Center for Data Innovation

This week’s roundup of data news highlights from July 18, 2026, to July 24, 2026, features an AI system that detects wildfires before they spread and snake-like robots that can…

Researchers at the University of Oxford have created a visual showing how food consumption has changed around the world. The visual combines food-production data, waste estimates, dietary surveys, and nutritional…

Virginia-based data-labeling startup Enabled Intelligence has created a dataset built from real Ukrainian drone footage captured during the ongoing war. The collection contains more than half a million hours of…

The Center for Data Innovation recently spoke with Kelri Luks, CEO of Muun Health, an Estonia-based company developing a wearable hormone-monitoring platform. Luks explained how the company’s sensor is designed…

This week’s roundup of data news highlights from July 11, 2026, to July 17, 2026, features an AI model that helps balance water demand between agriculture and semiconductor manufacturing and…

The Center for Data Innovation recently spoke with Juha Riippi, CEO of Quanscient, a Finland-based startup developing an AI-powered engineering-simulation platform that combines cloud and quantum computing. Riippi explained how…

Researchers at the University of Western Australia have created a visualization identifying where Australia’s underexplored ancient rock basins hold the greatest potential for heavy rare-earth deposits. By combining 21 national…

Researchers at the University of Michigan have created a dataset of more than 50,000 experiments focused on carbon–nitrogen bond formation, a key step in producing many medicines. The collection offers…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the workforce, from ambient note‑taking and AI‑assisted drug discovery to automated cybersecurity testing and product design. As employers increasingly seek workers who can apply…

This week’s roundup of data news highlights from July 4, 2026, to July 10, 2026, features an AI system that repurposes skincare ingredients for new cosmetic products and a machine-learning…

The Center for Data Innovation recently spoke with Martín Nogueira, co-founder of Humara, a Spain-based company developing AI-powered software and digital twins for waste-treatment facilities. Nogueira explained how the company’s…

The Massachusetts government has launched a statewide housing data visualization that lets residents and policymakers track home construction across the state. Drawing on U.S. Census address records, the portal shows…

Researchers at the University of Barcelona in Spain have created an open archaeological dataset documenting 10,000 years of human activity in the high Pyrenees. The database compiles 124 radiocarbon-dated archaeological…

This week’s roundup of data news highlights from June 27, 2026, to July 3, 2026, features an AI-powered whale-monitoring system helping reduce vessel collisions in San Francisco Bay and a…

The Center for Data Innovation recently spoke with Olivier Begerem, CEO of Sensie, a Belgium-based company developing an attachable sensor and AI-powered platform that helps greenhouse growers monitor crop health.…

CNN has created a visualization of the Caribbean’s seismic landscape using the U.S. Geological Survey’s data to highlight major earthquakes since 1900. The map shows how the North American, South…

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara have created a high-resolution global rainfall dataset to improve precipitation monitoring worldwide. The dataset combines satellite observations with ground weather station measurements…

In February 2026, Anthropic disclosed that roughly 24,000 fraudulent accounts had bombarded its Claude model with 16 million interactions, likely to harvest its outputs for training a competing model. At…

This week’s roundup of data news highlights from June 20, 2026, to June 26, 2026, features an AI system that virtually unwrapped an ancient Roman scroll buried by Mount Vesuvius’…

The Center for Data Innovation recently spoke with Bart Voorn, founder of Ditto Care, a Netherlands-based company developing an AI-powered app that helps patients better understand medical appointments and health…