Countries Can Learn from France’s Plan for Public Interest Data and AI
French President Emmanuel Macron recently endorsed a national AI strategy that includes plans for the French state to make public and private sector datasets available for reuse by others in...
View ArticleVisualizing a Decrease in Democracy
Bloomberg has created a series of visualizations showing that the world is becoming less democratic despite an increase in democratic elections. The charts use the liberal democracy index, created by...
View ArticleStudying How Cancer Develops
Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center has published the Repository for Molecular Brain Neoplasia Data (REMBRANDT) dataset, a collection of brain cancer data from 671 adults. The set includes...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers August 11-17, 2018, and includes articles about a an AI system that can manage a data center’s cooling and an effort to combat hate speech on Facebook in...
View ArticleUsing Twitter to Visualize Polarization
MIT Technology Review has created a set of visualizations that uses data about Twitter activity to illustrate the polarization of political discourse in the United States. The visualizations include...
View ArticleHelping Machines Be Conversational
Stanford University researchers have released the Conversational Question Answering (CoQA) dataset to help machines better gather and provide information in conversations with humans. The dataset...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers August 18-24, 2018, and includes articles about AI detecting mood disorders and an effort to find unique identifiers in human brains. 1. Using Machine...
View ArticleVisualizing Data in 3D
Microsoft has published a free data visualization tool called Charts 3D that allows PC and Surface Hub users to create 3D visualizations of multi-axis data without knowing how to code. After users...
View ArticleThe UK’s Gender Pay Gap Open Data Law Has Flaws, But Is A Positive Step Forward
Last year, the United Kingdom enacted a new regulation requiring companies to report information about their gender pay gap—a measure of the difference in average pay between men and women. The new...
View ArticleCreating Better Translations with AI
Amazon has released a dataset of nearly 400,000 English, Hebrew, Russian, Arabic, and Japanese names collected from Wikipedia articles to help AI perform more accurate translations between alphabets....
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers August 25 – September 3, 2018, and includes articles about a GPS system for space navigation and a startup developing an address system for the entire...
View ArticleVisualizing a Hotter Earth
The New York Times has created several data visualizations depicting how the world will continue to grow hotter over the next century. Charts and maps use historical data starting in 1960 to project...
View ArticleUsing Russian Tweets to Detect Fake News
Researchers from Russian and Danish universities have released a dataset of Russian tweets and comments posted on online news articles to help develop automated methods for identifying fake news. The...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers September 3-7, 2018, and includes articles about an AI system that can identify images of child abuse and a new search engine for open data. 1....
View ArticleVisualizing Bias in Machine Learning Models
Google has published a new tool called the What-If Tool that allows users to visualize possible bias in machine learning models without knowing how to code. With the What-If Tool, users can manually...
View ArticleTeaching AI to Talk
Researchers from the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence—a research organization started by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen—as well as Stanford University, the University of Washington, and the...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers September 8-14, 2018, and includes articles about an AI system that can identify images of child abuse and a new search engine for open data. 1. Teaching...
View ArticleMapping the Relationship Between Geography and Social Networks
The New York Times has created a series of maps illustrating how connected each county in the United States is to the rest of the nation based on Facebook connections. The maps color-code each county...
View ArticleMaking Machine Learning Models Inclusive
Google has announced the Inclusive Images Competition on Kaggle, challenging participants to develop image recognition systems that can perform well on datasets drawn from regions across the world. A...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers September 15-21, 2018, and includes articles about a wearable patch that can monitor blood pressure, and toolkits that can help identify bias in...
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