Visualizing Patterns in Complex Data
Dartmouth College researchers have published a free Python software package called HyperTools that allows users to turn complex data into 3D shapes or animations. The tool allows users to visualize...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers May 5-11, 2018, and includes articles about a new landslide database and an AI assistant that can have realistic conversations over the phone. 1....
View ArticleVisualizing Links Between Species
Spanish researchers from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, the Technology and Digital Art University Center, and Francisco de Vitoria University have published an open source software tool called...
View ArticleTracking Wind Energy in the United States
The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has published a dataset containing minute by minute data on the barometric pressure, wind speed and direction, relative...
View ArticleDeveloping AI to Answer Grade-School Science Questions
Researchers at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence—a research organization started by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen—have released a dataset called the AI2 Reasoning Challenge to encourage...
View ArticleVisualizing Income Mobility Across Racial and Gender Groups
The New York Times has published a series of animated charts illustrating income mobility across racial and gender groups. Last week, the newspaper created visualizations demonstrating that Black males...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers March 24– 30, 2018, and includes articles about how an AI system discovered 6,000 new viruses and a helmet that can monitor brain activity while the...
View ArticleDeveloping Computer Vision to Detect Natural Disasters
Defense Innovation Unit Experimental—a U.S. Department of Defense organization that helps commercial groups develop technologies useful to the military—and the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence...
View ArticleVisualizing Patterns in Complex Data
Dartmouth College researchers have published a free Python software package called HyperTools that allows users to turn complex data into 3D shapes or animations. The tool allows users to visualize...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers May 5-11, 2018, and includes articles about a new landslide database and an AI assistant that can have realistic conversations over the phone. 1....
View ArticleVisualizing Links Between Species
Spanish researchers from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, the Technology and Digital Art University Center, and Francisco de Vitoria University have published an open source software tool called...
View ArticleTracking Wind Energy in the United States
The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has published a dataset containing minute by minute data on the barometric pressure, wind speed and direction, relative...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers May 12-18, 2018, and includes articles about networked sensors that monitor cows and an AI system that could free people from boring conference calls. 1....
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers May 18-25, 2018, and includes articles about researchers using AI to build microchips on the atomic scale and a project to use brain scanning to identify...
View ArticleCataloging the Global Energy Infrastructure to Prevent Oil and Gas Leaks
The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has published a dataset identifying 4.8 million structures, such as wells and pipelines, that are part of the oil and gas...
View ArticleVisualizing the Patterns of Natural Disasters in the United States
The New York Times has created several data visualizations that illustrate a pattern of natural disasters occurring in the same locations in the United States. The visualizations use data from the U.S....
View ArticleUsing Geospatial Data to Create Maps
Uber has released an open source tool called Kepler.gl that allows users to create visualizations from geolocation datasets. The tool can visualize millions of data points, and users can explore the...
View ArticleTraining Algorithms to Read X-Rays
The Stanford Machine Learning Group, a group of Stanford University researchers, has published MURA, a dataset of musculoskeletal radiographs, also known as x-rays, to foster the development of...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers May 26 – June 1, 2018, and includes articles about an AI system that can recognize a person’s gait and a robot that can improvise to overcome obstacles....
View ArticleMapping the World’s Coal Capacity
Climate news publication Carbon Brief has created several data visualizations mapping the location and capacity of the world’s coal power plants. An interactive timeline map allows users to scroll from...
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