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MARCH 8, 2022

When you look inside the cities around the world, you will often find familiarity to where you live. For The Washington Post, Bonnie Berkowitz, Dylan Moriarty and Hannah Dormido look for the familiarity in the attacked cities in Ukraine. cities, Ukraine feels less distant. With side-by-side comparisons to U.S.

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DECEMBER 2, 2021

In a multi-faceted piece, The Washington Post described the rapidly growing cities in Africa that are projected to be the most populated cities in the world : In three projections by the University of Toronto’s Global Cities Institute, Africa accounted for at least 10 of the world’s 20 most populous cities in 2100.

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MARCH 17, 2023

USAFacts looked at how the trend spread to other cities. Tags: Hyundai , Kia , theft , USAFacts In the middle of 2022, a popular video on TikTok, since taken down, showed how to easily start a Kia or Hyundai with a USB connector.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

The neighborhoods offered the worst deals had lower median incomes in nine out of 10 cities in the analysis. In two-thirds of the cities where The Markup had enough data to compare, the providers gave the worst offers to the least-White neighborhoods. Tags: income , Internet , The Markup.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Search for a city, and see the segments of highway in the United States that are headed that way: I set up thousands of queries to Google Maps, asking for directions from Point A to Point B and parsed its responses, looking for the text toward , signs for __, and ramp to. Tags: cities , commute , interstate , Matt Dzugan.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

Thomas, this equates to a kind of “emotional geography,” where features with greater emotional heft — the New York City skyline, say, or the Golden Gate Bridge — may take up more space. Tags: animals , Anton Thomas , illustration , New York Times There are animals the sizes of mountain ranges on my map,” he said. But you know what?

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JANUARY 13, 2023

For eight years, Liam Quigley tracked every slice of pizza he ate in New York City , which added up to 454 slices. Tags: Liam Quigley , pizza. Quigley did not rate the slices to “avoid controversy and bribes”, but I kind of wish he rated all those slices. Instead he logged the location, the price, and the type of pizza.

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AUGUST 5, 2022

As city centers heat up, people search for cooler areas. These snapshots of heat differences offer clear evidence of cooling strategies that can counteract what researchers term the “urban heat island effect,” in which city temperatures get that extra boost. Tags: Bloomberg , climate , cooling , heat.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

Aaron Williams, for The Pudding, shows upward mobility through his own experiences , moving as a child from a low-income city to a higher-income city. Tags: Aaron Williams , Pudding , upward mobility. It’s unclear what my mom meant by “better opportunities.” I like the nod to W.E.B.

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AUGUST 2, 2022

map from 2019 that showed the most notable person who lived in each city. Tags: people , Topi Tjukanov. You can also see the most notable person per category: culture, science, leadership, and sports. See also The Pudding’s U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

A reliable dense fog in San Francisco is a defining characteristic of the city, to the delight of some and less delight to others, but the pattern of fog could be on its way out as the climate changes. Tags: climate , fog , New York Times , San Francisco. That intro image is something.

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APRIL 25, 2023

I guess that’s true, but all I could think about was all the Chinese restaurants that I’ve been to, which also have similar names, even in the same city. Tags: business , cannabis , Washington Post , words People definitely are still able to pick out the good places.

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JUNE 8, 2022

The project, Noisy Cities, is an adaptation of Douïeb’s previous map of Brussels. Tags: Karim Douïeb , noise , pollution. Karim Douïeb, in collaboration with Possible, mapped noise in Paris, New York, and London. You get a good idea of what noise pollution is like geographically.

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

Knowing the impact of an asteroid falling in your city might not seem immediately relevant, but if there’s one headed toward Earth and NASA is unable to knock it off course with one of their rockets, you will definitely want to know what will happen and prepare accordingly. Tags: asteroids , Neal Agarwal , simulation.

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MARCH 24, 2022

Tags: climate , Pudding , temperature. Using data from the Applied Climate Information System, they show the number of days since a record-high temperature in hundreds of U.S. The counters are in the style of those signs in factories that show days since the last injury.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Fighting has reached 14% of municipalities, and damaged nearly half the built-up area in the hardest-hit cities. Tags: damage , Economist , satellite imagery , Ukraine , war Our study shows that rather than being limited to a few big offensives and grinding battles, the war has left a brutal mark on large swathes of Ukraine.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In the 1930s, a group called the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation went to cities classifying neighborhoods based on the “risk” of defaulting on loans. Tags: FiveThirtyEight , racism , redlining. Areas deemed highest risk were marked with red ink on a map, and these areas tended to be non-white.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Homes that had been a short walk to the shops now overlooked a six-lane highway shuttling commuters between the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Tags: Bloomberg , highway , race , urban. Homes and businesses were seized and destroyed under eminent domain. The neighborhood was split in two.

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DECEMBER 20, 2022

We often think of big cities as dirtier and more pollution-heavy. Tags: carbon , New York Times , pollution. The estimates are based on research from the University of California, Berkeley. By absolute counts, because there are more people, this is a correct statement, but from a per household point of view, the contrast is flipped.

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OCTOBER 25, 2022

These gadgets are analogous to the surveillance technologies deployed in Detroit and many other cities across the country in that they are best understood as mechanisms of control: They gather data, which are then used to affect behavior. ” Tags: Amazon , Atlantic , Chris Gilliard , privacy.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2021

For NYT Opinion, Gus Wezerek and Yaryna Serkez, made a calculator that lets you weight your priorities to find the city that fits best with how you want to live : Places can score zero to 10 points for each metric. Tags: calculator , housing , live , New York Times.

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Smart Data Collective

JUNE 23, 2019

This benefits you, and it also helps the city and community have fewer cars on the road during heavy-traffic times resulting in both convenience and less pollution. Traditional processes are being updated and more cities are working to become “smart cities”. There are expected to be 29 smart cities by 2025. Conclusion.

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Dataconomy

MARCH 5, 2024

The reasons behind the PlayStation lawsuit claim The escalation in the cost of modern gaming serves as a driving factor in this scenario, particularly with the advent of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S/X generation , where AAA titles now launch with a standard edition price tag of around $70.

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Second, a book is returned through the self-check-in system, and the system sends out a radio wave that activates the tag on the book. The tag then sends a radio wave back, which is then translated into data that identifies the book. This is an example of how smart cities are changing in response to advances in data technology.

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JUNE 8, 2023

With New York 2023 elections coming up, The City and NY1 put together a straightforward guide for information and voting history for each district. Thanks, Scott] Tags: election , NY1 , The City I want something like this for my area, a vast improvement over the paper mailers that can be difficult to navigate.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Tall buildings in dense cities can trap heat and restrict air flow, which can make living in an area really hot. So Singapore is spending a lot to cool down their cities. Tags: cooling , global warming , New York Times , Singapore It’s worse when the environment as a whole is also warming.

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AWS Machine Learning Blog

APRIL 8, 2024

However, in many situations, you may need to retrieve documents created in a defined period or tagged with certain categories. In the recently released feature for Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock, hybrid search , you can combine semantic search with keyword search. Metadata can be string, number, or Boolean. Virginia) and US West (Oregon).

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OCTOBER 23, 2023

Alternatively, this can also be accomplished through a tagging approach, but it’s worth noting that this method presents its own set of challenges. Limitation of Data Classification Table Function Tagging is a feature in Snowflake, represented as a schema-level object. Want to learn more about tags and their benefits?

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AUGUST 23, 2022

It’s getting hot in cities around the world, each city with its own set of problems. The Washington Post combined all the problems into one fictional city called Meltsville. Tags: climate , heat , Washington Post.

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Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

. – If you like *culture* and *nightlife, you can fly to **Berlin* in Germany⁶, which is a vibrant and cosmopolitan city with a rich and diverse heritage. You can also learn about the city’s history, from the Brandenburg Gate to the Berlin Wall, and enjoy the multicultural cuisine and beer.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Aaron Reiss and Oscar Molina Palestina, for The Pudding, explore the sounds of Mexico City , focusing on the street vendors and daily life. The sounds on their own probably would’ve just seemed like noise to a foreigner, but the tour through the illustrated city really helps you hear. Tags: mexico , Pudding , sound.

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OCTOBER 31, 2023

For The New York Times, Priya Krishna, Umi Syam and Aliza Aufrichtig frame strategies in the context of getting a reservation at Semma , a restaurant in New York City. Tags: game , New York Times , reservation , seating They documented their reservation quest through the service Resy. I enjoyed the pixel view and game metaphor.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

They offer a large assortment of over 50,000 products across 1,000 brands, and are operating in more than 500 cities and towns. At the time of writing this post, BigBasket has been running the complete solution in production for more than 6 months and scaling the system by catering to new cities, and we’re adding new stores every month.

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APRIL 16, 2024

MaxRetries: 2 AllowInterrupt: false - Name: "CheckInDate" Description: "Date of check-in" SlotTypeName: "AMAZON.Date" ValueElicitationSetting: SlotConstraint: "Required" PromptSpecification: MessageGroupsList: - Message: PlainTextMessage: Value: "What day do you want to check in?"

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Not only do people share their personal milestones and daily snippets here, but they also check in at various places, tag friends, and announce plans. Predictive Policing: Some cities are experimenting with AI-driven predictive policing, where algorithms analyze historical crime data to forecast where crimes are likely to occur next.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2021

It helps city planners better understand traffic patterns, which can improve road safety. The cost of this new GPS program could have a potential price tag of nearly $270 billion.

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MAY 31, 2021

The Times also analyzed census data, city directories, newspaper articles, and survivor tapes and testimonies from that time to show the types of people who made up the neighborhood and contributed to its vibrancy. Tags: New York Times , Tulsa Race Massacre.

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