Center for Data Innovation

This week’s roundup of data news highlights from September 5, 2026, to September 12, 2026, features a new virtual taekwondo competition at the Asian Games and AI-powered analysis helping Seattle…

The Center for Data Innovation recently spoke with Owen Kent, chief marketing officer of ATDev, a Pittsburgh-based company developing robotics- and AI-driven assistive technologies. Kent discussed how the company is…

The New York Times has created a visual tracking China’s first regular cargo voyage along the Northern Sea Route, an Arctic shipping route connecting Asia and Europe. The visual follows…

Researchers at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences and the University of Coimbra in Portugal have created a dataset of future weather data for more than 5,000 European locations. It…

Data centers have become a target for critics who portray them as a drain on local resources rather than an investment to improve their communities. Many of the concerns driving…

This week’s roundup of data news highlights from August 29, 2026, to September 4, 2026, features an AI-powered tool helping coordinate earthquake relief efforts and a new system forecasting threats…

Researchers at the University of Utah have used satellite-tracking data to map migration routes of booted and steppe eagles along a major migration corridor between East Asia and Africa. The…

U.S.-based robotics company Figure AI has announced a platform called Index that collects videos to train humanoid robots to perform a range of tasks. The dataset contains millions of user-submitted…

The Center for Data Innovation recently spoke with Gavin Aydelotte, co-founder of SnowCrash Labs, a San Francisco-based company developing an AI-model evaluation and routing platform. Aydelotte explained how SnowCrash Labs…

Much of the current AI debate focuses on what could go wrong. Dire headlines warn AI might displace workers, threaten privacy, enable cyberattacks, or go rogue. These risks deserve serious…

Policymakers are increasingly concerned about “frontier models,” a term meant to identify a small group of highly-capable general-purpose models that could pose unusually serious risks, such as mass casualties or…

This week’s roundup of data news highlights from August 22, 2026, to August 28, 2026, features an interactive system tracking Arctic permafrost thaw and a new program helping workers build…

The Center for Data Innovation recently spoke with Mathieu Carlier, founder of Everimpact, a France-based company developing an AI-driven platform that measures greenhouse gas emissions in real-time. Carlier explained how…

The Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany has created a visual mapping X-ray sources across roughly half the Milky Way using data from the eROSITA’s sky survey. The…

The California Department of Education has released a dataset tracking how many English learners at each school have met the criteria to become proficient in English. The data includes school-level…

This week’s roundup of data news highlights from August 15, 2026, to August 21, 2026, features AI-powered systems that could help airlines reduce climate-warming contrails and a system that uses…

The Center for Data Innovation recently spoke with Stefano Grassi, CEO of Gilytics, a Switzerland-based company providing a geospatial planning platform for infrastructure projects. Grassi explained how Gilytics uses spatial…

The Australian Museum in Sydney has released a visual that maps frog species and their geographic ranges across Australia. The latest version revises ranges for 76 species, adds newly described…

The U.S. Geological Survey has partnered with the Australian and Canadian governments to create CMiO-MIN, a dataset mapping how critical minerals occur in ore deposits worldwide. The dataset adds 13,000…

For centuries, policymakers and the public have worried that automation could replace human workers. Yet past waves of automation have done more than eliminate jobs; they have reshaped how workers…