Center for Data Innovation

This week’s list of top data news highlights covers August 9, 2025 to August 15, 2025 and includes articles on preventing heat illness with wearable patches and detecting recycling contamination.…

Until recently, the United States was not seriously courting AI partners in the Global South. It had been warning them against partnering with China, but had not been offering a…

The Center for Data Innovation recently spoke with Anatoly Kvitnitsky, CEO of AI or Not, a California-based company using AI models to detect and recognize images, speech, videos, and other…

Climate data from Copernicus, the European Union’s Earth observation program, show that much of Europe now experiences far more days above 85 degrees Fahrenheit than it did forty years ago.…

Researchers at the University of Houston have released a Mobile Brain-Body Imaging dataset capturing brain activity of actors during emotionally intense theater scenes. Ten participants—including student actor pairs, a theater…

For centuries, creators have resisted new technologies—from photography to radio to streaming—worried these innovations would destroy their livelihoods. Today, as artificial intelligence (AI) upends the creative landscape, history offers a…

This week’s top data news highlights from August 2, 2025 to August 8, 2025 include advances in extending lithium battery life and AI-driven reconstruction of fragmented Latin texts from Ancient…

The Center for Data Innovation recently spoke with Yuval Regev, cofounder of BeeHero, a California-based company that uses AI to turn real-time sensor data into predictive insights for pollination. Regev…

The Pudding has created a visualization mapping where different words appear in the physical landscape of New York City, using data from NYC-based media artist Yufeng Zhao. Zhao fed over…

Google DeepMind and Google Earth Engine have released one of the largest publicly available datasets of highly detailed digital representations of Earth’s surface. These representations, called geospatial embeddings, provide consistent…

Researchers at Dalhousie University in Canada have released a dataset of ultrasound images from mouse brains to help train AI systems to detect tumors more accurately. The dataset includes over…

Reuters has created a visualization showing how high indoor temperatures rose inside 29 California prisons during summer 2024. It uses data it obtained through public records requests to the California…

Philadelphia recently emerged from a bruising garbage strike with neither side particularly satisfied. Sanitation workers pushed for meaningful wage increases but settled for more modest gains than they had hoped. Mayor…

This week’s list of top data news highlights covers July 26, 2025 to August 1, 2025 and includes articles on training AI to detect brain tumors and assist disoriented pilots.…

The Center for Data Innovation recently spoke with Riccardo Vittoria, co-founder of Acai Travel, a New York-based company using AI to modernize and streamline travel operations. Vittoria discussed how Acai’s…

This week’s list of top data news highlights covers July 19, 2025 to July 25, 2025 and includes articles on cleaning polluted waterways with robots and estimates the age of…

The Center for Data Innovation spoke with Vikas Karade, CEO of AlgoSurg, a company using AI driven-tools to streamline surgical planning across a range of procedures and surgeries. Karade discussed…

For too long, the United States’ role in AI leadership has been a tale of two halves. On one side is technological leadership, where American companies have undeniably led the…

Researchers at the University of Alberta have released ClimateAF, a high-resolution public database of historical and projected climate data for Africa spanning from 1901 through to the end of 21st…

The New York Times has created a pair of maps using data from NOAA and the US Geological Society to show how extreme rainfall and geology combined to produce deadly…