10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers November 23, 2024 to November 29, 2024, and includes articles on using machine learning to estimate cybersecurity risks and the world’s first fully...
View ArticleVisualizing the Differences Between Sitting and Standing Jobs
The Pudding has created an interactive visualization of which occupations involve more standing or more sitting using data from the occupational requirements survey of the U.S. Bureau of Labor...
View ArticleDetecting Neurodegenerative Diseases in Slovak Speakers
A group of researchers from Slovakia has created a dataset containing information on various speech and language tasks, such as sustained vowel phonation and naming and picture description, that...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers November 30, 2024 to December 6, 2024, and includes articles on using AI for faster and more accurate weather forecasting and a new AI tool to...
View ArticlePolicy Highlights, Week of December 2, 2024
U.S. Senators Introduce Bipartisan National Quantum Initiative Reauthorization Act U.S. Senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Tedd Young (R-IN), Dick Durbin (D-IL), and Steve Daines (D-MT) have introduced...
View ArticleMapping Climate-Driven Home Insurance Price Increases
The Guardian has created a map of the United States visualizing how home insurance premiums have increased between 2020 and 2023 due to rising climate risks, analyzing data from a recent study on...
View ArticleDeveloping Location-Based Digital Products and Services
Foursquare, a New York-based geospatial software company, has published an open-source dataset that includes roughly 100 million places of interest around the world, including restaurants, shopping...
View ArticlePolicy Highlights, Week of December 9, 2024
Draft Defense Spending Bill Seeks to Leverage AI for Military Purposes Senator John Reed (D-RI) has introduced the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2025, the annual bill that...
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This week’s list of top data news highlights covers December 7, 2024 to December 13, 2024, and includes articles on using virtual reality to recruit fishers and an AI-powered robotic rat to study the...
View ArticleDocumenting Food Safety Recalls
New York-based data journalist Adrian Nesta has created a dataset that contains up-to-date information on food safety recalls that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Department of...
View ArticleVisualizing Nuances in Chinese Names
A project exploring the complexity of Chinese names called Not My Name has published an interactive visualization that allows users to explore how the system of latinizing Chinese names, Pinyin, can...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers December 14, 2024 to December 20, 2024, and includes articles on the digital twin of the Yangtze River in China and an AI model that can distinguish...
View ArticleVisualizing Disproportionate Drug Overdose Deaths in Black Men
The New York Times has created an interactive visualization showing how Black men born in the United States between 1951 and 1970, who came of age at a time of wide racial economic disparities, are...
View ArticleExamining Italian Government Procurement
Researchers at the University of Turin in Italy have created a dataset that contains information on Italy’s government procurement contracts—roughly 12 percent of the country’s GDP—between 2016 and...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers December 21, 2024 to January 3, 2025, and includes articles on an augmented reality training program for fighter jet pilots and using AI to enhance...
View ArticlePolicy Highlights, Weeks of December 23, 2024 and December 30, 2024
Senators Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Minimize National Security Risks from Frontier AI U.S. Senators Angus King (I-ME), Mitt Romney (R-UT), Jack Reed (D-RI), Jerry Moran (R-KS), and Maggie Hassan...
View ArticleStudying the Mosquito Population in Mainland China
Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Shanghai Institute of Technology have created a dataset with information on the varieties and population densities of mosquitoes across different...
View Article10 Bits: The Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers January 4, 2025 to January 10, 2025, and includes articles on using AI to streamline litigation preparation and the U.S. Navy’s new data dashboard to...
View ArticleVisualizing Home Insurance Nonrenewal Rates in the United States
The New York Times has created a map visualizing the rates at which home insurance companies have refused to renew policies in each U.S. county, using the most recent data from the U.S. Senate Budget...
View ArticleVisualizing Proportional Representation in the United States
The New York Times has created a visualization exploring how the U.S. Congress might look under a proportional representation system instead of the current winner-take-all system. Using a nationally...
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