Tracking Crime Trends in Real-Time
AH Datalytics, a Louisiana-based analytics company, has launched a dataset that samples real-time crime data that hundreds of law enforcement agencies across the United States report regularly. Users...
View ArticleWhy Watermarking Text Fails to Stop Misinformation and Plagiarism
The rise of generative AI, with tools like ChatGPT, has revolutionized how people create text. These tools can produce content that closely resembles human writing, allowing users to quickly draft...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers September 14, 2024 to September 20, 2024, and includes articles on Indiana’s new state government chatbot and how a Canadian hospital uses AI to save...
View ArticlePolicy Highlights, Week of September 16, 2024
Senate Committee Passes Bipartisan Bill on Oversight of Government Digital Services The U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs has passed the Government Service Delivery...
View ArticleVisualizing Migrations Patterns in the United States
Bloomberg News has created a visualization depicting the correlation between the political leanings of counties by state and their respective share of refugees and asylum seekers who settled there...
View ArticleMapping Grocery Store Ownership in the United States
The Washington Post has created an interactive map visualizing which chains own the most grocery stores, shown in various colors, in different parts of the United States using data on store locations...
View ArticleTesting AI Performance in Multiple Languages
OpenAI has released a new multilingual dataset to help AI developers evaluate how well large language models (LLMs) perform in 14 languages, including Arabic, French, German, Spanish, and Simplified...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers September 21, 2024 to September 27, 2024, and includes articles on using a new supercomputer for more accurate weather forecasts and South Korea’s...
View ArticlePolicy Highlights, Week of September 23, 2024
U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Passes AI Safety Bill The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology has passed the AI Incident Reporting and...
View ArticleCreating Digital Twins
Reality Labs, a research unit at Meta that produces virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) hardware and software, has published a dataset that contains 3D digital representations of roughly...
View ArticleTracking Interest in Political Topics Across the United States
Germany-based data visualization designer Moritz Stefaner has created a visualization depicting how Google searches for political topics like immigration, tax policy, and inflation have changed in U.S....
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers September 28, 2024 to October 4, 2024, and includes articles on using quantum machine learning algorithms to detect lung cancer and using generative...
View ArticlePolicy Highlights, Week of September 30, 2024
California Governor Vetoes AI Safety Bill California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed the AI Accountability and Safety Act (SB 1047), which sought to ensure large-scale AI systems are safe by applying...
View ArticleComparing Per Capita Income Growth in Wealthiest Countries
Visual Capitalist has created a visualization that shows how the gross domestic product (GDP) per capita of the wealthiest countries in 2024 has changed compared to 2014, using the most recent economic...
View ArticleIdentifying Hand Movements
Researchers at Sapienza University in Rome, Italy, and the Polytechnic University in Madrid, Spain have created a dataset to improve how AI systems that rely on computer vision recognize and capture...
View ArticlePolicy Highlights, Week of October 7, 2024
U.S. Representatives Introduce Bill to Fund Prizes for AI Research U.S. House of Representatives AI Task Force chair Jay Obernolte (R-CA) and co-chair Ted Lieu (D-CA) introduced the bipartisan AI Grand...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers October 5, 2024 to October 11, 2024, and includes articles on a deep learning tool to discover new viruses and a tool measuring artists’ level of...
View ArticleVisualizing Partisan Food Preferences in Election Campaigns
The Washington Post has created a series of visualizations showing the restaurant preferences of Democratic and Republican campaigns by analyzing campaign finance receipts between January 2023 and...
View ArticleTraining Activity Recognition Models
Researchers at Oxford University have created a new dataset that contains roughly 3,900 hours of data on human activity that researchers collected through wrist-worn accelerometers, wearable cameras,...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers October 12, 2024 to October 18, 2024, and includes articles on Mistral’s new AI models for phones and laptops and how an algorithm can help...
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