Article10 BITS: THE DATA NEWS HOTLIST
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers February 10, 2024, to February 16, 2024, and includes articles on using virtual reality to train surgeons and improving cybersecurity using AI....
View ArticleVisualizing Job Market Competition
Career.io has developed visualizations that illustrate the competition for high-paying jobs across various U.S. cities and states. The data reveals that Salt Lake City, Utah, is the most competitive...
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