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Data Science
What are the world's biggest islands? Here's a visualization of the top 100
A visualization designed by mapmaker David Garcia maps the 100 largest islands by size; each island in the image is colour-tinted to reflect its climate.
Climate Indicators
The role of machine learning in helping to save the planet
As our computational capacity and climate data grows, machine learning algorithms will become more sophisticated and therefore so will our projections.
Digital Inclusion
Accelerating The Equitable Use Of Data For Common Good
United States
How has the population of each American state evolved over the last decade?
Using the most recent Census Bureau data, a visualization has been created which shows how each U.S. state's population has changed over the last decade.
Latin America
Latin America could become a world leader in non-commercial open science
Fernanda Beigel from the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo makes the case that Latin America has the optimal conditions to create open science infrastructure.
Data Science
Could all your digital photos be stored as DNA?
MIT scientists are working on a more effective method of storing data using DNA, which can contain massive quantities at a very high density.
United States
COVID-19 tests rely on bacteria discovered in a natural pool in the 1960s - and it’s not the only slice of nature essential to medicine
The natural world is an important source of medicines. PCR tests for COVID-19 are only effective due to a bacteria discovered in the Yellowstone National Park.
Climate Change
Lessons learned from five years of extreme weather ‘rapid attribution’
In 2015, the WWA launched a collaboration between climate scientists in the UK, Netherlands, France and beyond, to understand the causes of extreme weather.
Biodiversity
Scientists are mapping animal migration to improve conservation
These mapping efforts are helping to create conservation solutions, in order to encourage more migration and protect the ecological health of regions.
Artificial Intelligence
The iTeam: How researchers created a group of robots that work together
The method of Distributed Local Search improves the robot team’s performance by adding or removing individual robot’s trajectories from the group’s overall plan.
JRS2021
Want to understand the extent of the world’s digital divide? Look at these 3 charts
The World Development Report 2021, Data for Better Lives seeks to highlight and address inequalities with regards to data connectivity.
United States
These maps show the extreme variations of US population density
This research visualises the rural equivalent of heavily populated areas in America such as New York, offering a different perspective of the country.
Behavioural Sciences
What is the best way to visualize human emotion?
William James originally proposed four basic emotions (fear, grief, love, and rage) which still form a considerable foundation for current frameworks.
Education, Skills and Learning
These are some of Coursera’s most popular coding courses
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the uptake of Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies. People are reskilling and technology jobs are offering better job security.
Gender Parity
Gender equality: Why pay equity isn’t enough
Research shows that many women tend to perform roles that pay less per hour than men, such as care work, education, bank tellers, bookkeeping and payroll.