Compiling Agricultural Experiments Data
Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have created a dataset that contains data on agricultural productivity and farming techniques from 1888 to 2021. The researchers collected...
View ArticleExamining College Athletes’ Compensation
The Washington Post has created a series of interactive visualizations depicting payouts to college athletes for use of their name, image, and likeness (NIL) from July 2021 to July 2024, using analysis...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers October 19, 2024 to October 25, 2024, and includes articles on a machine learning model to assess worker fatigue in factories and a new app to train...
View ArticlePolicy Highlights, Week of October 21, 2024
The White House Issues Memo on Harnessing AI for U.S. National Security President Joe Biden has issued a memorandum to govern the use of AI for national security purposes. The memo seeks to establish...
View ArticleUnderstanding Societal Progress
Researchers at the Leiden University in the Netherlands have compiled a dataset that includes roughly one million data points in 250 metrics that measure social and economic progress beyond traditional...
View ArticleVisualizing the World’s Least Peaceful Countries
The Visual Capitalist has created a visualization depicting how the world’s least peaceful countries—most of which are active conflict zones—have ranked between 2020 and 2024 using the global peace...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers October 26, 2024 to November 1, 2024, and includes articles on using AI to improve math tutoring and developing a robot to harvest vineyards more...
View ArticleExamining Grassland Grazing Intensity in Mainland China
Chinese researchers have created a dataset that contains long-term data on how intense grassland grazing has been in seven provinces in China since 1980. Grassland grazing, the farming practice of...
View ArticleVisualizing How Domestic Migration Impacts Political Polarization in America
The New York Times has created an interactive visualization showing how domestic migration within the United States contributes to political polarization. The newspaper analyzed public voter...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers November 2, 2024 to November 8, 2024, and includes articles on using AI to recap TV shows and using satellite data to protect coastal ecosystems. 1....
View ArticlePolicy Highlights, Week of November 4, 2025
U.K. Technology Secretary Pledges Legislation to Limit AI Risks Next Year The U.K. Secretary of State for Science, Technology and Innovation pledged at the Financial Times’ Future of AI summit that the...
View ArticleEnabling Biometric Recognition
Researchers at the Dresden University of Technology in Germany have created a dataset that contains information on human body motions—an important source of data to assess individual health status and...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers November 9, 2024 to November 15, 2024, and includes articles on the digital replica of Saint Peter’s Basilica and NASA’s new AI chatbot. 1....
View ArticleVisualizing the Evolution of Love Songs
The Pudding’s interactive visualization reveals how love songs in popular culture have evolved over time, analyzing 5,100 Billboard Top 10 hits from 1958 to 2023. Traditional themes like serenades...
View ArticleVisualizing Use of Emojis on Bluesky
U.S.-based software engineer Jared Short has created an interactive visualization showing the diversity and frequency of emojis used in real-time on social media platform Bluesky. Each raindrop...
View ArticleAdvancing Precision Medicine Techniques
Researchers at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York have published a dataset that contains CT scan images of 32 lung cancer patients, along with lesion contours that radiologists...
View ArticlePolicy Highlights, Week of November 18, 2024
U.S. Representatives Introduce Bill Targeting Various Types of Frauds Using AI U.S. House Representatives Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Kevin Kiley (R-CA) have introduced a bill that increases the maximum sum of...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers November 16, 2024 to November 22, 2024, and includes articles on using AI to discover deposits of valuable metals and a new drone that helps preserve...
View ArticleVisualizing Energy Consumption in America
Visual Capitalist has created a visualization showing how the share of each energy source (oil, natural gas, renewables, coal, and nuclear) is distributed across end-use sectors (transport, industrial,...
View ArticleEnhancing Energy Efficiency on University Campuses
Researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have published a dataset containing information on energy consumption that roughly 1,400 smart meters across 20 university buildings...
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