10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers March 30, 2024 to April 5, 2024 and includes articles on detecting dementia using mobile data and using algorithms to renourish food deserts. 1....
View ArticleMapping Airbnb Occupancy Along the Eclipse Path
AirDNA, a Denver-based company that analyzes short-term rental data, produced a map of Airbnb occupancy data along the path of the total solar eclipse on April 9, 2024 in the United States. The...
View ArticleTracking Plague Deaths in Medieval London
Researchers at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University have published a dataset containing roughly 8,000 government records regarding plague mortality rates in...
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This week’s list of top data news highlights covers April 6, 2024 to April 12, 2024 and includes articles on creating a building’s digital twin and automating grading in schools. 1. Creating Digital...
View ArticleMapping American Exports Per State
U.S. small business lending firm OnDeck Capital has mapped the global reach of American exports using 2022 data from the U.S. International Trade Administration (ITA). The map highlights the biggest...
View ArticleTracking Opioid Settlement Payouts
National health news outlet KFF Health News has published a dataset showing how much state and local governments are receiving in settlements from companies that made, sold, or distributed prescription...
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This week’s list of top data news highlights covers April 13, 2024 to April 19, 2024 and includes articles on revamping disaster response and tracking carbon emissions in buildings. 1. Creating Custom...
View ArticleMapping Access to Nature
The Washington Post used data from an Oregon-based technology startup called NatureQuant to map how accessible nature is in neighborhoods across the United States. One visualization shows the variance...
View ArticleUnderstanding Border Control
Political scientists from various U.S. universities have compiled a dataset called “border crossings of the world” to help researchers understand how different countries use physical infrastructure to...
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This week’s list of top data news highlights covers April 20, 2024 to April 26, 2024 and includes articles on enhancing school safety and creating early warning systems for tsunamis in the Pacific. 1....
View ArticleMapping Pro-Palestine Student Protests in America
Bloomberg used data from its recent news reports to map student protest hotspots that have started nationwide in support of the Palestinian side in the Gaza war. According to the visualization,...
View ArticleForecasting Tornadoes in the Northern Hemisphere
The Lincoln Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has released a new dataset called TorNet that contains radar returns from thousands of tornadoes that have hit the United...
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This week’s list of top data news highlights covers April 27, 2024 to May 3, 2024 and includes articles on the world’s first “AI diplomat” and using a digital twin of an airport to reduce carbon...
View ArticleMonitoring Press Freedom Around the World
Reporters Without Borders (RSF), a Paris-based nonprofit, has published its annual world press freedom index. Each year, the organization collects a tally of abuses against journalists in connection...
View ArticleTranscribing YouTube Videos for LLM Training
Pleias, a French startup that builds energy-efficient large language models (LLMs) for information-sensitive industries, has released a dataset called YouTube-Commons that contains over two million...
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This week’s list of top data news highlights covers May 4, 2024 to May 10, 2024 and includes articles on analyzing secret intelligence and using generative AI to recreate the voice of a famous country...
View ArticleExamining the Evolution of Bridge Construction in the United States
Esri, a U.S.-based geographic information system (GIS) software company, has used data from federal agencies and the American Society of Civil Engineers to create an interactive visualization of...
View ArticleUnderstanding Brain Structure
Harvard University researchers have collaborated with Google Research scientists to release the largest-ever dataset of neural connections in human brain tissue. Using electron microscopy, a technique...
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This week’s list of top data news highlights covers May 11, 2024 to May 17, 2024 and includes articles on the first AI robot delivering a commencement speech and using digital platforms to ensure...
View ArticleComparing Happiness Across Ages
Visual Capitalist has created a visualization that ranks countries by the size of the gap between how happy older adults (defined as ages 60 and above) report to be compared to youth (defined as ages...
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