Visualize Cities’ Carbon Emissions and Solar Power Potential
Google has released the Environmental Insights Explorer, a tool that visualizes individual cities’ building and transportation carbon emissions. The tool’s maps and charts also illustrate cities’...
View ArticleAI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
In his new book, AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order, Dr. Kai-Fu Lee—a Chinese investor, business executive, and researcher—explores China’s role in propelling the...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers September 22-28, 2018, and includes articles about a pepper-picking robot and an AI system that could catch people smoking at gas stations. 1. Boosting...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers September 29 – October 5, 2018, and includes articles about an AI system that can generate realistic images and a 3D printer that uses AI to build...
View ArticleCreating Art with Data
Datavized, a company that creates data-driven software, and Google have released a free tool called Morph that allows users to make animations, designs, and interactive art with data. After uploading...
View ArticleTraining Autonomous Vehicles to Drive in Diverse Locations
Autonomous vehicle software company nuTonomy has released a dataset of over 1.4 million images called nuScenes to support research into computer vision and autonomous vehicles. The images depict 1000...
View ArticleVisualize Climate Data in Real Time
Arizona State University researchers have developed a climate data visualization tool called Polar Globe that illustrates atmospheric changes in real time. The tool also visualizes wind speed and...
View ArticleHelping AI Detect Emotion
Researchers from Singapore and North America have published a dataset called MELD (Multimodal Multi-Party Dataset for Emotion Recognition in Conversation) of audio, video, and transcription for 1,400...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers October 6-12, 2018, and includes articles about Kansas City’s smart sewer system and an initiative to give AI common sense. 1. Accelerating Parkinson’s...
View ArticleVisualizing the Rising Cost of Hurricanes
The Wall Street Journal has created several data visualizations that illustrate the rising costs of hurricanes in the United States. Maps and graphs illustrate that the populations of coastal counties...
View ArticleCompiling 10 Million Troll Tweets
Twitter has published nearly 10 million tweets from 2013-2018 that it links to state-backed information operations in Russia and Iran. Twitter connected 3,800 of the 4,500 accounts and nine million of...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers October 13-19, 2018, and includes articles about an AI chatbot that can reduce unnecessary doctor’s visits and a smartphone app helping disaster response...
View ArticleVisualizing Fake News on Twitter
The Knight Foundation, a non-profit that promotes journalism, has created a series of visualizations that use more than 10 million tweets from 700,000 Twitters accounts to visualize the distribution of...
View ArticleResearchers Are Using Drones to Help Vehicles Drive Autonomously
Aachen University researchers have released a dataset of video of more than 110,000 vehicles driving nearly 45,000 kilometers to help develop autonomous vehicles. The researchers gathered the video by...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hostlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers October 20-26, 2018, and includes articles about an AI tool that can create labeled training data and a bot that can patch code as well as humans. 1....
View ArticleVisualizing Fish Fleeing Warmer Water
Reuters has created a series of data visualizations showing that rising sea temperatures are causing sea life to move farther north and to deeper depths in the ocean to find cooler waters. The...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers October 27 – November 2, 2018, and includes articles about Google’s challenge to use AI for social good and a legal AI application better than human...
View ArticleBuilding A Public Database to Train Legal AI
The Harvard Law School Library has published a database of 6.4 million court cases to spur the development of AI applications dealing with the law. The library scanned over 40 million pages of court...
View ArticleVisualizing the “Blue Wave”
The New York Times has created several data visualizations comparing the results of the 2018 and 2016 U.S. House of Representative elections, illustrating how the supposed “blue wave,” in which many...
View Article10 Bits: the Data News Hotlist
This week’s list of data news highlights covers November 3 – 9, 2018, and includes articles about an AI system that can dress itself and new AI-focused healthcare centers opening in the United Kingdom....
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