Documenting Highway-Rail Crossing Accidents
The U.S. Department of Transportation has published a dataset that lists roughly 246,000 incidents at highway-railroad crossings in the United States using federal data since 1975. For each incident,...
View ArticlePolicy Highlights, Week of July 8, 2024
U.S. Senators Introduce Bipartisan AI Bill to Combat Deepfakes and Protect Journalists Senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) have introduced the Content...
View ArticlePolicy Highlights, Week of July 15, 2024
U.S. Department of Energy Releases Roadmap to Harness AI The U.S. Department of Energy has released its roadmap for the Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence for Science, Security and Technology (FASST)...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers August 10, 2024 to August 16, 2024, and includes articles on fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) and exploring their unexpected behavior and...
View ArticleVisualizing Single-Cell Data
Researchers at the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research and the Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt in Germany have developed sCIRCLE, a tool that enables...
View ArticleExploring Mars
China’s Tianwen-1 mission, the country’s first Mars exploration project, has released the data it collected to create the most detailed global color image map of Mars. This dataset, developed by...
View ArticlePolicy Highlight, Week of August 5, 2024
Members of U.S. Congress Urge California Governor to Veto State AI Bill A group of Democratic U.S. Representatives has taken the unusual step of urging California Governor Gavin Newsom to veto the AI...
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This week’s list of top data news highlights covers August 17, 2024 to August 23, 2024, and includes articles on digital memory boxes for children in foster care and giving robots a better sense of...
View ArticleVisualizing How Much Debris Covers the Gaza Strip
Bloomberg has created an interactive map that visualizes the density and distribution of the 42 million tonnes of debris that have covered the Gaza Strip since the start of the war in 2023 using novel...
View ArticleExamining Grantmaking in the United Kingdom
The U.K. Grantmaking Initiative, a coalition of several U.K.-based nonprofits, has created a new dataset centralizing information on roughly 12,000 trusts, foundations, charities, and other grantmakers...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers August 24, 2024 to August 30, 2024, and includes articles on Bahrain’s plans for data-driven urban planning and a new AI platform that automates...
View ArticlePolicy Highlights, Week of August 26, 2024
U.S. AI Safety Institute Signs Agreements for Early Model Access With Anthropic and OpenAI The U.S. AI Safety Institute (AISI) has signed agreements with Anthropic and OpenAI, that will give the agency...
View ArticleVisualizing Poverty in the Pacific Region
An interactive visualization uses blooming plants to depict the relationship between poverty and demographic differences in three Pacific island countries: the Marshall Islands, Vanuatu, and Kiribati....
View ArticleTracking Boating Accidents in the United States
The Data Liberation Project (DLP), an initiative that seeks to provide public access to government datasets, has published a dataset containing records on boating accidents in the United States between...
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This week’s list of top data news highlights covers August 31, 2024 to September 6, 2024, and includes articles on using AI to diagnose cancer and a new robot to assist in lunar exploration missions....
View ArticlePolicy Highlights, Week of September 2, 2024
The US, UK, and EU Sign International Treaty on Human-Rights Approach to AI Regulation The United States, the UK, and the EU have signed the Council of Europe’s Framework Convention on AI—a legally...
View ArticleVisualizing the Irreversible Impacts of Climate Change
The New York Times has created maps visualizing the world’s climate tipping points—areas where global warming has an irreversibly negative impact on natural ecosystems. Using the latest data on these...
View ArticleRestoring and Preserving Endangered Murals
A group of researchers from Chinese and Canadian universities has created a dataset containing 5,000 high-resolution images of Dunhuang murals—endangered Buddhist art inside hundreds of ancient caves...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers September 7, 2024 to September 13, 2024, and includes articles on using machine learning to improve a robot’s touch recognition and using data from...
View ArticlePolicy Highlights, Week of September 9, 2024
U.S. House Science and Technology Committee Passes Nine Bipartisan AI Bills The U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology has passed nine bipartisan bills to ensure U.S. leadership in AI...
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