Bringing Equity in Health Outcomes
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently published an analysis of the genomes and associated health data from nearly 250,000 participants in its “All of Us” study. The dataset’s diversity...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers February 17, 2024 to February 23, 2024 and includes articles on using virtual reality to help astronauts exercise and improving forest fire detection...
View ArticleFlorida’s E-commerce Legislation Would Conflict With the INFORM Act
A newly introduced bill in the Florida Senate would require online marketplaces, such as Amazon and eBay, to verify and disclose the location of third-party sellers. However, online marketplaces...
View ArticleThe New York Times’ Copyright Lawsuit Against OpenAI Threatens the Future of...
The New York Times recently 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...
View ArticleVisualizing Winter Temperature Changes
The Washington Post has published a visualization showing the winter temperature changes from 1980 until 2024. It shows winters are getting warmer in most of the contiguous United States, with 86...
View ArticleImproving EV Charging
Researchers at Chosun University and the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology have shared a dataset containing information from 732,000 charging sessions of electric vehicles. It covers 2,200 EV...
View ArticleVisualizing the 2024 Solar Eclipse across the United States
Bloomberg has published a visualization illustrating how the upcoming total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, will appear from different parts of North America. According to the visualization, nearly all...
View ArticleCapturing India’s Linguistic Diversity
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, have created IndicVoices, a dataset of natural and spontaneous speech that captures the cultural, linguistic, and demographic diversity...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers March 2, 2024 to March 8, 2024 and includes articles on using virtual reality to help students learn languages and using AI to create scents that are...
View ArticleTracking 200 Years of U.S. Settlement
A team of researchers from the University of Colorado, Boulder has created a new dataset called the Historical Settlement Data Compilation for the United States. This dataset combines information from...
View ArticleVisualizing the Global Distribution of Ultra High Net Worth Individuals
Visual Capitalist has published a world map illustrating the distribution of ultra high net worth individuals (UHNWIs) across the globe as of the end of 2023, with UHNWIs categorized as individuals...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers March 9, 2024 to March 15, 2024 and includes articles on using AI for automating software development and using virtual reality to help people with...
View ArticleVisualizing the Composition of U.S. Currency in Circulation
Visual Capitalist has created a visualization that illustrates the composition of U.S. currency in circulation globally as of 2022. The data, sourced from the latest Federal Reserve figures, uses...
View ArticleImproving Autonomous Vehicle Capabilities
Researchers at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom have released a dataset called the Synthetic Digital City Dataset, comprising over 900,000 synthetically generated, high-resolution images...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers March 16, 2024 to March 22, 2024 and includes articles on using AI to predict floods and setting up dynamic speed limits to increase road safety. 1....
View ArticleVisualizing Asia’s Population Density Patterns
Visual Capitalist has created a map that illustrates Asia’s population density patterns. The map uses spikes to denote higher population density, with taller spikes representing more densely populated...
View ArticleEnhancing Diversity in Dermatology Datasets
Researchers from Google have created the Skin Condition Image Network (SCIN), an open-access dataset that aims to increase the diversity of dermatology images available for public use. The dataset...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers March 23, 2024 to March 29, 2024 and includes articles on using AI to identify birds and using drones to fight forest fires. 1. Optimizing Crop Yield...
View ArticleTracking State Lawmakers
Researchers from Duke University and Loyola University, Chicago have released a dataset that contains biographical information about U.S. state lawmakers who held office in 2023 and 2024. The dataset...
View ArticleVisualizing Happiness in the World
Gallup, an American multinational analytics organization, released a World Happiness Report that maps the state of happiness globally, turning the responses of approximately 1,000 respondents into a...
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